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Minimum Design Loads and Associated Criteria for Buildings and Other Structures (ASCE/SEI 7-16)

An integral part of building codes in the United States, Minimum Design Loads and Associated Criteria for Buildings and Other Structures (ASCE/SEI 7-16) describes the means for determining dead, live, soil, flood, tsunami, snow, rain, atmospheric ice, earthquake, and wind loads, and their combinations for general structural design.
Structural engineers, architects, and building code officials will find the structural load requirements essential to their practice.

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Minimum Design Loads and Associated Criteria for Buildings and Other Structures, ASCE/SEI 7-16

provides the most up-to-date and coordinated loading standard for general structural design. ASCE 7-16 describes the means for determining design loads including dead, live, soil, flood, tsunami, snow, rain, atmospheric ice, earthquake, wind, and fire, as well as how to assess load combinations. 

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ASCE 7 Online

Provides digital access to both ASCE 7-16 and 7-10 with enhanced features that make it faster and easier to work in the Standard.

- Redlining to track changes
- Annotation and bookmarking tools
- Real-time updates
- Toggling between SI and Customary unit measurements

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ASCE 7 Hazard Tool

Easy-to-use mapping features offer a better way to look up key design parameters specified by Standard ASCE 7. The tool also identifies hurricane-prone regions and wind-borne debris regions, as defined in ASCE 7-16, Chapter 26 and ASCE 7-10.

- Serviceability wind speeds now returned with site wind speed
- Seismic data expanded to include 14 coefficients, the seismic design category, and both horizontal and vertical response spectra
- Use site to pull precise hazard data for wind, seismic, flood, snow, rain, ice, and tsunami risk
- Generate a report showing hazard data for your location

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ASCE 7-16 Provisions and Commentary

Minimum Design Loads and Associated Criteria for Buildings and Other Structures (ASCE/SEI 7-16)

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Provides digital access to both ASCE 7-16 and 7-10 with enhanced features which make it faster and easier to work in the standard.
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- Toggling between SI and Customary unit measurements

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The next edition of ASCE 7 is set for 2022. Interested stakeholders are encouraged to submit an application at any time for consideration to participate on the main committee or a subcommittee next cycle. 

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