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Anyone mind to share their design experience in Jeddah of KSA for the wind speed and earthquake. Any reference of their Local Standard code of practice.

Im now doing factory design in that area with very little help from their locals engineer

Advise and help very much appreciated. Tq

Use UBC 97 for calculating design wind pressure and use 90mph wind speed.
Hope this is use full for you.

use the following link to find all available saudi codes, including the code for loads (they call it no 301):

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Please note: the files below are the structural requirements of the saudi building code as submitted in feb 2008. these materials are copy righted to the national committee of the saudi building code. They are placed here for educational purposes only.

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