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         ST7-1.40.35.2 Extracting Resultant Forces and Moments from a Building 
         This Webnote explains how to extract actions from an entire building or portion of a building.  Four related procedures are illustrated:
   Finding the centre of mass of a building (in plan).
   Finding the centre of stiffness (the shear centre) for a particular storey of a building.
   Using staging to analyse multiple scenarios in a single model.
   Finding the resultant actions on a particular storey of a building.
   The first two procedures are particularly useful in seismic analysis because...
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