- Author
- DiLenardo, B.
- Title
- Making Engineered Wood Joists Easier to Use.
- Coporate
- National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
- Journal
- Solplan Review, No. 112, 14-15, September 2003
- Report
- NRCC-47355,
- Keywords
- joists | wood | lumber | adhesives | walls | wooden structures
- Identifiers
- Canadian Construction Materials Centre (CCMC); I-joists; open-web joists; engineered wood joists and related products; engineered wood joist vibration criteria; rimboards; interior bearing wall offsets with I-joist floors: standard detail solution on its way
- Abstract
- Engineered wood joists and structural composite lumber have greatly changed the way wood-frame buildings are constructed because they provide greater strength and longer spans, among other advances. In an effort to make such products easier for designers and builders to use, the Canadian Construction Materials Centre (CCMC), working with the Canadian Wood Council, manufacturers and others, has assembled test protocols and criteria, and validated manufacturers' span tables for engineered wood joists, thus eliminating the need for further project-specific engineering for small buildings. As part of this work, vibration criteria were also established.