Plan Review Notes
Plan Review Notes For Permit 08020128
Permit Number 08020128
Review Stop B
Sequence Number 5
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Date Text
2009-01-08 16:57:34BUILDING PLAN REVIEW
 PERMIT: 08020128
 ADD: 1760 PALM BEACH LAKES BLVD
 CONT: RYAN CO.
 TEL: (813)267-3281
  
 FL BLD CODE= 2004 FLORIDA BUILDING CODE
 W/ 2007 FBC REVISIONS
 * WEST PALM BEACH AMENDMENTS
  
 SUBMITTALS REVIEW:PANEL WIND LOAD CALCULATIONS
 PREPARED BY BLANEY ENGINEERING INC.
 ACTION: DENIED
  
 1) THE DOCUMENT SUBMITTED BLANEY ENGINEERING HAS BEEN
 SUBMITTED ON A FEW PROJECTS AND DENIED IN ALL
 CASES.SHEET # 6 OF THIS DOCUMENT INDICATES THE SAFE
 ALLOWABLE LOADS THAT CAN BE APPLIED TO THIS FASTENER.
 SHEET # 4 IS REDUCING THE SAFETY FACTOR OF THE FASTENER
 ITSELI.
  
 1A)NOTE # 6 FROM THE STEEL STUD MANUFACTURERS
 ASSOCIATION PRODUCT TECHNICAL INFORMATION PACKET
 INDICATES, APPLIED LOADS MAY BE MULTIPLIED BY 0.75 FOR
 WIND LOADING PER AISI A 5.1.3.
 2004 FBC 1605.3.1.1 ALSO REQUIRES THE LOAD REDUCTIONS:
 605.3.1.1 LOAD REDUCTION.
 1. IT IS PERMITTED TO MULTIPLY THE COMBINED EFFECT OF
 TWO OR MORE VARIABLE LOADS BY 0.75 AND ADD THE EFFECT
 OF DEAD LOAD. THE COMBINED LOAD USED IN DESIGN SHALL
 NOT BE LESS THAN THE SUM OF THE EFFECT OF DEAD LOAD AND
 ANY OF THE VARIABLE LOADS.
 2. INCREASES IN ALLOWABLE STRESS SPECIFIED IN THE
 MATERIALS, SECTIONS OF THIS CODE OR A REFERENCED
 STANDARD SHALL NOT BE PERMITTED TO BE USED WITH LOAD
 COMBINATIONS OF SECTIONS 1605.3.1. DURATION OF LOAD
 INCREASE SHALL BE PERMITTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHAPTER
 23.
 EXCEPTION: INCREASES IN ALLOWABLE STRESS SHALL BE
 PERMITTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH ACI 530/ASCE 5/TMS 402
 PROVIDED THE LOAD REDUCTION OF SECTION 1605.3.1.1 ITEM
 1 SHALL NOT BE APPLIED.
 3. SIMULTANEOUS USE OF BOTH ONE-THIRD INCREASE IN
 ALLOWABLE STRESS AND THE 25-PERCENT REDUCTION IN
 COMBINED LOADS SHALL NOT BE PERMITTED.
  
 1B) BEFORE THE 2004 FBC THE CODE ALLOWED A 1 1/3RD
 INCREASE IN FASTENERS. CURRENTLY ALL PRODUCT APPROVALS
 BEFORE THE 2004 FBC WENT INTO EFFECT THEY HAVE TO BE
 RE-EVALUATED TO THE 2004 FBC OR HAVE A FLORIDA PE
 RECALCULATE THE FASTENER STRENGTH.
  
 1C) IN REVIEWING COMPARIBLE FASTENERS CLARK AND WESTERN
 HAVE VALUES OF 177 LBS FOR SHEAR AND 84 LBS FOR TENSION
 # 10 SCREW 33 MILS/ FY (KSI) 33
 DIETRICH VALUES OF 151 LBS FOR SHEAR AND 75 LBS FOR
 TENSION # 10 SCREW 33 MILD/ FY (KSI) 33
  
 1D) SSMA SCREW TABLE NOTES# 4, SCREW STRENGTH NEEDS TO
 BE VERIFIED BY THE SCREW MANUFACTER. WE HAVE FOUND SOME
 OF THE TIMES THE FASTENERS ARE IMPORTS AND TESTING HAS
 NOT BEEN COMPLETED
 BECAUSE OF INCONSISTEANCEY OF THE YIELD STRENGHT OF THE
 METALS OR ALLOYS.PLEASE PROVIDE THE ACTUAL SCREW
 MANUFACTURERS VALUES FOR SHEAR AND TENSION.
  
 1E) BLANEY ENGINEERING HAS BEEN CONTACTED BY THIS
 OFFICE BY SAMANTHA HILL AND IS AWARE THAT THE VALUES OF
 THE FASTENERS WILL NEED TO BE THE MANUFACTURERS VALUES,
 THAT YOU DO NOT INCREASE BUT DECREASE VALUES BECAUSSE
 OF COMBINED LOADING OF VERTICAL LOADS, GRAVIRTY LOADS
 AND HORIZONTAL LOADING THAT MAY OCCUR AT THE SAME TIME.
  
 WALKER ENGINEERINGPAGE 6 OF 31
  
 2) PLEASE PROVIDE WHERE THE VALUES FOUND ON PAGE 6
 SCREW ALLOWABLE PULLOUT WAS DERIVED FROM. THERE IS
 ASSUMPTION OR UNKNOWNS THAT DO MAKE A DIFFERENCE ON THE
 VALUES PRESENTED OR THAT WERE NOT STATED.
  
 2A) THE BASE METAL THICKNESS (GAUGE) THE FIRST UNKNOWN
 IS WHAT TYPE OF METAL ARE WE WORKING WITH FOR THE BASE
 METAL, STEEL, GALVENIZED STEEL, STAINLESS, ETC AND ON
 THE VALUES OF FY/ FU.
  
 2B) AS STATED ABOVE IN THE FIRST SECTION THE ALLOWABLE
 WORKING STRENGTH OF THE MATEIALS TO BE FATTACHED
 TOGETHER AND THE SCREW TO SEE WHAT IS THE WEAKEST VALUE
 THAT CAN BE USED, SINCE THIS WILL BE THE FAILURE POINT.
  
 3) UNDER THE WALKER ENGINEERING REPORT PAGE 2 THE
 DOCUMENT REFERENCES THE 2007 FBC, THIS IS INCORRECT,
 SHOULD READ THE 2004 FBC WITH 2007 SUPPLEMENTS.
  
 4) WALKER ENGINEERING REPORT PAGE2 ASCE 7-05 IS
 REFRENCED THE 2004 FBC CHAPTER 35 ONLY REFRENCES THE
 ASCE 7-02 VERSION PLEASE CORRECT.
  
 JIM WITMER C. B. O.
 BUILDING PLAN REVIEW II
  
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 E-MAIL: [email protected]
  
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 THEREFORE SUBJECT TO PUBLIC DISCLOSURE.
  
  


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