01/14/2025
Late last month, I visited 201 Fillmore, a project that we’re working on with Nucor Rebar Fabrication and Baker Construction. I thought I’d take a few shots of the unique stud rail installation they were doing that day. This is a view from ground level, looking down into what will be a five-story underground parking garage. As you can see, there are stud rails that have been installed head-down in the foundation cage.
While there are a lot of unique challenges to this project, this is a solution you don’t see very often! Despite the raft slab being 60” thick at this column, the Engineer of Record ended up needing stud rails to handle the punching shear for the vertical load. While there is a mud slab under the structural slab, there’s no place to nail chairs for the stud rails. As such, they’re hung from the top steel to maintain vertical alignment and 3” clear cover to the bottom of concrete.
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