Engineered Wood Construction GuideImportant Educational Downloads About Earthquake Retrofitting

Each of these documents contains technical and engineering information that we have asdfasfsda found indispensable in our designs and implementation of effective residential seismic retrofitting.  Much of the material is also on the website.

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3- Ply Plywood

Angle Irons

Appendix Chapter Retrofit Guidelins

Archaic Materials

Base Shear Formula

Bolted Homes

Brick Foundation Retrofits

Drywall shear capacity

Efflorescence

Engineer Liability

Existing Foundations

Foundation Capping

Hazards Posed by Hillside Homes

Hillside Home Retrofit Building Code

Hillside Home Article

Homeowner’s Guide to Seismic Retrofitting

International Existing Building Code

Journal of light Construction Article

Mudsill Connections Article

Plans-Sample

Plate washers

Post and Pier Houses

Retrofit Foundation Bolts-Article

Simpson Stongetie catalog

Standard Plan A

Standard Plan A Calculations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

American Plywood Association Publications

APA Blocking and Horizontal Shearwalls

APA Double_2x_v_3x_in_Joints

APA Effect of openings on shear wall

APA Green lumber effect on shearwalls

APA Nail Penetration in Shear Walls

OAPA Opinion of Retrofit Mudsill Connections

APA Effect of Overdriven Fasteners on Shear Capacity

APA Research Report 138

APA Research Report 154

ABAG Shear wall Construction Methods

APA Sheetmetal Blocking

APA Slant Nailed Shear  Walls

APA Wood Blocking and Shear Wall Design

APA Engineered Wood Construction Guide