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Virginia Tech and American Wood Council offers Structural Design Topics in Wood Construction
Apr-16-2018 - Apr-18-2018
Structural Design Topics in Wood Construction
April 16-18, 2018, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg
Course Credits: 15 contact hours (1.5 CEUs) by Virginia Tech
ICC Preferred Provider Course No. 13787 assigned 1.5 CEUs
Course Topics
- Durability Issues—Decay, Insects and Design for Durability
- Balcony Design Update per the 2018 IBC and AWPA Use Category Standard
- Designing Roofs and Balconies to Avoid Ponding
- Calculating Wind Loads on Low-Rise Structures per WFCM Engineering Provisions
- Residential Floor Girder and Header Design
- Design of Bolted Connections per the 2015
- Fire: Design Tools for Code-Conforming Wood Construction
- Specifying and Constructing Floors to Accommodate Ceramic Tile and Stone
- Design of Loadbearing Tall Wood Studs for Wind and Gravity Loads
- Wind Shear Wall Design Examples per 2015 WFCM and 2015 SDPWS
- Wood Truss Specification and Permanent Bracing Design
- Tall Wood Structures: Current Trends and Related Code and Standard Changes
A notebook containing course materials, the ANSI/AWC WFCM-2015 Wood Frame
Construction Manual, and a certificate for 1.5 CEU’s (15-hours) are included in the
registration fee.
For more information regarding this 3 day course visit http://www.cpe.vt.edu/sdtwc/index.html