IBC Design 721.1(1) 1-3.4

1-Hour Fire Rated Steel columns and all of primary trusses — 2" hollow clay tile with outside wire ties 0.08" diameter…

IBC Table 721.1(1), Item 1-3.4 (Steel columns and all of primary trusses): protection by 2" hollow clay tile with outside wire ties 0.08" diameter at each course of tile with or without concrete fill; 3/4" mortar between tile and column. Minimum insulating material thickness — 1-hr: 2". Prescriptive protection from the adopted building code — see table footnotes for conditions.

2" hollow clay tile with outside wire ties 0.08" diameter at each course of tile with or without concrete fill; 3/4" mortar between tile and column.

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