The 2024 IBC just adopted ASCE 7-22 in your jurisdiction, and the load determination you have run a hundred times no longer works the way you know it. Reuse your old snow importance factor, build the seismic spectrum from two mapped values, or skip the new tornado chapter, and the design that clears your desk is wrong before it reaches plan review. ASCE 7-22 Explained puts every hazard back under your control — load by load, section by section, from the digital hazard data to the demand you hand the material standard. Here is what this book delivers: • The Load-Path Trace System — follow any load from its ASCE 7-22 section, through the governing combination, to the ACI, AISC, AISI, AWC, or TMS handoff, with the common trap flagged at every hop • Snow without the old habits — apply the risk-targeted ground snow load, drop the removed importance factor, and run drift with the new winter-wind parameter • The multi-period seismic spectrum — retrieve it from the digital data and stop building the spectrum by hand from coefficients ASCE 7-22 eliminated • Tornado loads from scratch — apply the new Chapter 32 obligation for Risk Category III and IV structures and design for the greater of tornado or wind • Every 7-16 to 7-22 change — see what moved, what it costs, and what to fix in your spreadsheets • Wind, flood, tsunami, rain, ice, and load combinations — each traced from risk category to material-standard check Written for practicing structural engineers, SE and PE candidates, plan reviewers, building officials, and the architects who design alongside them.
