Every three years, the Gypsum Association publishes a new edition of the Fire Resistance Design Manual (GA-600). This is always a significant event for Association staff and Technical Committee members because the manual is one of the major tangible items by which individuals most closely identify the association.
Great care is taken to ensure that the content of the FRDM is correct and current when a new edition is created. The updating process is methodical and involves a minimum of two full member company reviews of the entire (both existing and proposed) text. From the time the updating process is initiated until the day that the initial copies are distributed to the public, it commonly takes 18 months to produce a new edition of the FRDM.