Residential Building Design for High-Wind Coastal Areas

In Residential Building Design for High-Wind Coastal Areas, you'll learn ...

• The three most common primary failure modes for buildings
• The four primary structural building systems used in residential construction and their relative merits
• How to apply a load path through a building to the foundation, based on site-specific design loads
• How to calculate loads and stresses at connections and components along the load path

Overview

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Credit: 8 CPD

Length: 165 pages

This course will review the design process required for residential buildings (one to three-story) to withstand hurricanes and other severe natural hazard events.

The design process starts with determining site-specific design loads (forces), which is outside the scope of the course. For guidance on determining site-specific design loads, refer to pertinent sections of the International Residential Code.

After determining all of the site-specific design loads (forces), the process involves the following steps:

• Determining the building’s foundation, structural frame, and envelope
• Determining the connections between individual elements
• Determining the elevation, placement, and support for utilities
• Selecting the appropriate materials

In this course the design method is Allowable Stress Design (ASD), so there are factors of safety (FS) built into the development of the material stresses and the forces at the connections. This design method has been chosen because (ASD) continues to be the predominant design method in light-frame, residential, wood construction.

The course concentrates on determining the actual forces at connections and stresses on specific components, which are applied through vertical and horizontal load paths. The entire design process is based on the fundamental premise that anticipated service and natural hazard loads can and must be transferred through the building in a continuous path to the supporting soils.

Any weakness in that continuous path is a potential point of failure of the building, and any failure creates the possibility for large property losses and the potential for loss of life.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Assess which structures have the highest risk of overturning failure.
• Diagnose issues associated with why pile-supported structures are susceptible to shear failure.
• Identify the four primary structural building systems used in residential construction.
• Compare key aspects of the relative merits of platform framing, balloon framing, post-and-beam framing and concrete/masonry.
• Determine applicable criteria for how building layout and architectural shapes affect resistance to wind, flood and seismic loads.
• Apply a load path through a building to the foundation, based on the site-specific loads.
• Calculate forces at connections along the load path.
• Analyze the factors involved in calculating stresses in materials along the load path.
• Verify requirements associated with the calculation of net uplift force at each roof connection.
• Explain the calculation of overturning moment.
• Describe the calculation of sliding resistance of foundation walls and footings.
• Interpret nail and screw spacing requirements for roofing systems.
• Evaluate the factors involved in calculating forces and validate the foundation design.
• Summarize alternate load paths susceptible to failure, such as front porch uplift and lateral loads on a gable wall.
• Outline pile foundation bracing methods.
• Design breakaway wall enclosures for sheds and other structures located below the base flood elevation.
• Select appropriate approaches for the selection of mechanical connectors.
• Differentiate among alternatives associated with the relative merits of wood, steel, concrete and masonry building materials.
• Distinguish key features of fire protection, corrosion and UV-degradation considerations.
• Relate designing for windborne missiles and other building envelope breaches to applicable engineering or project decisions.
• Develop a design approach for exterior mounted mechanical equipment.
• Classify the principal elements associated with the design of decks, gazebos and other appurtenant structures.

Certificate of Completion

You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a multiple-choice quiz consisting of 60 questions. CPD credits are not awarded until the course is completed and quiz is passed.