Just thought you guys should see some California Framing.

[Kgphoto]

http://www.thisiscarpentry.com/2010/...ters-of-steel/

[d-rock]

looks like a serious P.I.T.A.

[WarriorWithWood]

Screw that, I'd sell my tools and buy an Ice Cream truck lol.

[Dick Seibert]

Dennis:

Better start selling then, the ICC is initiating a push to bring California framing nationwide to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the New Madrid earthquake in 2011

Originally Posted by Simpson Strong-Tie

Last October, the Mid-America Earthquake Center released a study entitled, “Impact of New Madrid Seismic Zone Earthquakes on the Central USA.” The report analyzes the impact of a 7.7 magnitude earthquake on the New Madrid fault region. The New Madrid Seismic Zone stretches from northeast Arkansas to southern Illinois, passing through Missouri, western Tennessee and western Kentucky. The results of the report indicate that if a 7.7 magnitude earthquake was to strike this area (which researchers believe is highly likely), the impact would be severe. They’re predicting the quake will cause nearly 86,000 injuries and fatalities, displace 7.2 million people and damage 715,000 buildings. The recent earthquake in Haiti and the 200th anniversary of the New Madrid/Missouri quakes in 2011 is prompting even more predictions of when the next big earthquake will hit the central U.S. To view the study, go to http://mae.cee.uiuc.edu/publications/2009/09-03.htm (scroll to bottom of page and click on “View Report”).¹

Time to buy stock in Simpson, they have come out with a system wherein carpenters can install the steel, if you can get your sturctural engineer to spec it.


¹ http://www.simpsonstrong-tie.com/ftp...r/SR-10-04.pdf

[Buzzy-Saw]

Unreal.

Great work and great write-up. I'll just keep shaking my head for a little while longer and then it'll be ok.

[swbuilder]

Ultra Sonic test on the steel moment frame welding? Delayed project for three months? This is a house not a nuclear reactor for godsakes.

[Dick Seibert]

Randy:

I'm going a compete steel frame in the one I'm working on, it's cheaper than wood with all they are making us do, you should start getting it in a few years so keep watching California as the ICC spreads it nationwide.

[swbuilder]

Dick,
From what I've been reading some or many of the mega mansions built 100 years ago were steel frame with poured concrete floors on all levels just like a commercial building at the time.

[Joepro0000]

we kinda have that here too, with all those clips. How about some metal framing pics?

[Mike from NH]

Considering this is a drywall forum, I don't see the relevance framing in CA has to do with drywall...

[Mark G]

Relevance? relevance? We don' need no stinkin' relavance!