Some of the most tragic deck accidents occur because of the failure of the deck-to-house connection. This is one area of code that is changing quite literally as we speak, and they are getting serious. Lateral and various dynamic loads can easily cause a deck to...
Deck Railing failure accounts for a large portion of the injuries and deaths involving structural failure of decks. Let’s take a look at why, and discuss some fairly simple measures we can take to make sure our railings comply. First, what does the code say?...
This is the first of what we hope will be many posts to the new Blog here at Nolan Engineering. Periodically we hope to bring you interesting articles about building, design, architecture, code issues, and maybe even a bit of fear-mongering (did I just say that?). And...
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