Exactly. The setup covers exterior continuous insulation, shear ply and air infiltration barrier with a single sheet good. They have nailing data for the engineers to compensate depending on the thickness of the insulation. It’s very slick for those jurisdictions that require continuous insulation.
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Going to school where Lou “What Does the Brick Want to be” Kahn taught, I got a lot of stuff about brick in school, and some more practice and technical stuff afterwards, but haven’t been using it so much lately.
Good resources are the Brick Institute of America:
https://www.gobrick.com/read-research/builder-notes
and International Masonry Institute:
Brick veneer usually has a 1" min. gap behind, and then, sometimes, foam insulation - more so with block backup. Sheathing then against the studs. Zip sheathing is becoming extremely common around here, though not necessarily with the adhered insulation. I was taught long ago not to use those simple corrugated metal ties for the brick veneer as the metal fatigues and breaks over time. Better to use a two piece metal tie that allows vertical movement while still holding it back.
One common thing I’ve seen in houses with a detail like that is to cantilever the floor framing out to cover the top of the brick. The floor framing has to be capable of taking that jog in the load path, but mostly that comes down to shear for that small distance.
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Doh! And the IMI has a bunch of stuff on 3D Warehouse, though I don’t see the combination of brick veneer on stud backup, they have brick veneer on block backup and adhered brick on stud backup:
https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/by/InternationalMasonryInstitute?tab=models
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You need to add metal flashing under the hardie board and over the brick terminating with a drip edge.
That house finished being built 9 months ago.
LOL! I should have checked the other comments first.
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