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Live load is the combined weight of occupants, furniture and snow.
According to Richard Surine, staff architect, both wings of Digman Hall were tested to a capacity of 75 pounds per square foot, nearly double the 40 pounds per square foot the current building code requires. To conduct the tests, Ryan-Biggs Associates designed an elaborate plan that involved placing shoring under the floor and at the side walls of each room being tested. A swimming pool liner large enough to fill the room was then placed in each room. Next, two and a half inches of water was added to each liner and left to sit for two hours. The process was repeated until 14 inches of water filled each liner.