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