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Changing the floor load

The new IBC now requires posting of non-removable floor load signage for each floor or portion of a floor that is designed to exceed 50psf in new construction. (Section 106.1)

Note that the Code also states that certificate of occupancy cannot be granted until those loads are posted.

It's about time that the Code makes this requirement.

INSPECTORS! TAKE NOTE!
 
RLM-Architect said:
The new IBC now requires posting of non-removable floor load signage for each floor or portion of a floor that is designed to exceed 50psf in new construction. (Section 106.1)Note that the Code also states that certificate of occupancy cannot be granted until those loads are posted.

It's about time that the Code makes this requirement.

INSPECTORS! TAKE NOTE!
106.1 Live loads posted. Where the live loads for which each floor or portion thereof of a commercial or industrial building is or has been designed to exceed 50 psf (2.40 kN/m2), such design live loads shall be conspicuously posted by the owner in that part of each story in which they apply, using durable signs. It shall be unlawful to remove or deface such notices

Still. Seems to me that the floors themselves designed for heavier use ought to be marked some way. Especially where extremely concentrated loading resulting from forklift traffic occurs.
 
It seems to me that the portions of the floor that cannot take the weight should have been posted, in the case of this forklift accident.
 
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