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Standard for Design Practice at office

Standard for Design Practice at office

Standard for Design Practice at office

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Hello everybody
I just wondering if somebody can help me on to how to start developing a standard operation procedure for a structural design office.
We want to create procedures that everyone can follow and with this create an standard on our work, I have to came up with some ideas so any help will be appreciate it.
thanks

RE: Standard for Design Practice at office

Do all things correctly such as, calcs., plans, details, specs., etc.; follow all 763 (and growing) of the existing design codes to the letter; buy lots of code books and standards and computers and software because there is no such thing, even as simple as compiling the loads, which can be done without them these days; make all assumptions so they can't be questioned and so they don't hurt anyone's later changes of mind or planing; stay away from attorneys and the courtrooms, if you possibly can; don't charge to much for such a simple mundane commodity as good engineering and sound engineering experience and judgement; work for only the best and riches clients; but pay good people a lot of money since you need them to be successful, they are just increasingly hard to find ; make lots of money for the boss so he can retire at 55.  It's only the last few which are unlikely to happen or be expected of you.  Perfection is all that's expected of you in your practice, alternatively you can argue for months about the meaning of 'done the normal engineering practices and standards.'

RE: Standard for Design Practice at office

Lol dhengr.

I would start with org charts showing how a typical project is run followed by descriptions of roles and responsibilities.  Next I'd start laying out the quality control procedures.  Examples of some of this stuff can be found on the internet.

I would also include a procedure for writing out a project initiation memo at the start of each project to establish the scope, schedule and budget and to get buy in from all stakeholders.  In this memo you would describe the org chart, QC, lines of responsibility, stakeholders, etc. that are applicable for the particular project.

Stuff like this.

RE: Standard for Design Practice at office

dhengr:

Did you take a breath when you wrote your response?  bigsmile

Mike McCann
MMC Engineering

 

RE: Standard for Design Practice at office

Answer depends on how big your office is, and who has workied in a large firm before.  You can take anything simple and make it way too complicated to be of actual value.

Go with the KISS method.

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