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Lateral Loading 101: How Buildings Stay Standing Side-to-Side

Lateral Loading 101: How Buildings Stay Standing Side-to-Side

June 30, 2025
Lateral loading is often the main focus of designing a secure and stable structure. It is also the hardest to understand and the most commonly overlooked by architects, contractors and homeowners. Once the lateral load is determined the actual design of the elements are very similar, except in high seismic…

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