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archives design
Our Diocese recently acquired an historic building in downtown Houston, the
first floor of which will be converted into a chapel. The Archives is
supposed to move into the top three floors. The building was largely
unoccupied for years, and there's been a lot of deterioration. The design
firm/architects (who for complicated reasons aren't working directly for
the Diocese) have assured me that the upper floors "should" bear a load of
50 pounds per square foot. They informed me that I can therefore have two-
shelf units to store our records, without overloading the floors. I
informed them in return that two-shelf units are completely impractical in
an archives, and that the floors should bear much more than 50 pounds (we
estimated a minimum of 130 pounds).
Does anyone have design specifics for their facilities, particularly floor-
loading requirements, that they'd be willing to share? I checked the
archives for this topic, but I found mostly discussions of layout & of
things like carpet vs. tile. The publications I've checked also tend to
focus on those aspects.
thanks in advance,
Lisa
Lisa May
Archivist
Diocese of Galveston-Houston
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