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MINUTES OF March 5, 2008
CALL TO ORDER
President
Dennis Corbett called March 5, 2008 meeting of the Napa/Solano Chapter of ICC to
order. The meeting was held at the
Paradise Valley Golf Club in
ROLL CALL OF OFFICERS
President Dennis Corbett-present; Vice President
Darrell Mayes-present;
Secretary Dan Kavarian-present; Treasurer Gene Ashdown-present
INTRODUCTIONS: Self-introductions
were made by attendees
APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES:
November minutes were deferred until April’s meeting.
Motion made to approve February minutes. Approved
SPEAKER
OF THE EVENING:
Mike
Wright, Simpson Strong-tie, gave a presentation on their “Code Compliant
Repair and Protection Guide”. Mike
talked about the requirement for protecting notches and boring of plates and
studs per section 2308.9.8, 2308.9.10 and 2308.9.11 of the 2007 CBC.
The Code Compliant booklet that Simpson now has shows a wide variety of
plates and stud shoes to meet this code section.
Section 2308.9.10 states" Where plumbing, heating or other pipes are
placed in or partly placed in a partition necessitating the cutting of the soles
or plates, a metal tie not less that 0.058 inch (1.47 mm) (16 galvanized gauge)
and 1 1/2 inches wide shall be fastened to each plate across and to each side of
the opening with not less than six 16d nails”.
Section 2308.10 and 2308.11 references cutting & notching and bored
holes in studs in walls. In these
instances SS Stud Shoes would be appropriate to use.
Mike also said that if an over boring condition exists in a shear wall
refer it back to the engineer of record. Mike
told us that all of the information on Simpson products is on CD rom, this
includes all technical bulletins, code reports and flyers.
So if you would like a CD contact Mike.
He also said that they will be having a workshop for Building Officials
and Inspectors at their plant in
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Dennis said that there will be an IRC workshop in
Dan Kavarian had been approached by the management of the golf club about the time frame on calling in for the meeting attendance. We must contact them by Monday morning with our count because they order their food Monday afternoon, so when people call me late there might be a chance that there will not be enough food to go around. The other part to this problem is when people notify us that they are coming and does not show up we still pay for the amount of meals that we request. The $10.00 dinner price that the chapter charges pays less than 60% of the actual dinner price, so the chapter pays the rest. If you could let me how many people that you will have coming to the meeting by Monday if at all possible. If for any reason you can not make the Monday deadline if you notify me Tuesday by 10:00 we might still be able to get you in. Also if you are unable to make the meeting and you did RSVP please let me know as soon as possible so I can possibly get someone else in your place. Thank you.
CORRESPONDENCE
None
COMMITTEE REPORTS
New chairman-Steve Lamb
Checking-
$11811, 57
Savings-
178.79
CD-
30262.53
Total-
$42252.89
Please
send in your membership forms if you have not already done so. .
Tom Garcia reminded everybody that
the ABM was coming up and asked who was going.
He also said that people have been asking CALBO about forming an
interpretations committee and that it might be discussed at the next board
meeting.
Fred Cullum, Interwest and member
of the access committee, said that the new Multi Family Access workbook will be
available for sale at the ABM. Fred
also talked about the new Certified Access Specialist that the DSA is working on
at a cost of $300.00 for 3 years. He
told us that the Access committee will suggest to the CALBO board that they
develop their own Accessible certification that would cover both
None
Dan Kavarian said that they are working on two details each for foundation systems and stair systems, when they are ready they will be sent out the Building Officials for comments. Once the details are approved they will be put on the web site. Dan also said that it will be a long process but it will get done.
OLD BUSINESS
David Cliché asked if anyone would be interested in becoming the new Education
chairman for the coming year. Steve
Lamb, Building Official Rio Vista, raised his hand and was unanimously approved
as the new chairman.
Dennis talked about the code hearings and the
hospitality events that the chapter sponsored.
The one that was held on Wednesday offered roast beef and beer and wine
along with live music. There was a
good turnout that night and the delegates from around the country appreciated
the work that into the evening. CALBO
had another hospitality night on Saturday but this one did not have a good
turnout. The night was a little cold
and the hearings went longer into the night so the turnout was low.
There was a third night scheduled for next Tuesday but I did not hear the
outcome. The chapters that donated
money to support the hospitality nights were featured on the beer cups along
with a banner that hung above the event. We
had five members in attendance at the hearings.
Dennis said that one item that had a lot of debate was RB65-07/08 that
required fire sprinklers in new town homes.
This item was defeated by committee but was the assembly moved a motion
to approve as submitted and was approved. This
item will now go to the final hearings were it be voted on for approval.
Any proposed code change that was disapproved by committee can be
resubmitted to the final action hearing in
NEW BUSINESS
Dennis brought up some problems in
the new codes that people have been discussing through emails and the first was
handrails for single family homes. Section
1009.10 of the CBC ex.2 states that “stairways within dwelling units, spiral
stairways and aisle stairs serving seating only on one side are permitted to
have handrail on one side only”. So
the question hear is if you have an exterior stairway on a single family
dwelling does it require two handrails? According
this code section it would. Dennis
called Doug Hensel, HCD, for clarification and Doug told him that this is one of
the holes in the code and that was not the intent.
In the IRC in section 311.5.6 it states” handrails shall be provided on
at least one side of each continues run of treads or flight with four or more
risers”. Doug said that they are
going try to amend that section and others but it will take time.
The
next code item was glazing in hazardous areas, section 2406.3.6 ex. 3 talks
about glazing within 24” of a door opening.
Exception 3 states ”Glazing in walls perpendicular to the plane of the
door in a closed position, other than the wall towards which the door swings
opened, in one- and two-family dwellings or within dwelling units in R-2”. This
is different than what we have called in the past.
Tom Garcia mentioned again that when someone has spent the time
researching a code that they need to write out their interpretation and send it
around to the Building Officials for agreement and then have listed on the
website.
The last item Dennis brought up, from Jay Salazar, was in the case where you have a retail space below and how many floors of an R-2 could you have above. On table 503 it says that the maximum height of a type 5A R-2 is 3 stories and 50’ above grade plane and if you add sprinklers it goes to 4 stories and 60’ above grade plane. All of the measurements are from grade plane so you would count the retail floor as the first story.
INSPECTORS TIME
John Bento asked how people deal with sheetrock in
flood zones for fire protection. It
was the overwhelming feeling of the group that fire protection outweighed the
water damage to sheetrock.
Another question was asked about the requirements for openings within the 5’ setback and if others were counting vents in these percentages. Dennis said that Tri-chapter had started to discuss this issue and they were going to talk about it more on their meeting that Dennis is going to on Thursday.
INDUSTRY REPRESENTATIVES
None
ADJOURNMENT
There was a motion to adjourn and President Corbett
adjourned the meeting. The next
meeting will be April 2nd at Paradise
Valley Golf Club.
Respectfully
submitted,
Dan Kavarian
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