https://communities.bentley.com/products/ram-staad/f/ram-staad-forum/241881/can-soft-storey-check-result-be-ignoredHello, I am designing an existing building being retrofitted for vertical brace, I added the concrete pedestal in the model just to see the maximum node displacement result. Due to this, STAAD output now show an extreme soft storey for pedestal locationen-USTelligent Community 12https://communities.bentley.com/thread/754062?ContentTypeID=1Mon, 20 Feb 2023 09:53:26 GMT6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:95861122-a30b-4111-812d-012a136bfd1dDSANJU<p>Concrete pedestals are&nbsp; providing high lateral stiffens. You may try removing them.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/754004?ContentTypeID=1Mon, 20 Feb 2023 05:41:09 GMT6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:f5d2bcc8-be4e-459d-a456-887192aea724Marzelle Louise Gundran<p>Dsanju, thanks for the response however this is an already existing structure so I cannot change concrete pedestal or steel column sizes.&nbsp; What I can do is just add brace above the pedestal (at elev 3.2M).&nbsp; Can i just ignore the soft storey result or do i need to remove the concrete pedestal from my analysis?</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/754003?ContentTypeID=1Mon, 20 Feb 2023 05:30:33 GMT6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:db399e0a-c243-4f54-83ba-ca98099170c5DSANJU<p>You need to increase&nbsp;the lateral stiffness of the frames. You need to use higher column sections.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>