Description

This training is being offered by Simonson Lumber, and performed by Rum River Consultants. Come learn what it is, why it matters, how to use R602.10 to design code-complaint buildings and challenging areas and paths to compliance. Lunch will be provided.

Course Details:

• What is it, and why does it suddenly matter
  • Brief history of wall bracing
  • What the code learned after recent storms
  • Why it matters examples
  • Lateral loads (wind) and they interact with a structure
• Wall bracing: how to use R602.10 to design code-compliant buildings
  • Definitions: braced wall lines, braced wall panels, braced wall line spacing
  • Compliance path using intermittent vs continuously sheathed options
  • Braced wall panel details for construction
  • How to calculate how much wall bracing is required, vs how much is provided on the plans
  • Window exposure category,
• Challenging areas and paths to compliance
  • Garage fronts
  • Tall wall: walls that exceed 12' in height (engineered wood tall walls for example) and how that can be prescriptive vs when structural engineering is required

This course will be MN-focused: and will not waste time covering seismic provisions, or some of the old bracing methods that are permitted but seldom used.