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    SE Exam New format April 2024

    A 20 hour exam that costs over $1,000 to take with a 14% pass rate...the system is broken.
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    Old Drawing Annotation "Depth w/out PL"

    Plinth.
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    Miami Beach, Champlain Towers South apartment building collapse, Part 02

    >>>Both the city and Prieto are in deep water. In the US municipal engineers are statutorily absolved of liability, so I'm led to understand.
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    Miami Beach, Champlain Towers South apartment building collapse, Part 02

    Was the slab around the corner of the jacuzzi in positive or negative bending? Hard to say, isn't it? That's my point...especially since I can't see the opening accounted for on any of the structural drawings. (Landscape drawings, yes, but not the structural ones.) I'm not saying that that...
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    Miami Beach, Champlain Towers South apartment building collapse, Part 02

    Flat slab. Or, more accurately, flat plate.
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    Miami Beach, Champlain Towers South apartment building collapse, Part 02

    The drawings seem to show the swimming pool ending at either Column Lines M or N, depending on which version of drawing you look at. It's unclear how the pool steps and the jacuzzi are accounted for. Could either of those have affected the continuity or development of the two-way reinforcing...
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    Miami Pedestrian Bridge, Part VIII

    That’s not piling on, Hokie, as Alpha Dog here, which you most emphatically are, directing a comment about me instead of to me is simply a signal to attack. No big whoop; that’s how these forums work. But the (shall we say?) “enthusiasm” of the responses somewhat illustrates my point, which...
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    Miami Pedestrian Bridge, Part VIII

    Regarding the issue of unconstructiblity, I wonder if we’re too quick to accept the popular narrative on that? The pyramids, Roman aqueducts, the Forbidden City, medieval cathedrals, London Bridge, Manhattan skyscrapers, the Panama Canal, Hoover Dam, etc., etc. were built, to say nothing of the...
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    Condensation on Vaulted Ceiling - Pole Barn Style Framing

    Joseph Lstiburek is the guru on this topic. His website and youtube are replete with his discussions of the topic. This lecture is eyeopening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkfAcWpOYAA The whole thing's worth watching but you can fast forward to about the 17 minute mark for your situation...
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    LRFD Design Method for steel structure

    Which I don't appreciate as the two methodologies are different but are both described as ASD. To me it smacks of sneakiness: an attempt to change things without people realizing it. Or, at least one must concede this: it was definitely a change and if the goal had been to avoid confusion they...
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    Sealing design to be used in multiple locations

    Well that approach sounds like it might work. I had thought the situation was that of a detail to be disseminated far and wide to be built off of in multiple locations, not reissued for each location.
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    Sealing design to be used in multiple locations

    >>>...charging a fee for each site its used...<<< Good luck with that. Not trying to be snarky, just trying to help you manage your expectations.
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    California Warehouse Fire

    >>>Almena hired Harris, 28, to help collect rent...<<< I'm guessing that's a rather polite way to describe what his job likely actually entailed...
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    Deflection Detector

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    Water Resource Recovery Facility Structural Design Guide/ Information

    Do it! [thumbsup2]
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