SSM St. Clare Health Center is a 420,000 square foot hospital located in a residential area of Fenton, Missouri. The building’s site was previously a golf course, and the combination of sub-par soil conditions and proximity to the New Madrid fault line make the site a seismic design category D.
Structurally, the hospital is a composite steel frame building resting on massive concrete drilled piers which are connected by grade beams. The structure is broken up into several smaller buildings isolated by construction joints. These individual buildings each contain their own lateral force resisting systems which include special moment frames (SMF), special concentrically braced frames (SCBF), special reinforced concrete shear walls (SRCSW), and ordinary concentrically braced frames (OCBF).
The building was designed in 2004 and uses the 2003 Edition of the International Building Code and ASCE 7-02 as a reference standard. Design loads were determined based on these codes, additional St. Louis County Codes and Ordinances, and practical engineering judgments.
Purpose
This report provides a detailed description of the existing structural systems in SSM Health Care Center. The knowledge documented here will serve as a building block for subsequent technical reports, which require more in-depth investigations of systems in particular.
Scope
The major sections of this document discuss framing system elements, load determination, and connection design. The report expands on these major categories with more detailed discussions on individual building elements including typical bays, columns, lateral resisting elements, and secondary structural elements such as canopies. Relevant code requirements are also discussed. Note that Appendix A contains the structural engineering team’s design routine notes for all building elements listed above (which provide a succinct overview of all code requirements and design strategies).
Details
| Title | SSM – St. Clare Health Center - Technical Assessment Report |
| Pages | 35 |
| Language | English |
| Format | DOCX |
| Size | 1 MB |
| Download Method | Direct Download |
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