Assalam o alaikum,
I need to design a college building located in zone 4 with 3 stories above ground and one basement completely buried. I have never worked with shear walls before so i m very much confused about location and design consideration of shear walls. I m attaching column and shear wall tentative layout for review from the seniors. Kindly review and put your valueable comments regarding location of walls and layout of columns. I also need to understand design of structures having frame as well as shear walls. What i know is this for zone 4, it will act as dual system with R value 8.5 and I need to satisfy all the conditions of 1629.6.5 of UBC. More over also tell whether can we provide openings for windows etc in shear walls? Thanks.
To upload Model (1).pdf
To upload.dwg