Residential Codes (IRC)

Good Information Leads to Good Decision-Making

SBCRI Testing & SBCA Research Reports can transform your market.

Reevaluating Your Investment Strategy

  • A lot has changed in the components industry over the past two decades, and a new Framing the American Dream (FAD) project would allow us to quantify just how much, as well as detail our product’s benefits over other framing methods.
  • Beyond FAD, SBCA is also focusing on helping component manufacturers across the country fight an unfair provision in the model building code, R501.3.
  • As you think about investing in the future of your business, think about how much you’re willing to invest this year in these two projects to ensure a bright future for our industry.

Become the “Go-To” Person in Your Market

  • Component manufacturers have to be proactive locally in pursuing those outside the industry, including building officials, members of the fire service, specifiers, framers and lawmakers.
  • It’s not hard to put a value on having eyes and ears like theirs in the market, when they are willing to look out for your business while they’re doing their jobs.
  • The more smoothly the installation of CM products goes, the less issues we have to confront in the field and the less we have to overcome challenging building code provisions, the more builders will want to buy and install our products.

Installation of Interior Gypsum Board Finish

Gypsum wallboard provides an excellent example as to
why accurate design values are so vital to structural design.

Introduction: Why the Interior Finish Installation Is Important

Seismic Design Coefficients: How they are determined for light-frame components Part 2

More on why Seismic Design Coefficients (i.e., factors) are important to engineering innovation

Installation & Fastening of Wood Structural Panel Wall Bracing

  • Use of galvanized box nails may result in shear walls with a shear capacity significantly below the nominal unit shear capacities given in SDPWS.
  • Thus, the majority of WSP shear walls have a shear capacity with a high degree of design value variability. This may have unintended consequences that are unknown and unappreciated by the professional engineering and/or building design community.
  • Once SBCA and SBCRI were certain their testing and engineering analysis was consistent and repeatable, they were persistent in bringing all WSP shear wall performance issues to the attention of APA, AWC, ICC-ES and ICC.  

Parting Shots

Affecting more than 20 states, the scope of Hurricane Sandy, and the rebuilding efforts underway and yet to come, are difficult to imagine.

Building Codes, Building Relationships

From BCMC 2012 Educational Session: “Changing Codes & Planning Ahead”

Sealed Code Compliance Reports: A Law-Abiding, Streamlined Alternative

When it comes to code compliance for your new product, consider a road less traveled that can be much quicker and more robust than the traditional path.

Revisiting the Top Resources for Your Technical Library

  • Every component design department should have a small reference library of important technical documents.
  • It is generally best to make sure your designs conform with the most current versions of the IBC and IRC.
  • However, building code adoption is at the discretion of the authority having jurisdiction.