Results of the June 2011 Evaluation Committee Meeting

1. AC430 — Acceptance Criteria for Deck Harnesses for Residential Decks. This new criteria was approved to address proprietary deck harnesses for residential decks as an alternative hold-down tension devices prescribed in IRC Section R502.2.2.3. 2. AC13 — Acceptance Criteria for Joint Hangers and Similar Devices. Revisions proposed to this criteria were held for further study. 3. AC316 — Acceptance Criteria for Shrinkage Compensating Devices. Revisions were approved to update the criteria to cover the 2009 and 2012 IBC and IRC, simplify the evaluation of tension-controlled shrinkage compensating devices (TCSCD) by defining the proof load as 1.5 times the nominal strength of the connected threaded rod along with other related changes. 4. AC14 — Acceptance Criteria for Prefabricated Wood I-joists. Revisions proposed to this criteria were held for further study. 5. AC120 — Acceptance Criteria for Wood Screws used in Horizontal Diaphragms, Vertical Shear Walls and Braced Walls. Revisions proposed to this criteria were held for further study. 6. AC233 — Acceptance Criteria for Alternate Dowel-type Treaded Fasteners. Revisions were approved to provide clarification regarding testing and data submittal requirements, to standardize statements and tables within evaluation reports and to incorporate provisions to increase the minimum moisture content for wet wood members used in establishing wet service factors. 7. AC425 — Acceptance Criteria for Cold-formed Steel Structural Beams Acting Compositely with Cast-in-place Concrete Slabs. Revisions were approved to allow the Plastic Stress Distribution Method as a method for structural design; include shear design provisions prescribed in AISI S100 and to limit the shear design strength to the more stringent of AISC 360 and AISI S100; remove the requirement for shear verification testing; clarify that the minimum three replicate specimen requirement applies to testing for each applicable limit state; clarify that shear connector related limit states may include limit states related to connector failure, surrounding concrete failure, or combination of the two; remove the requirement for the fabricator's quality assurance program to comply with the ICC-IAS Accreditation Criteria for Fabricator Inspection Programs for Reinforced Concrete (AC157); and to include a requirement that the manufacturer identify the duties of the special inspector. 8. AC304 — Acceptance Criteria for Inspections and Inspection Agencies. Revisions were approved to incorporate new ICC-ES requirements for inspections of manufacturing facilities and to revise the title of the criteria accordingly. 9. AC10 — Acceptance Criteria for Quality Documentation. Revisions were approved to incorporate the requirements for quality documentation that are needed to implement the new inspection requirements, to delete Item 9 in Appendix A and to revise Item 12 (renumbered as Item 11) of Appendix A to clarify that declarations need to be provided in a separate document signed by the report applicant. 10. AC380 — Acceptance Criteria for Termite Physical Barrier Systems. Revisions were approved to update the standards referenced in Section 1.3.3 of the criteria and to revise the clearance to ground on the exterior of the building as required by Section 6.4.2. 11. AC212 —Acceptance Criteria for Water-resistive Coatings Used as Water-resistive Barriers over Exterior Sheathing. Revisions were approved to set forth conditions under which the code official may waive the criteria's requirement for special inspection of the field installation of the water-resistive coatings. 12. AC433 — Proposed Acceptance Criteria for Liquid Borate Fungal Decay and Termite Resistant Treatment Applied to Wood Members. This new criteria was approved to evaluate borate termiticide-fungicide factory-applied to the surface of wood products prior to construction in order to protect the structure from subterranean termites and fungal decay. 13. AC269 — Acceptance Criteria for Racking Shear Evaluation of Proprietary Sheathing Materials Attached to Light-frame Wall Construction or Code-complying Sheathing Attached to Light-framed Walls with Proprietary Fasteners. Revisions proposed to this criteria were held for further study. 14. AC382 — Acceptance Criteria for Laminated Fibrous Board Sheathing Material Used as a Water-resistive Barrier. Revisions were approved to make a number of editorial corrections and clarifications that will bring terms used in the criteria into better alignment with the nature of the products being addressed by this criteria, update the date of the AATCC Test Method 127 referenced in Section 1.4.9 of the criteria, and to revise Section 4.5.3.1 to clarify the original intent of this section and bring it into alignment with how it has been interpreted by the ICC-ES staff and report holders. 