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More power to you @KootK. Despite your abilities as an engineer, with your benevolent worldview of crappy contractors and shoddy...

This one in particular is really rich in the context of the discussion at hand and the OP. Allow them to preserve their reputations for...

Probably no one here has tested this. Maybe some one somewhere has. I strongly suspect that if you did test this, you would find that...

Sadly, modern builders where I am from (American south) would never do this these days, because they couldn't wouldn't spare the cost of...

Well @phamENG is a concrete guy, in that they are a structural engineer who has studied concrete as a building material and probably...

This seems to me to be a very strange way to look at your engineering duties, but taking it as a given, how does empowering them to do...

OK, I'll give you that one. Coastal and certainly marine environments are a severe exposure category, so a special case where special...

Seriously? Have you ever actually used this detail or did you just throw that out on the fly? That's a lot of fabrication to achieve...

You may well be right, but just don't mix the materials seems like better advice. Reality check for this entire thread, go with hot dip...

Not sure about @XR250 , but I have seen shallow steel flush beams in residential construction just sitting/bearing on the wall top plate...

I agree in principal, but lets be honest, in reality there will be practically no shear in that diaphragm ever, and the rafters alone...

Personally, I would prefer your original design to bolt a shelf angle to the wall framing, although I can see the mason's reluctance due...

Well, I doubt these low roof diaphragms have been designed to transfer out any shear at the boundary, but if they had, that would be the...

Not surprised. None of it happens here either for residential underpinning and it is a booming business here, but then again there is...