Louisiana Carpentry Contractor License and Exam Prep

Updated through January 2023, the book provides a comprehensive set of the most up-to-date Construction regulations. Utilizing MANCOMM’s signature formatting approach – RegLogic – this edition includes notations for changes within the past year and letters of reference.

This book features:

• 1903 – Inspections, Citations, and Penalties
• Part 1904 – Recording and Reporting Occupational Illnesses and Injuries
• Selected 1910 General Industry Standards
• OSHA Forms 300
• Sharps Injury Log
• This edition also includes Subpart AA - Confined Spaces

Carpentry & Building Construction is a comprehensive carpentry program that focuses on residential construction with many procedures also applying to light commercial construction. The informative text provides detailed, heavily illustrated information about materials, tools, and processes, with many step-by-step procedures.

Includes hardbound student edition aligned to the content standards.

Produced by SBCA, BCSI is the truss industry's guide for Jobsite safety and truss performance. This edition includes the most current information regarding the handling, installation, restraining, and bracing of metal plate connected wood trusses. BCSI includes information and guidance pertaining to diagonal bracing for web members with two rows of lateral restraint, as well as permanent lateral restraint and diagonal bracing guidance for trusses spaced wider than 2' o.c.

Drywall, joint compound, backerboard, plaster finishes, ceiling panels, sheathing gypsum-based products are essential for construction jobs large and small. From the planning process all the way down to the jobsite, understanding how and when to correctly use gypsum materials can mean the difference between a job well done and a construction nightmare. Since 1905, The Gypsum Construction Handbook has been the standard manual for construction professionals.

New materials, new methods, and new requirements demand new approaches, plain and simple. The gypsum revolution changed the world of building construction, and The Gypsum Construction Handbook has kept up with innovation in the industry ever since. This Seventh Edition update includes essential guidelines for using state-of-the art USG products, including innovative ultralight, sustainable, and low-dust materials.

USG has been the global leader in gypsum construction products for over a century, and the company employs the world’s premier experts on building with gypsum. These experts are the people who designed the leading products in the industry, and they are the people who wrote the book on how to use them.

This book includes detailed instructions for using USG products, including:

• USG Securock Brand Glass-Mat Sheathing
• USG Sheetrock Products
• USG Fiberock Panels
• USG Ceilings Brand Clean Room ClimaPlus Acoustical Panels
• USG Durock & Accessory Products
• USG Imperial & Diamond Brand Plasters

In addition, you’ll find general construction best practices for everything from framing to finishing. The Gypsum Construction Handbook also contains all the essentials on health, safety, code, and sustainability.

Easy-to-follow instructions for installing doors and windows, ceiling treatments (including fancy beams, corbels, cornices and moldings), wall treatments (including wainscoting and sheet paneling), and many special finishing touches. Specialized interior work includes cabinetry and built-ins, stair finish work, and closets. Includes man hour tables for finish work, and hundreds of illustrations.

The 2021 IBC® contains many important changes such as:

• Puzzle rooms (escape rooms) are now defined and regulated as special amusement areas, requiring compliance with Section 411 and special means of egress requirements.
• For the purposes of determining the allowable number of control areas in a building, each portion separated by one or more fire walls is now considered as a separate building.
• In Group E occupancies, enhanced classroom acoustics in compliance with ICC A117.1 are to be provided in all classrooms having of volume of 20,000 cubic feet or less.
• The requirements for metal composite materials and systems (MCM) installed on the exterior walls of Types I, II, III and IV construction were simplified and sprinkler allowances were deleted.
• The use of intermodal shipping containers as buildings is now specifically addressed through provisions intended to supplement existing applicable IBC requirements.
• Automatic sprinkler protection is now required in Group S-2 open parking garages where any fire area exceeds 48,000 square feet.
• The 2017 edition of ICC A117.1 was adopted.
• Parapets of a minimum height are now required for aggregate-surfaced roofs to prevent blow-off.
• Mixed occupancy buildings with assembly spaces are placed in Risk Category III when the total public assembly occupant load is greater than 2500 people.
• The 2021 IBC snow map is updated to match ASCE 7-16 snow maps by adding a reference to ASCE 7 snow tables in states with large case study areas.
• Secondary rain loads are updated to be consistent with ASCE 7.
• Special inspection requirements were added to address the anchorage and connection of mass timber structural elements.
• Installation of firestop, fire-resistant joint systems and perimeter fire barrier systems in residential-use buildings now requires special inspection in Group R fire areas having an occupant load exceeding 250 people.
• Frost protection for egress doors was added to the foundation requirements.
• ACI standards ACI 117 and ITG 7 were added by reference to provide acceptable tolerances for concrete construction.
• Three new types of construction (Types IV-A, IV-B, and IV-C) allow mass timber buildings of taller heights, more stories above grade, and greater allowable areas compared to existing provisions for heavy timber buildings.

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