NOTE: This guide specification covers the requirements for steel joist framing and accessories and includes the following components: Open Web Steel Joists (K-Series and KCS), Longspan Steel Joists (LH-Series), Deep Longspan Steel...
This specification covers a one-coat shop joist primer that will provide temporary protection to the steel joists during delivery and erection. This system is intended as a one-coat shop paint for open web and long span steel joists that may be...
This specification covers a one coat shop-applied primer for open web and long span steel joist and joist girders and for cold formed steel framing, and primary and secondary structural framing for metal buildings. This coating is intended to provide...
This guide shows how to use joist hangers in new construction work. It stresses the importance of correct specification and installation to ensure good performance. 8 pages. Replaces Defect Action Sheets 57 and 58. Revised 1996.
Explains why I-joists benefit from being installed with blocking, blocking material composition, and installation details
This document provides standard test methods for determining the vertical load, axial load and torsional moment capacity as well as deflection characteristics of preformed three-dimensional joist hangers that are used primarily for securing one timber member to another (the header can be...
Complete Title: Technical Topics: Nail Spacing Recommendations for APA EWS Rim Boards® and I-Joists
Installation guide includes recommended construction details for I-joists in floor and roof applications. Also includes details for cantilevers and web holes
1.1 This specification provides the test methodology and procedures to demonstrate that the fire performance of wood-based floor framing members is equivalent to unprotected 2 by 10 dimension lumber or equal-sized structural composite lumber (SCL) floor joists used in interior floor...
1.1 This specification provides the test methodology and procedures to demonstrate that the fire performance of wood-based floor framing members is equivalent to unprotected 2 by 10 dimension lumber or equal-sized structural composite lumber (SCL) floor joists used in interior floor...
Requirement for materials, construction, protective coatings, marking, manufacturers' installation instructions and tests for steel joist hangers providing vertical support to timber floor joists. Does not cover hangers designed to transmit horizontal as well as vertical faces...