Start Time: 8:00 am PT, 10:00 am CT, 11:00 am EST End Time: 11:00 am PT, 1:00 pm CT, 2:00 pm EST
0.3 ceus/3 contact hours
Description
This course is a three-hour webinar based on the 2006 International Residential Code (IRC). Concentrating on wind load, prescriptive and engineered lateral supports, the eight common bracing methods as well as alternative bracing methods required by provisions in the IRC.
Instructor
Robert J. Schutz, P.E., P.S., CBO Robert J. Schutz, P.E., P.S., CBO is currently an ICC Senior Technical Staff member in the Product Development department responsible for the innovation, coordination and assembling of new products including textbooks, training aids and reference materials. Bob has just returned to ICC after service as an Assistant Architect Administrator at the Ohio Board of Building Standards. While with the State of Ohio, he had oversight of the new Residential Code of Ohio program, including certification of local residential code departments and personnel. Previously, Bob served ICC as Manager of Instructors with responsibilities for the selection, oversight and quality of ICC's cadre of staff and contract instructors. His varied previous experiences include active military service during the 1980's as an Army Corps of Engineers (ACE) officer; building code enforcement for several central Ohio jurisdictions, including ten years as Chief Building Official (CBO) for the City of Powell where he also served as City Engineer and Director of Public Services; and Chief Engineer,for the Ohio Department of Health where he chaired the state's plumbing advisory board, was chief of plumbing and was a voting member on the Ohio Board Buildinbg Standards. He is experienced in combat construction, facilities engineering and project management as well as having been a plumber, sheet metal worker and brick mason.
Mr. Schutz has a civil engineering degree from Ohio Northern University with post-graduate studies at the University of Southern California and The Ohio State University in environmental law, land-use planning and public administration. He is a registered Professional Engineer and Professional Surveyor, certified Chief Building Official and holds Ohio certifications as Building Official, Plans Examiner, and Inspector for Building, Plumbing, Electrical Safety and Residential. Bob instructs IBC structural and nonstructural seminars, all IRC subjects, mechanical, plumbing and fuel gas codes and administrative topics.
Robert J. Schutz, P.E., P.S., CBO is currently an ICC Senior Technical Staff member in the Product Development department responsible for the innovation, coordination and assembling of new products including textbooks, training aids and reference materials. Bob has just returned to ICC after service as an Assistant Architect Administrator at the Ohio Board of Building Standards. While with the State of Ohio, he had oversight of the new Residential Code of Ohio program, including certification of local residential code departments and personnel. Previously, Bob served ICC as Manager of Instructors with responsibilities for the selection, oversight and quality of ICC's cadre of staff and contract instructors. His varied previous experiences include active military service during the 1980's as an Army Corps of Engineers (ACE) officer; building code enforcement for several central Ohio jurisdictions, including ten years as Chief Building Official (CBO) for the City of Powell where he also served as City Engineer and Director of Public Services; and Chief Engineer,for the Ohio Department of Health where he chaired the state's plumbing advisory board, was chief of plumbing and was a voting member on the Ohio Board Buildinbg Standards. He is experienced in combat construction, facilities engineering and project management as well as having been a plumber, sheet metal worker and brick mason.
