2017 Florida Building Code Advanced 6th Edition: Summary of Structural Provisions - Internet

This course covers the Florida Building Code (FBC) Sixth Edition (2017) that was implemented at midnight on December 31, 2017. Any permits that were applied for on January 1, 2018, would come under the Sixth Edition of the Florida Building Code. The wind load provisions of ASCE 7-10, that is The American Society of Civil Engineers, an organization of engineers that develops national standards. ASCE 7-10, the 7 denotes the standard number and the 10 denotes the year the edition was published, which would be 2010 The wind load provisions of ASCE7-10 were adopted in previous editions of the Florida Building Code, the 2010 edition and the Fifth Edition. In the Sixth Edition the same edition of ASCE 7 was adopted since there was no updated edition available,. We don't have a lot of changes to the wind load provisions themselves, although we will be reviewing some of the wind load provisions. We will not be calculating wind design pressures or anything of that nature in this course. We're going to be talking about the factors that affect those calculations. The course reviews significant changes to other structural loads of the code and summarizes the wind design and opening protection provisions of the code. These are things that have not necessarily changed but are still very important in applying the wind load provisions of the code. This course is intended for those that are familiar with the code. It's not intended to be a primer or beginning course. The intended audience are those familiar with and desiring to refresh and update their knowledge base of changes to the code that affects structural design. Any designer, contractor, supplier, inspector, plans examiner, or other person involved with building will benefit from being current with the regulations that govern their profession.