David Utterback

Dave is a Building Inspector employed by the City of Lenexa, Kansas. He is also the proprietor of Timber Tek Consulting, a firm specializing in building code and inspection technology, providing educational seminars on wood frame construction and the building codes. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from Simpson College and a Bachelor’s Degree from Iowa State University, where he studied residential architecture and design. He is a certified One and Two-Family Dwelling Combination Inspector with extensive experience in the building and construction industry. Over the past sixteen years, he has presented hundreds of seminars world wide on building codes and wood frame construction. Long considered one of the foremost experts on light wood frame construction, he has been invited as a speaker at industry conventions and trade shows and has published articles for Fine Homebuilding, Journal of Light Construction, and Builder magazines. His article, “Field Guide to Common Framing Errors,” has been referenced as industry standards in the book Residential, and Light Commercial Construction Standards. Author of the highly regarded Residential Deck Permit and Construction Guidelines, most recently Dave has completed working on the illustrated Window Installation Guidelines, for the Johnson County Contractor Licensing Program, which has been endorsed by the Johnson County Building Officials Association.