ICC 1300 And The Crazy T Block Detail

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ICC 1300 used to have a construction detail that by all engineering standards defies the rules of logic and increases cost tinyurl.com/IC... It illustrates how some members of the original ICC 1300 predecessor FEMA P-1100 committee had only minimal understanding of how shear walls work. Fortunately, when I and more qualified engineers on the ICC cripple wall retrofit subcommittee saw this detail we deleted it. This detail alerted me that there may be even more details that had such egregious errors. Much of my time was spent looking at the construction details in ICC 1300 to see if they had similar errors of which I found many.