The Development of the 2015 IRC is complete, and there's a whole package of new prescriptive codes to assist deck design.
A few weeks ago, I wrote an article describing the decisions made at the first hearing that did not receive public comment. That means they are done and done. Here is a link to that article.
When There’s No Public Comment | NADRA Blog
Now I'm back from from the Public Comment hearings and a long full day of testimony on a large variety of deck code issues, from fire separation distance to flood zones to beam spans and post sizing. Decks we're a hot topic at the hearings, and kept me quite busy. I'll post back up here when I have a summary article on the NADRA blog.
I thank the many, many professionals and organizations that constructively collaborated with NADRA and I since last year to make the IRC a more comprehensive code. I also thank those that attended the hearing to share their unique expertise. Though we did not always agree and we could not support many positions, we listened and learned from them all and hope to further develop consensus in them.
I hope many of you will be able to reference ahead in your work today and find these future codes of assistance to your work immediately. It's been a long time coming...and there's still a lot of work to do in the business of deck codes.
A few weeks ago, I wrote an article describing the decisions made at the first hearing that did not receive public comment. That means they are done and done. Here is a link to that article.
When There’s No Public Comment | NADRA Blog
Now I'm back from from the Public Comment hearings and a long full day of testimony on a large variety of deck code issues, from fire separation distance to flood zones to beam spans and post sizing. Decks we're a hot topic at the hearings, and kept me quite busy. I'll post back up here when I have a summary article on the NADRA blog.
I thank the many, many professionals and organizations that constructively collaborated with NADRA and I since last year to make the IRC a more comprehensive code. I also thank those that attended the hearing to share their unique expertise. Though we did not always agree and we could not support many positions, we listened and learned from them all and hope to further develop consensus in them.
I hope many of you will be able to reference ahead in your work today and find these future codes of assistance to your work immediately. It's been a long time coming...and there's still a lot of work to do in the business of deck codes.
