Tuesday, November 20, 2007

RE: Wind Uplift on Footings

2006 IBC and I believe 2007 CBC addressed this in Section 1605.3.1 equation 16-14. You only use 0.6 DL in combination with wind loads. No more 1.5 FS but 1/0.6 = 1.66.

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