This article contains public email correspondence from Mr. Steve Orlowski of NAHB and is being shared to make it clear to the marketplace the extent to which politics, not science-based facts, resulted in R501.3 being drafted and adopted into the ICC's 2012 IRC.
This article summarizes correspondence between APA and SBCA, and how the code's treatment of OSB creates an artificial structural performance expectation, and therefore a competitive advantage, against competing products.
This article provides information on fire performance equivalency issues and how it pertains to 2x10s and other floor assemblies subjected to ASTM E119 fire testing.
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