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    My client is changing and/or ignoring my advice and design

    Update: First, I want to thank all of you who provided helpful suggestions, encouragement, and advice. It was greatly appreciated - and sustained me during a period of stress! As an update to this saga, I have not budged, despite further on-going remonstrance from my client. I will not...
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    My client is changing and/or ignoring my advice and design

    Dik, yes, I have explained this to the client - insulation only slows heat. I just want to go through the maths to demonstrate the model. If I decide to remove myself from the project, I think I am insulated legally by my contract and by the multitude of meeting minutes and e-mails throughout.
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    My client is changing and/or ignoring my advice and design

    steveh49, thanks. Your advice is good. While I agree that what the owner does after the building is constructed is beyond my control, I feel that my responsibility is to make very clear that, as I designed it, the structure will probably not be stable if it is heated to human comfort levels by...
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    My client is changing and/or ignoring my advice and design

    Dik, thanks again. Back in April, I had gone through some conceptual drawing scenarios with my client to try to see what could be done if they wanted to heat the conditioned space, but, after the exercise, I immediately told the him that I was not happy with those options, and discarded them as...
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    My client is changing and/or ignoring my advice and design

    Good in theory, Bridgesmith, but lawyers tend to take shot-gun approaches to lawsuits, and let the facts surface later - leading to much angst and expense prior to ultimate exoneration. Usually, there is not much we engineers can do to stop a client from altering our design AFTER occupancy - in...
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    My client is changing and/or ignoring my advice and design

    Well said, BridgeSmith. Unfortunately, with the proliferation of U-Tube "How-To" shows, increase in corporate engineering mills, creeping populist mistrust in science/technology/medicine/engineering, growth of the internet, where anyone can pose as an expert and expound on some nonsense...
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    My client is changing and/or ignoring my advice and design

    Dik, that is a sad and disheartening (but too often true, in my experience) statement wrt our fellow engineers - and many other professionals, for that matter. Way back in early 2002, four of us on the Environment Committee of my Nova Scotia Engineering Association spent a year researching...
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    My client is changing and/or ignoring my advice and design

    Dik, I hear you. Sometimes it means that we Canucks simply mask our strength in dulcet tones, while leaving our meaning crystal-clear. Regards, Aton
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    My client is changing and/or ignoring my advice and design

    Hello, all, I am reading every comment and suggestion, and thank you for them. It is a great help and it eases my mind considerably that I am heading in the right direction - Though there was never any doubt in my head that I would not ultimately withdraw from the project if it continued down...
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    My client is changing and/or ignoring my advice and design

    That is not good. Try the URL https://www.csagroup.org/store/product/2428875/ Regards, Aton2
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    My client is changing and/or ignoring my advice and design

    Thanks, Dik, This, too, is helpful advice. And, yes, Climate Change is indeed upon us - the North is warming twice as fast as the rest of Canada, and "southern" Canada is warming up (as you say) faster than the south. Active layers will increase, definitely. I always have a clause in my...
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    My client is changing and/or ignoring my advice and design

    Many thanks, Jayrod12, for your timely advice! Sometimes it helps to have the input of fellow professionals. I had never run across such a situation before where a client so blatantly ignores my design. Hopefully, my letter will affect a change in attitude...
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    My client is changing and/or ignoring my advice and design

    Hello, all, I was hoping that other engineers would kindly comment on my dilemma and offer advice or comment. Many thanks in advance.
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    My client is changing and/or ignoring my advice and design

    Thanks, CarlB. Yes, I have worked with Arctic Foundations before - they are the "go-to" folks. They are the ones I would recommend for such a system should my client be amenable.
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    My client is changing and/or ignoring my advice and design

    It has been a very long time since I last was active on Eng-Tips. So long, in fact, that I have misplaced my old password, and my old e-mail has changed. I had used the handle, "Aton". Thus now "Aton2" But to my question (I am hoping that other engineers who have had my experience can comment...
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