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[Scott Maxwell <smaxwell(--nospam--at)umich.edu>]

And the answer, technically, is both.  It gets added to the level at which 
the storage occurs...which also by default adds it to the whole building's 
seismic mass.  

As local code officials requiring the whole floor to be treated as storage, 
don't confuse that with what the code actually intends.  There is nothing 
that says some entity (local code offical in this case) can require 
something more severe than what the code say...code is the minimum.  And 
the intent of the code is to use the 25% provision only where storage load 
is designed to be located.

Regards, 

Scott
Adrian, MI

...... Original Message .......
On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:24:57 -0700 "Dennis Wish" <dennis.wish(--nospam--at)verizon.net> 
wrote:
>
>My question was not originally intended to bring up the question of 
portions of a level but to question if the total storage load percentage 
was added to the entire building or only to that specific level.



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