With experience from 1993 and formed as a separate company in 1996, K2 Engineering, Inc. has specialized solely in the engineering of cold formed, cold-formed steel structures, helping builders, architects, framing suppliers and contractors, and property owners throughout Alabama, Georgia, and the Southeast in scoping, specifying, designing and erecting a wide variety of commercial, industrial, and residential cold-formed steel framing applications.

Here are some of the services which K2 Engineering offers:

• Cold-Formed steel curtainwall and in-fill design for structural steel and masonry buildings

• Load-bearing floor, joist, beam, and column framing, and shear wall framing designed to withstand ASCE 7-05 wind loads

• Composite decking and floor design (elevated concrete slab)

• Numerous, richly detailed assembly and connection drawings (in isometric view)
  
     To view a sample curtainwall construction details drawing (as a PDF file), click here.
     To view a sample building deflection accomodation details drawing (as a PDF file), click here.
     To view a sample curtainwall elevation drawing (as a PDF file), click here.
  
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• Consulting on issues peculiar to cold-formed steel framing

An interactive, on-line tool to analyze/select curtainwall studs.
An interactive, on-line tool to analyze/select load-bearing wall studs.
An interactive, on-line tool to determine Curtainwall Wind Pressures using ASCE 7-05 Methodology.

   Note: ASCE 7-05 is a publication of the American Society of Civil Engineers and is the most current definitive guide for computing Wind loads on structures.


• Consulting with building inspectors unfamiliar with cold-formed steel framing