New Wind Load Provisions in Philippine Structural Code

New Wind load Provisions in Philippine Structural code William T. Tanzo Vice-President, Vibrametrics Inc., Philippines Benito M. Pacheco President, Vibrametrics Inc., Philippines New National Structural code A new edition of the Structural code , the Fifth Edition of the National Structural code of the Philippines (hereinafter NSCP2001), was completed in 2001, almost ten years since the previous code edition. This replaces the previous edition which was the Fourth Edition of the National Structural code of the Philippines (hereinafter NSCP1992) which was adopted in 1992. NSCP2001 was approved and endorsed by the Professional Regulation Commission in November 2002, and was approved as a referral code of the National Building code of the Philippines in June 2003. At present, it is widely adopted in use by the Philippine Structural engineering community.

November 2002, and was approved as a referral code of the National Building Code of the Philippines in June 2003. At present, it is widely adopted in use by the Philippine structural engineering community. NSCP2001 is considered a major code revision with changes in different aspects of structural design. The wind load code provisions are no ...

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