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Floors to Walls 2

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In this ARE 5.0 NCARB-approved Project Development and Documentation Exam Prep course you will learn about the topics covered in the ARE 5.0 PDD exam division. A complete and comprehensive curriculum, this course will touch on each of the NCARB objectives for the ARE 5.0 Project Development and Documentation Exam.

Instructor Mike Newman will discuss issues related to the development of design concepts, the evaluation of materials and technologies, selection of appropriate construction techniques, and appropriate construction documentation.

When you are done with this course, you will have a thorough understanding of the content covered in the ARE 5.0 Project Development and Documentation Exam including integration of civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and specialty systems into overall project design and documentation.

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It's shedding the water so it's battling against the gravity, it's protecting the nail, but it's also allowing that movement when that moisture gets into that wood and it expands that piece of wood it will allow that little bit of movement, one next to the other, but then equally just like we were talking about before if that's going right over that joint between the regular part of the wall and where the floor is coming in that movement that's happening because of those rim joists and the top plates and all of those elements, there's gonna be a squishing and then an enlarging. It's going to allow that to sort of slide right by each other. So the shape of the clapboard, shape of the shingles, the shape of all of those kinds of siding materials, you'll find there's always some way that that slippage is allowed to happen and yet still protecting the slot in between.

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ARE 5.0 Project Development & Documentation Exam Prep

Duration: 36h 46m

Author: Mike Newman