[NHCOLL-L:2796] RE: bolting down museum cases

[Demouthe, Jean]

We went around with this after our recent move to downtown S.F.   You should
check the building code yourselves...do not rely on an outside party to do
it.  Particularly if this outside party gets the work of bolting down the
cases.

 

Even here in earthquake-prone California we were not required to bolt down
the cases if they were under 6 feet in height.  Over that, they could be
strapped together at the top to form stable blocks that could not tip over.

 

Jean DeMouthe

 

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Dr. J.F. DeMouthe

Senior Collections Manager for Geology

California Academy of Sciences

875 Howard Street

San Francisco, CA  94103

phone: 415-321-8258

e-mail: jdemouthe at calacademy.org

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nhcoll-l at lists.yale.edu [mailto:owner-nhcoll-l at lists.yale.edu] On
Behalf Of Jean-Marc Gagnon
Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 6:13 AM
To: 'gwshugart at hotmail.com'; nhcoll-l at lists.yale.edu
Subject: [NHCOLL-L:2795] RE: bolting down museum cases

 

This has not been the case for us at CMN, except for cabinets on compactor.
In this case, we use metal bars that run along the top of the cabinets
(vertical) and are anchored to the compactor base (or floor in your case) by
vertical bars. Making all of this hardware removable provides relatively easy
access to the cabinets if you need to move them, and avoid drilling through
the cabinets.

Let me know if you want pictures of our setup. 

Jean-Marc 

Jean-Marc Gagnon, Ph.D. 
Chief Collection Manager / Gestionnaire en chef 
Invertebrate Collections (and Interim for Vertebrates) / Collections des
invertébrés (et vertébrés par intérim) 
Canadian Museum of Nature / Musée canadien de la nature 
P.O. Box 3443, Station D / Boîte postale 3443, Succ. D 
Ottawa, Ontario 
CANADA   K1P 6P4 
  
Tel.: 613-364-4066 
Fax / Télécopieur:  613-364-4027 
e-mail / courriel: jmgagnon at mus-nature.ca 

-----Original Message----- 
From: Gary Shugart [mailto:gwshugart at hotmail.com] 
Sent: August 22, 2005 10:35 PM 
To: nhcoll-l at lists.yale.edu 
Subject: [NHCOLL-L:2793] bolting down museum cases 

Hi all:  Architects are telling us that our museum cases, stacked two high 
(VACs and wooden 2x4x4 ft), need to be bolted to the floor as per building 
code.  Just wondering if anyone has been required to bolt cases to the 
floor?  And if not, did you have to deal with building  codes?  This is in 
new construction. 

Gary Shugart 
Collections Manager 
Slater Museum of Natural History 
University of Puget Sound 
Tacoma, WA 98416 
253 879-3356 (museum) 
gshugart at ups.edu, gwshugart at hotmail.com 

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