Thanks for looking this over. I'm a little nervous about how profound this could be. Feel like I'm starting a race war between SE's and the PEMB industry.
Rabbit12 - On shop drawings, the purlin gage actually changes across the building depending if it's an interior vs exterior bay. Not sure...
I've spent 25 years as a structural engineer designing just about every type of commercial and industrial buildings. These buildings include PEMB's. While I've never designed a full PEMB, we have specified hundreds of them and provided the foundation design to support them. One question is...