Wood Design Guide—Digital Version

The 155-page Wood Design Guide provides realistic examples drawn from the collective experiences of the authors from actual projects. The intention is for the exercises to be useful in both tests and practice.

Chapters cover gravity, lateral, and connection design and examine solutions through the Allowable Stress Design and Load and Resistance Factor Design approaches. An Appendix explores an integrated building design example based on a retail building in Arkansas.

Jason McCool is owner of Cool Country Engineering in Cabot, Arkansas, and a professional engineer licensed in many states throughout the central and western U.S. over the last 20 years. He has served in most of the officer roles of the Structural Engineers Association of Arkansas (SEAoAR) over the last 13 years, delivered multiple presentations for annual engineering conferences both in Arkansas and elsewhere, and served on the Editorial Board of STRUCTURE Magazine for 5 years. His primary areas of focus are steel and timber construction.

Daniel Sours is a Licensed PE and SE in multiple states. He currently works for Smith Seckman Reid (SSR) in Memphis, TN, and just passed his 20th year anniversary with them. In that time, Sours worked on many different projects covering multiple construction materials and project types. Every day brings a different type of project and that is what he loves about his career.

Dr. Tim Mays is a Professor of Civil Engineering at The Citadel in Charleston, SC. Dr. Mays previously served as Executive Director of the Structural Engineers Associations of South Carolina and North Carolina. He has over 25 years of experience in the design of buildings, bridges, and marine structures. He has received three national teaching awards (ASCE, NSPE, and NCSEA) and both national (NSF) and regional (ASEE) awards for outstanding research. He is a prolific speaker who participates in code development, and his areas of expertise are code applications, foundation design, structural design, seismic design, steel connections, structural dynamics, and civil engineering aspects of antiterrorism.