Don, do I detect a bit of sarcasm there?
This same thought kept coming to me, why can't the frame just be made to handle all that? But I felt as if I must surely be missing something since no one else had mentioned what seemed to me to be the simplest solution. Maybe I am still missing something?
But brave Mr. Pfield-Steader seems to have created a user name solely to share this groundbreaking bit of wisdom with us (I am not at all sarcastic there, just to be clear). I guess he is braver than me.
Or have we fallen into the trap of letting SIPs or whatever enclosure method we may use serve a structural function, and not designing our frames to be able to handle themselves any more? Just a hop, skip, and a jump away from balloon framing I'm afraid! (OK, so that's maybe a bit of a stretch!)
But in all seriousness, why can't the frame be made to handle the wind shear associated with this system? There is no reason immediately obvious to me
