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  1. GabeIBC

    Florida Threshold Inspection Requirement

    Great answer Ron I appreciate your time Personally I agree with you that it is the sum of all the assembly areas but I wish there was more than a single line on this in the FBC to clarify. As an update, we coordinated with the Building Official and they deemed that it's not Threshold since each...
  2. GabeIBC

    Florida Threshold Inspection Requirement

    Hello all, We're doing a community center and trying to figure out if this building is required to be a Threshold Building which requires a special inspector. The exact language from the Florida Statute defining a Threshold Building is: any structure greater than three stories or 50 feet in...
  3. GabeIBC

    Camber WT Section for Steel Truss

    For any steel fabricators out there, I'm doing a steel girder truss with a WT section at the top and bottom chord and double angles making the webs. I would like to camber the truss (it's not a transfer beam element) and I was trying to work out how they would do it in the shop. The way I was...
  4. GabeIBC

    Pros and Cons of Finger Jointed Lumber?

    Hey everyone, long time reader first time poster here. I'm doing a 4 story multi-family apartment complex and due to the shortage in lumber from COVID-19 the contractor is asking to use finger jointed lumber (FJL) in lieu of the Southern Yellow Pine specified. (Project Location Orlando, FL)...

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