The Basics of Wood Frame Construction - American Wood Council

395 Pages·2007·8.88 MB·English

AMERICAN FOREST & PAPER ASSOCIATION
American Wood Council
Engineered and Traditional Wood Products
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MAT100: Learning Outcomes
By the end of this complete
modular eCourse, you will be
knowledgeable of:
1. IBC Chapter 23 format;
What is conventional
construction?
2. Growth characteristics of
wood; grade marks;
protection against termites &
decay
MAT 100 is a complete eCourse composed of MAT 101 through MAT 110 in
one comprehensive program for building officials on wood frame
construction basics. In each module, learning outcomes will be further
refined respectively. MAT 100 learning outcomes (see slide).
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MAT100: Learning Outcomes
3. Floor, roof/ceiling, wall
framing
4. Wall bracing, introduction to
Wood Frame Construction
Manual
5. Fireblocking & draftstopping
Refined learning outcomes
will be itemized within each
module.
MAT 100 learning outcomes continued (see slide).
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Let’s start at the beginning …
Let’s start at the beginning …
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What Was the First Building Code?
??
What do suppose was the first building code?
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What Was the First Building Code?
?
Would you guess the 1927 edition of the Uniform Building Code?
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Hammurabi’s Code
Regulated building
construction in the
Babylonian Empire
Perhaps you would guess the Laws of Hammurabi. Hammurabi’s code
regulated building construction in the Babylonian Empire.
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Hammurabi’s Code
228 – If the builder builds a
house for a man and
completes it, that man shall
pay him two shekels of silver
per sar (approximately 12 sf)
of house as his wage.
Hammurabi’s Code was very prescriptive (see slide).
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Hammurabi’s Code
229 – If a builder has built a
house for a man and his work
is not strong, and if the house
he has built falls in and kills
the householder, that builder
shall be slain.
But, Hammurabi’s Code was also performance-based as evidence by rule
229 (see slide). You might say this is the ultimate performance-based code.
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