Lumber Library

Southern Pine

Lumber Library

The Southern Forest Products Association’s Lumber Library is the resource for using Southern Pine lumber in your next project. Each publication provides design-build professionals, residential contractors, do-it-yourselfers, and everyone in between, the tools and information necessary for designing and building with Southern Pine. Each publication is available as free PDF downloads except for the Pocket Span Cards which are no longer available in print. Please read SFPA’s Copyright Notice.

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Southern Forest Products Association (SFPA) grants users of this website permission to download and print copies of all SFPA publications. Please note that a user cannot, without the expressed written permission of SFPA, reproduce, transfer, or post any file to another website or portable storage device, resell, or grant other parties permission to reproduce these files.

Unless otherwise noted, all publications on this website are the copyrighted property of the Southern Forest Products Association and all rights are reserved. For reprint permission, please contact SFPA at mail@sfpa.org.

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Disclaimer:

The Southern Forest Products Association (SFPA) does not test lumber or establish design values. The purpose of these guides is to collect and organize data available from other sources for the convenience of builders, engineers, architects and other professionals.

The Southern Pine design values contained herein are taken from the Standard Grading Rules for Southern Pine Lumber, 2014 Edition, published by the Southern Pine Inspection Bureau, and the adjustment factors are taken from the National Design Specification® (NDS®) for Wood Construction, published by the American Wood Council.

Neither the Southern Forest Products Association, nor its members, warrant that the data from such sources contained herein are correct, and disclaim responsibility for injury or damage resulting from the use of such design values.

The conditions under which lumber is used in construction may vary widely, as does the quality of workmanship and construction methods. Neither the Southern Forest Products Association, nor its members, have knowledge of the quality of workmanship or construction methods used on any construction project, and, accordingly, do not warrant the design or performance of the lumber in completed structures.