
Episode 127: Rana Plaza Collapse
Well There‘s Your Problem
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The Importance of Buildings
We're going to talk about the live load and the dead load, right? So when you're engineering a building, these are the two big loads you got to think about in terms of the actual structure. The floor is the walls, the roof, structural members, anything that's the permanent part of the building is the dead load. Then you have the live load, which is everything else, which is largely supported by that people such as these Amish guys putting up this building. They should be grateful.
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