I appreciate all the advise and comments. Please understand that I am doing what I have been instructed to do. I have exhausted the fact that structural is not my strong point - to my boss that is. Boss for now - hopefully making some changes soon.
I 100% agree that he needs to hire a licensed engineer (PE). I have even told him that. My understanding is that he will have to get this design signed off on in order to receive a permit.
For whatever reason, he feels that me doing the ground work will lesson the chareg he has to pay to his PE...
This is going to be very elementary for most of you structural guys. In my defense, I have a mechanical degree and I work for a structural fabricator as a project manager. I haven't done any true engineering in about 5 years - so I am a bit rusty. Fair warning, I will have follow up questions to...
EdStainless - I truly appreciate your input on this. You have given me the ammunition (for lack of beter words) to play our case on.
Just so I am not leaving anyone out, I appreciate everyone's input as well. I have taken everything that has been siad into consideration. I will be coupling this...
Sorry for the late respnses here. I appreciate everyoine's feedback.
Our fab shop deals mostly with carbon steel. We have a neighboring fabricator that is all stainless - so we farmed the stainless fabrication off to them. So, being honest, I don't know that I can answer the passivation...
We are a fabrication company that specializes in waste water treatment plants. We recently completed a project in Phoenix, AZ where we replaced two drum screens at one of the largest waste water facilities in the country. These drum screens are not supposed to be on the sanitary (sewage) side...
