Comprehensive summary of rules and guidelines for the proper construction of wood frame buildings built to conventional construction provisions in the model building codes.
Defines the minimum requirements for heavy timber construction, and provides illustrations of good construction details.
Information pertaining to principles of design, advantages and limitations, construction details, and structural requirements for the plank-and-beam method of framing, including span and load tables.
Contains all that’s needed to design and construct tongue and groove wood roof decking, including span and load tables.
Generic load tables for wood beams and wood columns and generic span tables for high capacity floor joists and for plank and laminated floors and roofs.