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    Residential seismic upgrade to URM

    Client needs to do seismic upgrade (Seismic design category = D) to existing wood framed house. Basement story is half in the ground with wood pony walls on top of URM walls along the perimeter of the basement. I am considering adding full-height plywood shear walls installed along the inside...
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    Prescriptive concrete foundation wall limitations

    Do the IRC prescriptive concrete foundation wall details apply where there is a vehicle garage slab directly behind the foundation wall? I don't think so, but I cannot find this limitation in the IRC. Thank you.
  3. ELREng

    Building a stud wall under a beam

    I am in a dialog with a contractor who wants to install a stud wall under the full length of a beam (5.5x13.5 GLB spanning 15'-8"). The stud wall lands over a girder in the crawl space below. His opinion is that nothing in the crawl space is affected because the GLB beam above the new stud wall...
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