The arrogance necessary to assume we have any real understanding of a butterfly wing in africa being the impetus for a category 5 storm in Mexico is not too far removed from any exercise purporting to prove the existence of heaven and hell... there has been weather and climate change for a whole...
I've been working in the same office for 25 years (30+ years total), and the principle is close to retiring and closing up shop. Ten years from my own retirement, I'm giving serious consideration to doing something else to close it out.
Nuff said.
Analog spoken here...
I think Jayrod12 hit it on the head...ridiculous timetables. Never have so many been asked to do so much with so little, and so fast. I'm constantly getting partial updates of A drawings without MEP, no cuts for ANY equipment. If I do get MEP it's usually a lot of boilerplate and the rest...
You all are discussing apples and zebras... CAN it be done? Sure. Based on what's in the photo, what we know about common carpentry, and assuming half the code required minimum sheathing nails are over-driven, that beam is holding up half the roof... and you're taking the OP through a college...
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Analog spoken here...
I've done one set of stairs like this, 10-15 years back, in a middle school. Our largest concern was that the kids discover that a few of them acting in concert could treat it as an amusement ride [censored].
I'll second everything above, and add that part of our solution was making the header...
We've lost clients to the 4x4 footing guys... good riddance. No fun be admonished for doing it right.
It gets even skinnier... I've had occasion to work with a PE that came from a family PEMB business. They would apparently shop suppliers for steel elements that just barely satisfied the...
