April 2, 2021
The most obvious way to verify compliance of fenestration products with code requirements for structural strength under wind pressure loading, often based on commercial-grade requirements of the North American Fenestration Standard, is laboratory testing. However, when a specific project calls for non-standard configurations such as larger or smaller sizes, variations in framing configuration or higher wind pressure levels than those of the tested baseline assembly, it can be prohibitively expensive and time-consuming to test all such variations.
Accordingly, the Fenestration & Glazing Industry Alliance offers a standardized process for engineering evaluation of windows and doors, in the form of AAMA 2502-19, Comparative Analysis Procedure for Window and Door Products, an FGIA standard. Approved as a reference standard in the International Building Code, AAMA 2502 sets forth engineering design rules by which commercial products that differ from the test unit can be q
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Developers of Intro apartment project in Ohio City sing virtues of mass timber construction
Updated Apr 06, 2021;
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CLEVELAND, Ohio In a no-touch world of glowing screens, Zoom calls, and virtual reality, it’s encouraging to see something indisputably authentic that you can rap your knuckles on like a big building made of good old wood.
Authenticity is one of the big ideas behind Intro, a $145 million Cleveland apartment building rising in Ohio City that will soon briefly enjoy bragging rights as America’s tallest mass timber building a structure made of glue-laminated columns and beams, and cross-laminated floor panels.