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To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (49234)	4/26/2009 12:06:55 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218584

Link please

To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (49234)	4/26/2009 12:57:09 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 218584

Le me engage in the arduous task of educating Elroy. Do not be embarassed to be educated by a school dropout whose experience derives from Angola, Nigeria and such shirtless countries. I did read construction and architectural books before building my house and as a help of building mobile networks (it includes civil works). Most US and British books. Houses are usually built using empirical designs if they are up to 35ft high. The US code allow that. Note that civil engineers don't mind much about those two-story houses since they pose no challenge. Anywhere in the world I mean. There are provisions for seismic areas 3 and 4 indeed. As it does for regions where wind loads are over 25 psf. Local codes take care of those micro-regions. But it does not mean the codes forbid brick and mortar. The code says in the case of over 35 ft the strength must not be derived from the walls. By the way I mentioned that there are pillars of concrete in my previous postings when I said how we build in Curitiba even though the earthquakes happen in Chile! The case appears to be that specifiers, designers and building contractors need to be educated in the US about masonry.