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Title: I-Joist Guide: Performance Rated I-Joists
Author: APA, 2004
File: Free Book, PDF 443 KB, 22 pages
Audience: Written for builders, designers, and homeowners with some prior knowledge of traditional wood framing.

Review
Good general installation manual for i-joists in floor framing, covers a variety of conditions including cantilevers. Also includes sizing charts and other technical information needed to install joists correctly. Performance rated so not specific to manufacturers. Today a majority of floor framing is constructed with engineered products including floor trusses and i-joists.

Issues covered include:

• benefits of engineered wood products
• labeling and properties of i-joists
• i-joist span tables
• i-joist floor framing installation manual
• allowable holes in i-joists
• engineering design properties of i-joists

Detail drawing & graphics include:

• details of typical floor framing
• diagrams of installation for i-joists in various situations
• details of allowable hole sizes in members

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