Well, certainly it does, but what it's implicitly doing in that is it's flagging and singling out a single product and the assemblies that are produced by that product. One is best to leave that to the purview of the designer. The designer makes those decisions based upon the requirements of the National Building Code of Canada, and makes those decisions based on the education that's been provided for that individual--by the wood industry, by the steel industry, by the concrete industry--with the tools that are available for that professional to design, etc.
On October 21st, 2010. See this statement in context.