Wind Loads on Irregular Buildings

The ASCE 7 Standard provides prescriptive provisions for determining wind loads on regular shaped buildings. Practitioners are tasked with designing a wide variety of building structures, that don’t always fit exactly within the provisions of the standard. This session will provide guidance on applying the wind provisions to a variety of building shapes and components by understanding how wind pressures and pressure coefficients relate to wind flow around a building. Additional design guides will be discussed, and examples will be presented. This presentation was developed by the NCSEA Wind Engineering Committee.

• Course will award 1.25 hour of continuing education
• Diamond Review approved in all 50 states
• This webinar will be recorded.

Please note: This webinar is part of the NCSEA Webinar Subscription.

Speakers:

Todd Clapp, P.E., S.E., is a Project Engineer at Martin/Martin Consulting Engineers in Lakewood, Colorado. He has worked on a variety of project types from sports arenas and recreation centers to exterior cold-formed steel specialty design that have given him a unique perspective on wind loading on irregular structures. He is a member of the NCSEA Wind Engineering Committee and represents the Structural Engineers Association of Colorado (SEAC).

John O’Brien, P.E., S.E., is the Director of Engineering at PES Structural Engineers in Atlanta, GA with nearly 20 years of structural design experience. John is the Chair of NCSEA’s Wind Engineering Committee and a voting member of the ASCE 7 Wind Loads Subcommittee.

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