In this post I am going to talk about metal stud walls in a building in Rochester Hills Michigan. I was contacted by John Sinko of Modern Drywall Inc to provide structural design clacs for a number of walls in a building in Rochester Michigan. The walls consist of 20 Ga 6" metal studs with 5/8" drywall on each side. The walls are upto 18 ft high, and most of the wals are braced on top.

I am dealing here with walls that are already installed. On Mar-28-2007 I visited the site with John Sinko to look at the as-built configuration of the walls -- most of the walls are braced on top to the steel roof joists some 23 ft above the floor level.

As you will see in some of the pictures I am going to post that there is one wall that is only 10 ft high -- the top of the wall is too low to be braced to the roof joists overhead -- this wall was provided with 3" square tubes at nominally 8 ft c/c -- this helped me consider qualifying these walls as free standing.

For the same building I talked about Light-Gage-Metal-Framing-for-Select-Appurtenances_Building-in-Rochester-Michigan the oyster in my post of Feb-27-2007.

So, let us look at some pictures of the as-built configuration of the metal stud walls.

Light-Gage-Metal-Stud-Walls_Building-in-Rochester-Michigan--Picture 1
Here is a shot of the as-built metal stud wall braced on top.




ANAND Enterprises project ModD1-102 Light-Gage-Metal-Stud-Walls-Structural-Design-Calcs_Building-in-Rochester-Michigan

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Light-Gage-Metal-Stud-Walls_Building-in-Rochester-Michigan--Picture 2
Here is a shot of the as-built metal stud wall braced on top.




ANAND Enterprises project ModD1-102 Light-Gage-Metal-Stud-Walls-Structural-Design-Calcs_Building-in-Rochester-Michigan

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Light-Gage-Metal-Stud-Walls_Building-in-Rochester-Michigan--Picture 3
Here is a shot of the as-built metal stud wall braced on top.




ANAND Enterprises project ModD1-102 Light-Gage-Metal-Stud-Walls-Structural-Design-Calcs_Building-in-Rochester-Michigan

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Light-Gage-Metal-Stud-Walls_Building-in-Rochester-Michigan--Picture 4
Here is a shot of the as-built metal stud wall that is only 10 ft high.




ANAND Enterprises project ModD1-102 Light-Gage-Metal-Stud-Walls-Structural-Design-Calcs_Building-in-Rochester-Michigan

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Light-Gage-Metal-Framing-For-Ring--Picture 5
Here is a shot of the finished ring for the same building about which I talked about in my post of Mar-01-2007.




ANAND Enterprises project ModD1-102 Light-Gage-Metal-Stud-Walls-Structural-Design-Calcs_Building-in-Rochester-Michigan

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