Library

Report summarizing the wind-resistant provisions of the 2015 edition of the International Building Code.

Building code for the state of California providing the building rules and regulations as well as disaster resistance tools.

Guidance document from the UN environment programme on climate-resilient buildings and communities practices, including guidance on heat waves, drought, hurricanes, and flooding.

Factsheet describing garage door pressure rating requirements in high wind– prone areas.

ICC-ES Evaluation Report reviewing proprietary steel shear wall panels developed by Simpson Strong-Tie Company to resist vertical and lateral loads in walls resulting from wind or earthquakes.

This document covers how broken windows can allow wind and rain inside the house and even lead to roof failure.

Web article describing many ways homeowners, contractors, and builders can make homes more resistant to hurricanes, tornadoes, high winds, floods, and hail.

A website containing a video series by NW Seismic illustrating how a seismic retrofit should be done and ways they are done incorrectly.

Table in the IRC describing bracing requirements for specified wind speeds and building story locations.

Report covering the planning, design, construction, and operation of residential and community safe rooms. Written for architects, engineers, building officials, local officials and emergency managers, and prospective safe room owners and operators.

Article defining structural design loads and ways to calculate them, including dead loads, live loads, soil lateral loads, wind loads, snow loads, earthquake loads, and other loads.

Report presenting safe room designs and showing the homeowner and builder/contractor or local design professional how to construct a safe room for a home or small business.

Catalog detailing the metal connector products manufactured by Simpson Strong-Tie and their applications and strengths.