Scenario

You are employed as an assistant structural engineering in a National Engineering Design company. Your manager wants you to gain experience working in several of the company's different departments. Initially manager has placed you in the Piling Engineering section and has set you a number of tasks to demonstrate your knowledge and understanding.

Part $1-$ Wind loading

You have been provided with a plan, section and wall detail of a large residential project. You are asked to calculate:

wind loads

In addition, you are to:

discuss methods to resist$/$manage wind loads.

discuss the relationship between the building form and wind loads.

provide calculations for additional stiffening than may be required.

discuss deflection due to wind loadings, on fixed structures, and strategies to resist wind loading.