Drawing Re-use
Drawing Re-use
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Hi all,
We are looking at engineering some townhomes on the gulfcoast. There are only about 4 different configurations of buildings that are going up, BUT heres the question....There are 177 of them. How do you handle the re-use fees? There is a substantial amount of liability when there are that many going up, though the work involved in producing the documents in reletivly small. Thanks for your input.
We are looking at engineering some townhomes on the gulfcoast. There are only about 4 different configurations of buildings that are going up, BUT heres the question....There are 177 of them. How do you handle the re-use fees? There is a substantial amount of liability when there are that many going up, though the work involved in producing the documents in reletivly small. Thanks for your input.






RE: Drawing Re-use
RE: Drawing Re-use
thread507-2505: Engineer Fees for Site Adapt/Multiple Buildings
RE: Drawing Re-use
This is a very good question that many engineers are very bad at dealing with.
At a conference once, the speaker talked about an engineer who designed a simple span footbridge to be used throughout the country and got the calculation wrong! They only charged a couple of hours for it too.
I would imagine that there legally has to be a geotechnical report for each house which should be reviewed by the structural engineer. Footings may need to be redesigned.
The drawings will need to have the address changed on each drawing also.
They will generally want these buildings economised more than a single building e.g. joists taken out to their maximum spans. You will find that designing a building to be used ten times takes more time than a single building.
csd
RE: Drawing Re-use
Don Phillips
http://worthingtonengineering.com
RE: Drawing Re-use
RE: Drawing Re-use
RE: Drawing Re-use
Don Phillips
http://worthingtonengineering.com
RE: Drawing Re-use
For the first - 100%
For the second - 50%
For all others - 25%
This is only for a project with minor modifications from one to the next. When we start making major modifications we would renegotiate.