I guess my question is how do engineers ensure compliance with their structural drawings for a project they designed for a location too far away for in person inspections? I highly doubt this outfit is flying across Canada to do even one site inspection on a residential home design.
For the Structural Engineers out there,
when you do projects that are out of town and in another province how do you do your site reviews to ensure compliance to your drawings? Reason I ask is because I know an outfit here in Canada thats doing projects all around Canada and there is no way...
Hello all,
looking for some advice on a project that just came up using the hambro floor system in a 2 story residential home. Contractor wants to add a home lift (elevator) starting on the main-floor up through the second floor (require coring through the 3" concrete composite slab). The lift...
if the cantilever wall is only required to be designed for the 0.5kpa (factored load) as per my attachment from the NBCC commentaries. Then I believe a 8" wall cantilevered is still sufficient (although it might not stay plumb), as my seismic load does not exceed the 0.5kpa (low seismic area)...
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my understanding is that if you laterally support your firewall on both sides of the structure, and if one side of the structure collapses due to the fire then the remaining undamaged side of the building is providing lateral support to the firewall, and also some lateral load due to the...
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I have been requested by the architect to provide a detail for a concrete fire wall that spans about 37' ft above slab on grade (43' to top of footing)
This will be a non-load bearing wall in terms of gravity loading and will not be connected to adjacent structure on either side...
IRstuff, I agree I would have preferred to do the drawings myself and get paid a larger fee, these are my one-off projects with this specific architect, I wouldn't do this on a consistent basis.
Hello,
I've been asked to review and stamp the structural drawings portion of an architectural drawing package, it was requested from a architectural design firm for custom homes, in our jurisdiction architects are allowed to design structural elements provided they have the expertise, and...
