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Why doesn the Standard for Cold-Formed Steel Framing – Prescriptive Method for One and Two Family Dwellings seem to require a check for wind uplift on back-to-back or box headers?

April 26, 2017cold-formed dwellings family framing method prescriptive require standard steel

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Why doesn the Standard for Cold-Formed Steel Framing – Prescriptive Method for One and Two Family Dwellings seem to require a check for wind uplift on back-to-back or box headers?

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Within the applicability limits of the Prescriptive Method, uplift due to wind was checked and was found to never control the selection of back-to-back or box headers. Therefore, the tables only consider gravity loads.