A friend of mine was thinking of building a two storage building garage/storage.
He building it for LONG term storage. So he was thinking of instead of using the standard steel beams and trussed type design.
Of using pour in place
http://www.liteform.com/ for the roof. You can pour than up to 23 feet in length before you have do post tension on it.
He wanted to use 8 block walls reinforced with 5/8 steel down each cell of the block. Plus, wire mesh on every other block row. Would that be strong enough to hold up the weight. Ceiling weight will be 5 inches of normal weight concrete and steel reforcing bars.
The design would be simple. One section would be for the garage. The other section would be for secure storage. Instead of a steel beam in the middle we wanted to build another block wall to hold up the roof section in the middle.
I told him to leave out the middle section of block and put in a steel beam design.
Want do you all think of design?
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