Frame for Success: How to Avoid Callbacks

Thursday, January 21 | 8:00 - 9:00 AM
Location: South 232

Format: Building Knowledge Session 
Level of Content: Novice 

Appropriate for: Designers, Architects, Engineers & Planners, Subcontractors & Specialty Trade Contractors, Single Family - All

Track(s): Building Science, Performance & Systems

Speaker(s): Karyn Beebe, APA, San Diego, CA

What It’s About:
This session will examine the most common wood framing and sheathing errors found in construction today and provide practical solutions for avoiding them. Topics of discussion will include: buckled sheathing, squeaky floors, checked beams, oversized holes, and connection dos and don'ts. Findings and discussion will be based on hundreds of job site inspections performed by APA – The Engineered Wood Association.

What You'll Learn:
Define the five key wood properties for framing for success.
Identify the common framing mistakes in roof, wall and floor construction. 
Utilize available construction resources to address the challenges facing today's wood builder. 
Understand the differences in engineered wood products (plywood, OSB, glulam beams, LVL, Ijoists) and how they work together for a complete structural system.

Continuing Education: NAHB - 1.00 CE hour(s), NKBA - 0.1 CEU(s), AIA - 1.00 LU hour(s)