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    Agricultural No Building Permit Required

    Always has been problematic IMO, to not at least require or change the legisaltion to require an electrical permit, in light of the fact that ag structures are exempt from a building permit. This is a play on words. The electrical utilites company insofar as I know does nothing more than bring...
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    Water Circulation System

    No desire for the energy code amongst us fossil fuel dinosaurs. First thing I'd want to know is, the manfuacutres specifications for ganging tankless water heaters. Seems to me the point is hot water on demand is to be close as possible to the fixture served for energy conservation. The other...
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    Plywood subfloor intersecting 2 hr wall

    I would only add this. where have you seen a 4 story platform framed shaft being built before the floor and wall assemblies were built? When have you seen a CMU shaft built before the floor ands wall assemblies were built? I know we are not talking fire walls , but fire barriers and I would...
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    Plywood subfloor intersecting 2 hr wall

    You sound like a dog barking at the moon, whatever dude. redeyedfly, not the stellar pseudo name, besides there a nuisance around here...
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    Plywood subfloor intersecting 2 hr wall

    Smoking? Sounds a bit racist. So UL tests 60 ft tall wall assemblies 301 & 305? Don’t think it will fit in the Steiner oven. if you open your ears and mind , all I was saying is it’s beyond the tested assembly for the above designs it’s not tested in the totality of the assembly, hence the...
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    Plywood subfloor intersecting 2 hr wall

    Wind & seismic loads, but that's not the factor I was eluding too, gravity & lateral loads are always present in some form or another. uh, because the organization is over 100 years old and there is no design for stacking the same UL design 301 or 305 4 stories without an engineering judgment...
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    Plywood subfloor intersecting 2 hr wall

    understand that, But what we see the architects typically attempt to do, is to provide a draconian UL design to mimic a shaft wall with a gypsum 2 hour rated design 4 stories or 1 hr <3 stories. The question then becomes one of lateral restraint, probably not a good word to use since it implies...
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    Plywood subfloor intersecting 2 hr wall

    I think the real question to ask is, is the continuity for a shaft wall required to be self supporting of its own design or is it relying upon supporting construction, in that case a horizontal floor assembly provides the lateral restraint? If to imply the floor assembly is providing primary...
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    Plywood subfloor intersecting 2 hr wall

    Didn't want to hijack this thread with another topic, but this configuration you presented is similar and not much different than what we see the architects attempt to do to shaft walls , for stair enclosures and elevators in 4 story 5A const. R2"s. My concern has always been, how do you...
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    Service question

    Agree nothing in the code prevents that setup, can go either way. We have two electrical utilities in our neck of the woods, one requires you just to poke out the SEC out of the meter socket (aerial or underground service lateral) and the other the electrician installs to the aerial drop from...
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    Wood High Rise Construction

    In our area R2's 4 stories. curious how tall the Notre Dame cathedral was/is? With global warming and rising timber prices, a catch 22. I wouldn't count out 3D printing in some form of plant based fibrous building material going into the future. Interesting though.
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    CBO Complete

    not worth a hill of beans in the old dominion, but I must be one out of the 1,000:)
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    2015 IRC (R302.13) Fire Protection of Floors?

    I know that! just pointing out the differences in depth, same for LVL's & paralams. The residential code as you know is for the average joe or jane to build a house prescriptively with dimensional lumber...
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    2015 IRC (R302.13) Fire Protection of Floors?

    I think the equivalent of a TGI 11 7/8 is more in line with a 2 x 12 = 11 1/4 , 2x 10 9 1/4
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    HVAC calculations for GYM

    I thought 500 BTU's put stupidly put down 50, thanks, I knew It was a littler hotter than expected....
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    Code Education Economics

    Whatever happen to reading a book on the topic.....
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    HVAC calculations for GYM

    Latent heat as in lots of bodies, that is a difficult number to derive at. I think a standing body is 50 BTU's an hour...Though I agree in that environment there are lots of little things that will add up and change the numbers. I concur, ASHRAE would be the place to go.
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    Marking non-accessible entrances

    Hey now, the old dominion remains blue to its rotten core. Some locales take third party reviews, but we like live action here in the middle of the state
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    who rules in the court of law?

    correct judicial branch signing off against the executive branch of local government That is the rub, the judge signed off on a declaration that has rendered the approve construction plan null....
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    who rules in the court of law?

    Like your style. Gives me something more to think upon. For one the land was a farm, sold to a developer, developer sells to builder and builder to homeowners. All along, the thing was deemed cluster subdivision (supporting documentation and approved that way). When I asked the person whos on...
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    who rules in the court of law?

    It would be under the watch of the zoning director. it's all smoke and mirrors and the taxpayers are getting screwed, since the open land space is now private property bought on the cheap. You can't get 2 1/2 acres in Stafford for 15K.....:mad:
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    who rules in the court of law?

    I'm positive it is nonconforming to the approved plan. Don't sweat it, i'm out of my league on this one too, but it's personal so the interest in the process. Ironically the zoning department doesn't get involved with HOA's, but they approved the plan and the plan is not in conformance to the...
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    who rules in the court of law?

    No nothing, brought it to the attention of the district supervisor, fell on deaf ears..... The changes were not amended from the original approved plans
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    who rules in the court of law?

    Well doggie, pleasantly surprised that I get more hits on a topic outside of the building codes. I will have to prepare better building code questions on the next topic. So, the topic of the thread is a shot across the bow of how simple things wind up being decided in a court of law by a judge...
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    who rules in the court of law?

    synapse of the dilemma; A1 land use (farm)approved for a cluster subdivision (40% sacrificed for open land spaces) for clustering of SFD's. Site plan approved with that condition. Open land spaces were for the community and with equal access, 8' pedestrian pathways between the parcels (OLS). So...
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