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Six Storey Wood Frame Buildings in BC

Six Storey Wood Frame Buildings in BC

Six Storey Wood Frame Buildings in BC

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In May of 2008, Minister Rich Coleman announced government's intention to increase the maximum height for wood-frame residential construction from four to six storeys. These new BC Building Code requirements were approved in January 2009 and become effective April 6, 2009 giving the residential construction sector time to prepare for implementation.

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http://www.housing.gov.bc.ca/building/wood_frame/




This is old news for some, but I am curious as to how everyone feels about 6-storey timber structures.

Clansman

If a builder has built a house for a man and has not made his work sound, and the house which he has built has fallen down and so caused the death of the householder, that builder shall be put to death." Code of Hammurabi, c.2040 B.C.

RE: Six Storey Wood Frame Buildings in BC

It would be very difficult, depending on the Architectural layout, but doable is he is reasonable about structure, and Fire constraints.

Mike McCann
MMC Engineering

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