Features & Benefits
- Comprehensive guide for structural engineers to design light-frame homes, apartments, and townhouses
- Presents a sound perspective on American housing history, construction characteristics, regulation, and performance experience
- Provides latest technical knowledge and engineering approaches to complement current code-prescribed design methods
- Assembles relevant design data and methods in a single, comprehensive format
- Reveals areas in which gaps in existing research, design specifications, and analytic tools necessitate alternative methods of design and engineering
- Instructional and simple to apply for complete design of a home