Simpson Strong-Tie announced the launch of the Strong-Wall® site-built portal frame system (PFS) to provide designers, engineers, and builders in prescriptive markets with an easy way to meet code-defined wood wall-bracing requirements when building narrow wall widths. Until now, contractors in high-wind, prescriptive markets looking to build garage portals and other wide openings could opt either to use prefabricated wall panels or to design narrower openings to standards developed by the APA Engineered Wood Association and accepted into the 2015 International Residential Code® (IRC) requirements.
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