Earthquake contingency plans are crucial to designing homes and other buildings, to ensure safety in the event of a disaster. However, this means more than just having shelter to hide in during emergencies. Having support bracing cables installed dramatically limits damage from earthquakes.
The Loos & Co. Seismic Bracing Cable product line prevents much of this damage that some home and business owners may not think about.
The majority of the damage from an earthquake is triggered by improperly supported gas lines, sprinkler systems and electrical trays. These situations can be costly and dangerous, creating floods, fires or other hazards. This is why code-compliant Seismic Bracing products are essential, as they support these systems and other non-structural building components to limit catastrophic damage.
Listed below are the specific products within this product line, which combine to create resourceful and innovative solutions to disasters.
Our Seismic Bracing Cable can be purchased in bulk, on 250 ft. Spools, with load ratings from 600 pounds all the way up to 4600 pounds. Lengths of this bulk sable are easily cut to make Cable Assemblies made in the field with SAF clips and to make field changes. Our convenient spool sizes are easy to move around job sites and always handy to do jobs where many different cable lengths are needed.
To go along with our bulk cable options, Loos & Co. can also provide all the attachment hardware needed to make Cable Assemblies. From Zinc-Plated Oval Sleeves to SAF, SAFR, SAF2, SAF2R and LPF sleeves, we have the right hardware for every project. All our oval cable swaging sleeves are in accordance with the MS51844 criteria.
Seismic Cable Sway Bracing Kits are available with two cables (2-way brace) or with four cables (4-way brace) and completed with factory-installed stake eye fittings that are permanently attached, as well as the zinc-plated oval sleeves needed to swage the loose end of the cables.
These convenient seismic cable sway bracing kits save time at the job site and eliminate the need for the hand fabrication of each seismic sway brace.
Kits are available in #GO3 (GOLD), #OR4 (ORANGE), #GR6 (GREEN), and #BL8 (BLACK) cable sizes. Each cable kit is custom made to the length that is required on the job site.
Loos offers the complete line of Swiss-made FELCO® Brand Cable Cutters. FELCO® is known throughout the world for its unsurpassed quality and reliability in cutting, leaving no frayed cable wires for easy insertion into the sleeves.
Crimping of the oval sleeve for these braces requires the correct tool to maintain strength. Loos offers handswaging tools as well as battery-powered swaging tools.
Unique Features
Loos & Co's Seismic Braces are the only cable sway braces that:
- Are Third Party Listed (UL & ICC-ES) for use in complying with NFPA 13 for fire sprinkler systems.
- Are Third Party Listed for use in complying with the International Building Code (IBC).
- Are Third Party tested/Listed to verify that cable assemblies, including fittings, maintain the cable nominal breaking strength per ASCE 19, as required by IBC, ASCE 7, and NFPA13.
- Have swaged end fittings as required by the 2018 IBC per ASCE 19-16, which does not permit wedge and clip type fittings.
- Certify the minimum breaking strength of the sway bracing assemblies.
- Comply with NFPA 13, ASCE 19, the IBC, and ASCE 7.
- Are Listed as approved products in Spears CPVC Compatibility List.
- Are Listed by FBC for system compatibility with Lubrizol CPVC pipes
