Getting a storage area load rated?

[gordyzx9r]

One of the warehouses I work with has a set of offices in it. At some point in time over the years, someone put in an overhead storage area on top of those offices. OSHA requires that this area has a load rating in order to be used as storage. Just throwing this out there in case any one has ever had to do this so I can get an idea of which direction to go.

 

[ijames]

We had to do this several years ago at work, too. The company owner hired a local architect who came in and measured the beams and decking and then calculated the load rating. It was actually good in our case because we were overloading it without realizing it. We added a couple of steel I beams on steel posts and that got the load rating up where we needed it. There are programs available online to do these kinds of calcs but OSHA (actually Maryland OSHA in our case) required a licensed architect to bless the numbers.

 

[Silver Fox]

GORDY,

Hire an engineering firm to accomplish this for you.

Rob