15. AC326 — Acceptance Criteria for Proprietary Wood Preservative Systems - Common Requirements for Treatment Process, Test Methods and Performance. Revisions were approved to update the standards referenced in Section 1.3.2 of the criteria, revise the criteria to require minimum retentions to be specified to two or more significant figures, reference AWPA M22-11, and to clarify warning and disqualification status of treatment facilities and third-party reporting status to ICC-ES. 16. AC38 — Acceptance Criteria for Water-resistive Barriers. Revisions were approved to add an optional method of testing water-resistive barriers for their ability to provide a means of draining water that enters a stucco or adhered masonry wall envelope from the exterior. 17. AC29 — Acceptance Criteria for Cold, Liquid-applied, Below-grade, Exterior Dampproofing and Waterproofing Materials. Revisions were approved to clarify that soil conditioning of both dampproofing and waterproofing products is required prior to determining weight loss and water vapor permeance, clarify that soil conditioning of waterproofing products is required prior to testing for hydrostatic pressure over cracks, reformat Table 1 to clarify what tests apply to both waterproofing products as well as dampproofing products and clarify the requirements that apply only to waterproofing products and add ASTM D 5385 to Section 1.3.12 as an editorial revision to the list of referenced standards. 18. AC90 — Revisions to the Acceptance Criteria for Fiber Cement Siding Used as Exterior Wall Siding. Revisions were approved to clarify that the criteria applies to walls and to clarify that the transverse load tests and the racking shear tests are of the siding material only. 19. MISC1 — Acceptance Criteria for Anchors in Concrete Elements (applicable to AC193, AC232, and AC308). Revisions were approved to address the issue of independent testing and evaluation agencies (ITEA) that do not meet the current requirements for an ITEA, but are applicable to ICC-ES, provided they meet certain criteria. 20. AC58 — Acceptance Criteria for Adhesive Anchors in Masonry Elements. Revisions were approved to establish conformity between this criteria and AC308 in several important respects. 21. AC406 — Acceptance Criteria for Belled Segmented Pipe Foundation Systems and Devices. Revisions were approved to remove the term "bullet" from the criteria and substitute non-proprietary terms, add a new section to allow full-scale tests in lieu of testing of individual components, and to revise the full-scale load testing procedures for soil capacity. 22. AC385 — Acceptance Criteria for Special-purpose Sprinkler Heads Used with Fixed Glazed Assemblies to Provide a Fire-resistance-rated Wall Assembly (2012 IBC). The proposed revisions to update the criteria to the 2009 and 2012 IBC were disapproved and the existing criteria was withdrawn. 23. AC02 — Acceptance Criteria for Reflective Insulation. Revisions were approved to divide reflective insulations into three classifications, clarify that the criteria does not address reflective-faced, rigid foam plastic insulation boards, and to clarify use conditions that are to be included in evaluation reports (one being a requirement for a thermal barrier to separate and reflective plastic core insulations that contain foam plastics). 24. AC377 — Acceptance Criteria for Spray-Applied Foam Plastic Insulation. Revisions were approved to include ASTM E 970 as a method to qualify spray-applied polyurethane foam for use on attic floor with and without ignition barriers, modify Section A1.2.2 to define the maximum thickness of spray-applied polyurethane foam applied onto attic floors as the thickness of foam plastic insulation applied to the ceiling in the room corner fire test, to set density limits for test specimens in Section 3.6.1, revise Section 3.6.2 concerning the reporting of R-values, revise the language in Section 5.8 to match the language in AC12, add Section 5.9 to address how coating thickness should be reported in evaluation reports, add a second method to measure coating thickness in Section X2.1.2, and to make various editorial corrections to the criteria. 25. AC432 — Acceptance Criteria for Fixed Condensed Aerosol Fire-extinguishing Systems (IFC). This new criteria was approved to address proprietary aerosol fire-extinguishing systems. 26. AC12 — Acceptance Criteria for Foam Plastic Insulation. Revisions proposed to this criteria were held for further study.