codes & standards High-Wind and Seismic Issues for Wood-Frame Construction An Overview of the 2001 ANSI/AF&PA Wood Frame Construction Manual for One- and Two-Family Dwellings By Scott Lockyear, P.E. Over the last 20 years, building construction regulators and insurance underwriters have increasingly questioned whether existing prescriptive code provisions for conventional wood-frame construction are technically justified. Such concerns with conventional construction are largely the result of damage to wood-frame structures by hurricanes and earthquakes in the 1980s ...
Announcing an American Wood Council and Virginia Tech short course on Prescriptive and Engineering Design per the 2012 Wood-Frame Construction Manual Photo: Courtesy of APA – The Engineered Wood Association September 24-26, 2014 The Hotel Roanoke and Conference Center Roanoke, Virginia www.cpe.vt.edu/sdww Sponsored by American Wood Council and Virginia Tech Continuing and Professional Education Who Should Attend New Prescriptive Residential Wood Deck Construction Guide (DCA The primary audiences for this course are: 6 – 2012 IRC Version) ...
Changes to the 2018 Wood Frame Construction Manual John “Buddy” Showalter, P.E., Bradford K. Douglas, P.E., and Philip Line, P.E. Introduction The 2018 Edition of the Wood Frame Construction Manual (WFCM) for One- and Two-Family Dwellings, designated ANSI/AWC WFCM-2018, is approved as an ANSI American National Standard (Figure 1). The 2018 WFCM was developed by the American Wood Council’s (AWC) Wood Design Standards Committee (WDSC) and is referenced in the 2018 International Residential Code (IRC) ...
Applied Building Construction 2021-22 Textbook List Course Text/Materials Author Publisher Edition ISBN Price Term Course # Course Name Carpentry 3CE Textbook and 9780176570422 rd FA CPWW-0031 Hand Tools Vogt ATS 3 $233.25 Workbook 9780176768560 FA CPWW-0005 Wood Frame Construction National Building Code 2015 NRCC NRCC Latest $89.75 FA WRKP-0030 Construction Safety Rigging Modules NAIT ALBAP $31.25 WSH Act & WSH Regulation MCSA MCSA Latest $10.00 Manual WHMIS Handbook (2015) MCSA MCSA Latest 9781894359450 $11.25 ...
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