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Wall load has to be added when you are calculating loads on beams and How do I apply wall load on flat slab?

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You have to add ALL loads when doing column & beam design, including the
lateral loading from seismic events and wind loads, when impacts the lower
structural members because of the weights from above.

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yes compulsory. Even as the ground floor will not have beams and slab, Plinth
beam is designed only for wall loads

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Sudip Sapkota, Completed Civil Engineering from TU university, Nepal.

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Yes. It is very much compulsory to add wall load.

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