STRUCTURE Magazine recently ran a five-part series of articles summarizing significant structural code changes that the building industry will be seeing as jurisdictions begin adopting IBC 2021. Part 1 of the series explores code changes and their significance for the following Chapter 16 topics related to building loads:
• Construction Document Wind Zones
• Risk Categories of Assembly Spaces
• Load Combinations
• Dead Loads
• Snow Maps
• Soil-Caused Uplift
• Rain Loads

It is so important that we, as structural engineers, are staying up to date on these changes. You can find the article here on part 1 and join us in the following weeks as we share each of the updates provided in this series.