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Any purchaser of a steel building will want to know how many of the bays in the structure will have to have the added expense of bracing. There is no “hard and fast” rule but the required number of braced bays usually works out to a little less than half of the total planned bays in the building, more as wind loads increase from 70 mph. It is essential to also brace building end-walls unless a rigid end frame is engineered for future expansion of the structure.
(to be continued Wednesday … )