Key Updates Included in the 2020 National Building Code
7 Professional Development Hours
After participating in this course, you will be able to:
- Have a better understanding of the technical revisions made to the Code, see the new definitions and learn how they impact various areas of the NBC
- Discover how the reconfiguration of the entire Code has made it easier to use
- Learn the new Part 2 Large farm buildings
- Be exposed to the new encapsulated mass timber construction requirements
- Discover what buildings are permitted to be of combustible construction up to 12 storeys.
Description
In March of 2022, the NRC made numerous revisions to the 2015 version of the NBC (known as the 2020 NBC). This course is not intended to cover every revision but will be of significant use, particularly to those designers responsible for both Part 3 and Part 9 Buildings.
Materials to be covered will include the new Part 2 and many other additions to the 2015 version of the NBC.
The course is highly interactive, so students are required to purchase and bring their copy of the 2020 National Building Code.
Who Should Attend
- Building officials
- Building code, Architectural and Engineering Consultants
- Home Inspectors
- Designers
- Developers
- Individuals who are required to achieve compliance
Course Syllabus
Division A Part 1 (Compliance)
building size determination
- new definitions
Division B Part 1 (General)
- list of referenced documents
Division B Part 2 Farm buildings
Division B Part 3, (3.1. Fire Protection, Occupant Safety, & Accessibility)
- Combustible construction – New 12-storey combustible buildings
- Encapsulated Mass Timber Construction - New rules
- Exterior Cladding – New provisions
- Noncombustible construction – Combustible components in exterior walls
- Fire resistance ratings Supporting Construction
- Continuity of fire separations
- New service penetration requirements
- Changes in fire blocking for encapsulated mass timber buildings
Division B Part 3 (3.2. Building Fire Safety)
- & 3.2.2.57. balconies
- 12-storey combustible buildings Mixed occupancy rules
- 2.2.48. Group C 12-storey combustible buildings
- 2.2.57.Group D 12-storey combustible buildings
- Hybrid buildings
- Exposed building face
- Access route design – 12-storey combustible buildings
- Roof assemblies and mezzanines in Group A buildings
- Fire alarms (visual signals)
- Lighting and emergency power
- 4.6. minor changes
- 3,8. Accessibility revisions
Part 4
- Highlights of revisions
Part 5
- Air Barrier Revisions
Part 6
- Evaporative heat rejecting systems
- Air coolers, Atomizers etc,
Part 9
- Home Type Care occupancies
- Service penetrations
- Glazed openings in exposed building face
- Table 9.13.14.A
- Minor revisions throughout
GROUP TRAINING
REQUEST A QUOTE
Course Rating
Overall rating of this course by its previous attendees!
COURSE CREDIT
Almost all of EPIC's courses offer :
- 0.7 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) and
- 7 Professional Development Hours (PDHs)
These course credits will help attendees earn training requirements for their associations or provincial governing bodies.