CASE STUDY REGIONS CENTER Birmingham, Alabama Architects: Welton Becket & Associates, Houston, Texas Spacesaver Area Contractor: Walter H. Hopkins Company, Atlanta, Georgia Design Criteria Concentration of 47,000 filing inches of corporate documents weighing over 95,000 lbs. into a space of approximately 965 sq. ft. Layout must anticipate weight of high-density system and some existing shelving to comply with the structure designed for a live load of 100 psf. System used must have flexibility in rail layout to distribute heavy loads within Consulting Engineer’s criteria of building safety allowances. Floor Loading Analysis Preliminary layout (Scheme 1) had rails parallel to the floor-framing beams. Floor construction under Module “A” was a 3 inch concrete slab on metal deck- i

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