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The 2012 Wood Design Package includes the publications listed below. To purchase, choose one of the
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What's Changed?
* Qualified students are those who are full-time students enrolled in a wood design course at a university
or college.
The 2012 NDS, 2012 NDS Supplement: Design Values for Wood Construction, 2008 Special Design
Provisions for Wind and Seismic (SDPWS), and ASD/LRFD Manual set is available for purchase.
Please note that additional changes to design values for southern pine dimension lumber were made in
2013. An addendum to the 2012 NDS Supplement is available. More information.
ANSI/AWC NDS-2012, was approved as an ANSI American National Standard on August 15, 2011. The
2012 NDS was developed by the American Wood Council's (AWC) Wood Design Standards Committee
and has been approved by ANSI as an American National Standard. The 2012 NDS is referenced in the
2012 International Building Code
2012 NDS Commentary only available with purchase of the 2012 Wood Design Package.
NDS Supplement – Design Values for Wood Construction, 2012 Edition – with Addenda.
Design provisions in the NDS are integral with design values in the NDS Supplement. As such, it is not
appropriate to mix design values and provisions from different editions of the NDS. For example, the 2001
NDS Supplement contains increased shear design values for sawn lumber to reflect changes in ASTM
D245 and provisions of the 2001 NDS were revised to address these increases.
The AWC SDPWS-08 covers materials, design and construction of wood members, fasteners, and
assemblies to resist wind and seismic forces. Engineered design of wood structures to resist wind or
seismic forces is either by allowable stress design (ASD); or load and resistance factor design (LRFD).
Note: Click on the document cover icons to download a free "view-only" PDF version. The "view-only"
version cannot be printed, nor can text be copied.
The ASD/LRFD Manual contains design information for structural lumber, glued laminated timber,
structural-use panels, shear walls and diaphragms, poles and piles, I-joists, structural composite lumber
and over 40 details are included in the chapter on connections.
Updates
Errata and addendums that have been developed for AWC documents are available here in PDF format.
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