Hello Rick
I hope this helps. I just got home and this was in my e-mail.
From: Luxor Industrial Corporation <luxor@intergate.bc.ca>
Subject: Luxor Opens First U.S. Regional Sales Office
Luxor Opens First U.S. Regional Sales Office
Luxor Industrial Corporation is pleased to announce the opening of it's
first Regional Sales office in the United States. The office, located in
Frederick, Maryland, is scheduled to open by May 1, 1998. This office will
complement the first US assembly plant located in Sunbury, Pennsylvania,
which was previously announced. Luxor's sales and technical staff at this
regional sales location will provide marketing services to builders,
architects, engineers, retailers and building officials in Maryland,
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia and the
Washington DC areas.
The office location on Route 26 (9545 Liberty Road), a major thoroughfare,
will provide excellent exposure for the IBS 2000r Load Sharing FloorsystemT.
The 3000 square foot office space will facilitate sales presentations and
technical seminars. In addition, full scale demonstration floor assemblies
will be setup on the property. Centralizing Luxor's sales staff and sales
efforts will significantly increase the efficiency of marketing efforts.
The IBS 2000r Load Sharing FloorsystemT is currently featured in the Summer
Edition of Fine Homebuilding, which has a circulation of approximately
250,000 throughout North America. Following are some excerpts reported by
Fine Homebuilding:
"When I designed a new home for my family, simple frugality led me to
stretch the living-room floor joists to the maximum span allowed by code.
If CABO approved the span, why should we question it? Well, because codes
specify minimum standards for safe construction. They offer no guarantee
that building to the minimum standard will not in some way be annoying.
That long span caused a bounciness in my living-room floor that makes the CD
player skip as I walk past. Annoying, yes; embarrassing to a
quality-oriented builder, yes; a safety concern, no."
"Luxor Industrial Corporation makes the IBS 2000 Load Sharing Floorsystem,
engineered bridging that is claimed to improve a floor's stiffness so
efficiently that the maximum permissible joist spans increase. For example,
the Canadian National Building Code (CNBC), which allows considerably less
deflection than do U.S. codes, approves #2 Douglas-fir 2X10s on 16-in.
centers to span 14 ft. 9-in.. If you add one row of IBS 2000 bridging at
the midpoint of the span, the CNBC allows this maximum span to increase to
17 ft.Most U.S. jurisdictions will accept these spans now if they've been
approved by an architect or engineer. Even if you don't want to increase
your span beyond what code currently allows, IBS 2000 bridging might keep
your CDs from skipping."
For further information contact Budd Iwaschuk at (604) 684-7929 or (800)
665-2454, or visit our website at luxorcorp.com.
Regards and good luck. We all need it
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