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IBC Concerns for Structural Engineers

IBC Concerns for Structural Engineers

IBC Concerns for Structural Engineers

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I have a question for all the structural engineers out there who have to design with the IBC code.  I am a geotech and our company consults on the east coast, where siesmicity is not at the forfront of everyones mind.  

I am putting together a presentation for an audience of structural engineers, and my question is, what would you, as a engineer, like to know about the site classes that a geotech could provide insight for?  I could go on about the theory and why the IBC does what it does, but I would imagine that eye would start to glaze over in the middle of the presentation.

Thanks for any advice you may have.  Hopefully, this can start a good discussion on a relatively new topic.
  

RE: IBC Concerns for Structural Engineers

quite honestly my major concerns would be how to handle it on small jobs were there is not a geotech report.

how to handle the situations where ou can not get a 100 foot boring or hit rock

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