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document.write(' We can review your plans, provide prescriptive methods to meet the requirements, suggest changes in design to meet prescriptive requirements or identify those areas that will require an engineer to provide a design.<br><br>Beginning May 1, 2009 Virginia will begin enforcing 2006 IRC codes, which will be the end of the grace period to use 2003 IRC. As such, many counties, who have been training their officials for the last 12 mos., will actively be enforcing section 602.10 Wall bracing. All plans submitted for permit / plans review will require the location of braced wall lines, the location of braced wall panels and the method used for each floor in residential wood framed structures.<br><br>Both Ken & Kevin have been to the Braced Wall Design classes put on by Chuck Bajnai Chesterfield County Chief Residential Plan Reviewer, Registered Architect and Brian Foley, Fairfax County Chief Structural Engineer, P.E. These two gentlemen wrote the section for wall bracing in the 2006 Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code, and it is based on IRC 2009 wall bracing requirements.<br><br>If you find your plans being rejected based on these code provisions, let us help you save the time and learning curve to get up to speed on them.<br><br>A typical wall bracing review can take from 3-5 hours depending on complexity.<br><br>We can also do a complete plans review and identify other code compliance issues as related to the construction documents.<br><br>A typical set of plans can take from 4-8 hours for a complete review depending on complexity.<br><br>If your plan set needs structural design, we can provide beam, header, joist, rafter, column and footing sizing. We use StruCalc, the same as most of the surrounding counties. We also use all of the I-joist manufacturers sizing software for those products available in our marketplace.</a><br>');


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document.write('We worked with the counties of Chesterfield, Hanover, and Henrico to develop minimum plan standards for new single-family dwellings that are submitted with a building permit application.</a><br>');

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