Building Consistency Meeting
Residential
Date: 2/6/2007
Recorder and minutes prepared by: Danny Wooten/Jeff Griffin
Staff present: Steve Kellen, Jeff Griffin, Danny Wooten, David Morton, Randy
Newman, Rob Ellis, George Rogers, Tim Taylor, Mark Wyte, David Williams, Harold
Sinclair, Barry Human, Walt Nash, Pat Holshouser.
Public present: Bob McKee (Ryan Homes), Jim Brodnik (Mattamy Homes), Cory
Cronin/Jason Whitehead (CP Morgan), Frank Burke (J.S. Kempf & Assoc), Aaron
Ringel/Jeff Dotson (Eastwood Homes), Paul Boucher (John Wieland Homes), Bob
Otto (R.E. Otto & Sons-NARI), Wynn Yates (Yates/Starnes Engineering), Richard
Simmons (Public), Roger Mitchell (Davis Homes), Dave Reynold (Builders 1st source),
David R. Schwieman (Public), Paul Broadbent (Abbey Builders), Daniel McBride (The
Cunnane Group), Victor Artuso (Shea Homes), Evan Weiss (Meeting Street).
Topics/Subject
Decisions/Conclusions/Actions
Old
Business
Code change
date, classes &
low E glass
As a reminder the mandatory effective code change date was discussed
again and will be January 1, 2008. With this change Low E glass will be
required on all windows on any permit issued after this date. Classes
should be available through CPCC on Code changes starting in
June/July depending upon availability of new code from ICC. Per ICC
the NC 2006 Code books should be available in March and will check
with ICC and advise at March consistency meeting.
New
Business
Attic & crawl
space openings
Field classes to
reduce failure
rates
Discussed the issue of possible changing the current code to reflect
actual clear opening on attic access instead of rough opening. Current
code and future code list a rough opening in section R807.1 of 22x30
which doesn’t address how much a rough can be reduce for actual net.
Current we have been allowing a reduction of 2” from rough opening to
meet the intent however if there is mechanical equipment in that attic
space the Mechanical Code requires a net minimum clear opening of
20x30 which would conflict with the residential code. We will present
this to the Residential Ad Hoc committee to see if this can be changed
to read the same as the Mechanical Code to maintain consistency
between the codes.
Builders were advised that Mecklenburg County Code Enforcement
Department offers field training classes. Typically this is a full code
frame check on a given builders product with several inspectors
attending along with builder and his framer or anyone else wishing to
attend. The intent of these training sessions is to familiarize a contractor
with code requirements and the inspection process to decrease their
overall failure rate and the necessity for County officials to make repeat
visits to any given jobsite. If interested please contact your building
inspector, Jeff Griffin or George Rogers to set up.
Address on
detached
accessory
buildings
Issue has come up about detached accessory buildings like garages in
some neighborhoods that front a separate street or alley way. These
detached garages also need to have the site address posted on them
visible from the alley way. In some cases the only street to the structures
is the alley way in which the garages face. Below is a photo of a rear
detached garage and alley way application.
Auto
notification
Feature has been set up on inspector’s itinerary to notify contractor
when in route to their jobsites. This will be a notification generally 1520 minutes out from arrival and will be sent by electronic media to
either a phone service like mobile highway or to an e-mail address
whatever form of notification chosen by the contractor. This feature is
now activated and inspectors will start to use effective Tuesday
February 27, 2007.
Concern arose about carpet protection again, inspectors are not
allowed to remove their boots upon entry into a structure and if carpet is
installed we ask that builder provide some level of carpet protection so
that final inspections can be performed. If a builder leaves boot covers
or even grocery plastic bags inspector is asked to use these to prevent
placing mud on carpets. Inspectors have been instructed not to walk on
carpet with muddy boots and to protection provided they should turn
down as inaccessible.
Cold weather protection is required on site for concrete pours when cold
weather conditions are warranted per ACI318. A copy of the general
requirements that was passed out several years is attached to these
minutes. Base upon current weather conditions this will probably not be
a problem this year but for future reference protection is required on site
when cold weather conditions exist (3 consecutive days at below
Carpet
protection
Cold weather
protection for
concrete
40 degrees and not above 50 degrees for more than half of
any of those 3 days).
Next meeting is on March 7th , 2007 and will in the Ed Woods meeting room 1st floor of the
Hal Marshall building at 8:00am.