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Seismic Design of Wood Mid-Rise Light-Frame Residential Construction Webinar
September 17, 2019 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Codes and standards are easy to interpret for box-type structures, but not for the recent advances in wood mid-rise construction, such as increased heights and stories, openings, and irregularities. This web seminar will discuss those tough-to-handle code issues facing designers today, including:
- How to deal with penetrations and openings in diaphragms and shear walls
- Negotiations to resolve the “wall vs opening” battles
- The rigid, flexible, or semi-rigid diaphragm question
- Open front structures, cantilevered diaphragms, and blocking of diaphragms
- Horizontal and vertical irregularities
- Seismic joints and when they are required
- Building drift, shear wall, and diaphragm deflections: importance and advice on how to compute relatively simply