Steel Bar Joists

Tyler Wells

Academy Sports Building

• The building we chose is Academy Sports. • It is located in Opelika Alabama. • Academy is a sporting goods store. • Academy is a single floor building.

• The exterior wall are constructed out of CMU blocks.

• The roof is supported by steel joist and girders. The roof is metal decking.

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Structural System

• In Academy, the Load travels from the roof, to the joists, to the joist girders, to a CMU wall.

• Once the load reaches the wall, it then travels down to the building foundation and then to the ground.

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Joist

Metal Decking

Joist Girder

CMU Wall

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Structural Change Explanation

I made this structural change because it made the joist girders smaller. By doing so, this

made them easier to work with and made the job cheaper.

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Metal Decking

Joist

Joist Girder

Column