Building Bigger with Light-Frame: Heights, Areas and Critical Details

What you’ll learn

• Evaluate construction type, occupancy, allowable height and area, and other code considerations that influence the size and configuration of mid-rise light-frame wood buildings that support code compliance.
• Identify opportunities to maximize building height and area through provisions for sprinklers, frontage, podiums, mezzanines, sloping sites to determine how allowable building height and area can be achieved while maintaining required fire and life safety protections.
• Distinguish code requirements for common interior and exterior wall conditions, including firewalls, fire barriers, fire partitions, and fire-resistance-rated exterior walls that support occupant safety.
• Apply fire-resistance and continuity requirements at floor, roof, and structural intersections to develop compliant details that maintain the integrity of required fire-resistance-rated assemblies in light-frame wood buildings.

Attendance notes

WoodWorks will send each attendee a certificate of completion within 2 weeks via email. Attendees must stay for the duration of the event to receive a certificate.