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    Permit by Provider

    Sounds like it's their process that is the issue then. Wish I knew an answer to help you, maybe a good solution is to tell them how to apply their review stamps to your drawings if they are used often enough for this to be a pain, as it sounds like may be the case. I would be extremely annoyed...
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    Residential Slab Foundation

    Now back to the OP's question: I am starting to see this more and more often in both cold and hot climates, I believe mostly due to the energy codes being more and more difficult to meet. I'm not a big fan of this detail, but have used something sim a few times when required. It appears that...
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    Residential Slab Foundation

    Are you ok? Seems like you kind of lost it there on that detail based on your ranting (we all get there at some point). Please remember we provide construction documents, not a construction detail, there is also more information in the plan set that answers many your frustrations above...
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    Permit by Provider

    @dianium500 I believe @Harbringer80 is trying to understand what you are even asking, as I too am confused and have never heard this term. If I understand you correctly, you are referring to a 3rd party who does the review in lieu of the building department, whether it be the building department...
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    Reverse Engineering Fabric Building

    I wish my bill rate was that! I estimate more than 160 hours when knowing you also have to draw it, not just engineer it. It's not as easy as you think by any means, I'm going off experience with having done things sim to this before and having learned the lesson of going too low.
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    Reverse Engineering Fabric Building

    @Brad805 I think I misunderstood you there, I agree this is simpler for sure, expect for the fabric, I have no idea where to start there as I am not a fan of even shade sails. If I didn't have to touch the fabric I would think 35k to 40k is a reasonable engineering fee including strengthening...
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    Reverse Engineering Fabric Building

    Maybe you are referring to reviewing the building only and giving a yes or no? My fee would have been all inclusive, site visit, size verification, analysis and strengthening as required, knowing there will be a few rounds of this to find the most efficient strengthening strategy. The only thing...
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    Reverse Engineering Fabric Building

    Only 5 to 10K? wow I need to start outsourcing to you :P The last project we did where an owner bought a PEMB online before realizing they needed to meet building code required us to reverse engineer the structure and strengthen significantly just to support lighting, fire suppression and...
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    Solar Ready Roof -- Existing Building

    I hate to say it, but it's common that many engineers who do "solar ready" just throw in dead loading for a system, and don't even look at wind, basically relying on the fact that technically it can take a flat system, close to the roof with proper gaps to not increase wind loading on the...
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    Masonry Wall Construction

    Guess I'll be the jerk - why not just check a wall in Enercalc or other software for the wind speed and an approximate dead/live loading. This should take less than 5 minutes. To me, using 8" or 12" walls shouldn't change the fee one bit. I'll add that I have used 8" CMU up to about 25' before...
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    Index for 12 page calculations?

    Yes - they only had the requirement for the same place on plans, on calcs I can't do that as it's output from software and well it's just not possible to always have in the same place. I should note - they no longer ask for this on calcs.
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    Index for 12 page calculations?

    Wait till you get a plan reviewer that wants a seal on every page; that was a quick no. Or the plan reviewer that wanted a blank spot on every page for the city stamp... I happily gave them that and requested a copy with their stamp on every page, even printed extra pages for this one...
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    External anchorage of reinforcement - is this feasible?

    I came across these at a structural engineers convention recently, they looked interesting and may work for what you need. https://pourstrip0.com/
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    Ultimate vs. Allowable Passive Pressure - which to use with a safety factor

    Safety factors are required for retaining walls and use ASD combinations which uses allowable pressures, therefore the building official is correct, ultimate pressures need to be converted to allowable and then the safety factor applies on top of that. I don't know what value to use for ultimate...
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    Crazy cantilevered steel deck

    I'm with the others here, the anchors look like the weak point. I would have at least had heavy hex headed anchors for anything with reasonable tension or moment. J-bolts aren't that great in tension. A single 3/4" dia. J bolt with 12" embed with tension only is going to give you about 3700 lbs...
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