FLORIDA BUILDING COMMISSION
Structural Technical Advisory Committee
Minutes
Phone call in number: 888-808-6959
Conference call code: 2059360213
January
5, 2012
10:00 AM-10:45 AM
Public point of access: Room 250L
Department of Business and Professional Regulation - Southwood
Building Codes and Standards
2555 Shumard
Oak Boulevard
Tallahassee, Florida 32399-2100
(850)-487-1824
Ø To Consider Regular Procedural Issues: Approval of Agenda and Previous Meetings Minutes
Ø
To Consider: Review and make
recommendations to the Commission and Product Approval POC on equivalency of
standards
Ø To Consider
Committee and Public Comments
Structural TAC members present: Jim Schock, Chairman, Craig Parrino, Steve Strawn, Jack Glenn, Rusty Carroll, Dan Lavrich, Do Kim, Jaime Gascon,
and Nicholas Nicholson.
1. Called to Order - reviewed/approved agenda as submitted and the previous meetings minutes were
approved.
2. On the issue
presented of “ASTM E 1996-05 is equivalent to 1996-02 and for impact devices is
equivalent to 1996-06”, the TAC heard from both the Petitioner and staff
regarding the issue of concern and took the following action:
TAC Action #1: The Committee unanimously recommended
that “ASTM E 1996-05 is equivalent to ASTM E 1996-02.”
TAC Action
#2: The Committee
unanimously recommended that “ASTM E 1996 - 05 is equivalent to ASTM E 1996-06
with respect to protective devices, with the exclusion of mullions.”
3. Under Public
Comment, an issue arose regarding the code development process and it was
reminded that the 2013 Florida Building Code process is going to be
dramatically different.
4. Adjourned at 10:45
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