Wood-Frame Failures During Construction
Wood-Frame Failures During Construction
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Looking to start a discussion on failures of wood-frame buildings that occur during construction. Have heard of a few incidents in Canada recently. The first appears to have been due to improper temporary diagonal bracing on the truss chords:
http://www.lfpress.com/2017/10/13/its-not-clear-wh...

The second failure is less clear; these townhomes were nearly complete and failure appears to have initiated in the walls:
http://regina.ctvnews.ca/overnight-winds-blow-down...
Does anybody have knowledge of these failures or similar cases? Who is usually found to be at-fault in insurance claims? Is there a design wind speed used in specification of temporary bracing?
http://www.lfpress.com/2017/10/13/its-not-clear-wh...

The second failure is less clear; these townhomes were nearly complete and failure appears to have initiated in the walls:
http://regina.ctvnews.ca/overnight-winds-blow-down...
Does anybody have knowledge of these failures or similar cases? Who is usually found to be at-fault in insurance claims? Is there a design wind speed used in specification of temporary bracing?





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