American Wood Council Design for Code Acceptance Publications

Design for Code Acceptance Publications

Fire Section

DCA 1 - Flame Spread Performance of Wood Products
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Provides building code accepted flame spread ratings for various wood products and species which are normally used as interior finishes for walls, ceilings, and floors in buildings.

DCA 2 - Design of Fire-Resistive Exposed Wood Members
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Illustrates how exposed heavy timber and glued laminated columns and beams can be designed to meet building code fire resistance requirements.

Also see TR10 - Calculating the Fire Resistance of Exposed Wood Members.

DCA 3 - Fire Rated Wood Floor and Wall Assemblies
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Describes how interior and exterior wood-frame walls and wood I-joist floors can be used to meet building code requirements for fire resistive assemblies. Additional information:

-	Calculating the Superimposed Load on Wood-Frame Walls
-	Performance of Finger-Jointed Lumber in Fire-Resistance-Rated Wall Assemblies
-	Additional assemblies not shown in DCA 3 - 2005 ASD/LRFD Manual for Engineered Wood Construction Chapter M16.

DCA 4 - CAM for Calculating and Demonstrating Assembly Fire Endurance
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Describes a procedure to calculate the fire endurance rating of a wood-frame wall, roof, or floor/ceiling assembly. The procedure is based on combining previously determined fire resistance time values of each separate component of the assembly without the need for additional fire testing. Additional information:

-	Fire Resistance of Wood Members with Directly Applied Protection

Structural Systems Section


	*DCA 5 - Post-Frame Buildings* Free Download - HTML PDF Provides guidance to post-frame building designers for meeting the requirements of the 2000 International Building Code and to confirm that a properly designed post-frame building is in fact code compliant.

	DCA 6 - Prescriptive Residential Deck Construction Guide - 2009 IRC Version Download Free PDF 4.3MB Includes guidance on provisions of the International Residential Code (IRC) pertaining to single level residential wood deck construction. Provisions contained in this document that are not included in the IRC are considered good practice recommendations. Building officials may print a reasonable number of copies of DCA 6 for use with permits. AWC also offers a free Design Professional Membership to qualified building officials. For more information on this and other benefits, click on the “How to Join” link here.