Industrial Steel Building Design

4 Sessions

This course, delivered in 4 sessions focuses on practical and economical solutions for framing a typical industrial steel building to the requirements of the 2020 National Building Code of Canada (NBCC) and the pertinent provisions of CSA Standard S16-19 (S16). The course material will reference the new fourth edition of the Crane-Supporting Steel Structures: Design Guide and feature design examples. 

This course also has the following goals:

• Identify the unique environmental and mechanical loading conditions in industrial steel buildings
• Learn the applicability and limitations of current codes and standards in Canada, with a comparison to other jurisdictions
• Select the most cost-effective framing schemes
• Tips for cost-effective design
• Design crane-supporting girders, stepped columns, purlins and girts, lateral force resisting systems, roof trusses and efficient connections
• Understand serviceability considerations and limitations
• Design for high and low temperatures
• Learn the implications of seismic provisions for these structures

 Other topics include fatigue, standing seam roofs, rehabilitation, tolerances, and coatings.