Snow Load Provisions of the International Residential Code

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Snow Load Provisions of the International Residential Code

• The prescriptive method for designing snow load is more conservative than the engineered method. 
• The IRC prescriptive method allows the ground snow load to be reduced to 0.7Pg as long as the conditions of this section are met for all truss types. 
• The IBC engineered method allows certain reductions to the ground snow load per ASCE 7.

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