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brace walls

  1. classicT

    Mixing the IRC and IBC

    When the local draftsman cannot figure out a conventional brace wall layout and kicks the design off to an engineer for a lateral design, what are you willing to accept? Do you accept just the lateral design (i.e. no foundation plan)? I've got a plan where the engineer only performed the lateral...
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