Where can I obtain information on designing post frame structures (sometimes referred to as pole buildings or pole barns)?

• 1. Design values for poles (smaller at the top and buried) and piles (smaller at the bottom and driven) are in the 2005 NDS Chapter 6.
  
  2. New Post-Frame Design Manual to be published by the Technical & Research Committee of the National Frame Builders Association (NFBA).
  NFBA
  4840 Bob Billings Parkway
  Lawrence, KS 66049-3862
  Phone: (800) 557-6957
  Local: (785) 843-2444
  Fax: (785) 843-7555
  E-mail: nfba@nfba.org
  Website: http://www.nfba.org
  Order at: http://www.nfba.org/html/files/documents/New%20Order%20Form.pdf
  
  3. ASAE Post Frame Building Manual
  ISBN: 0-929355-29-6
  Phone: 800-695-2723
  Fax: 269-429-3852
  Website: http://www.asae.org
  
  4. The Midwest Plan Service publishes a Structures and Environment Handbook which address gussets in section 406.5 under Wood Truss Design. The most recent edition is a 1987 Revised 11th Edition. For ordering information, visit https://www.mwpshq.org/catalog.html
  Midwest Plan Service
  122 Davidson Hall
  Iowa State University
  Ames, IA 50011-3080
  Toll Free: (800) 562-3618
  E-mail: mwps@iastate.edu
  
  See also: Timber piles
  See also: Timber frame