I'm late to this thread, but have you considered forensic engineering? The work is interesting and often involves being in the field, interacting with clients, with some testing and analysis mixed in. The downside is lots of travel (which is why I left the field when I had kids, and won't join a...
Thank you everyone. Great feedback and I think the contractor has a number that will work. They do want me to do it, and I have a meeting with them later this week to hash out some of these details that are being brought up here to see if it can work for both of us...and if not, at least the...
@LittleInch, they're requiring a PE and they want someone with 15 years of experience. I was using what I bill people for my time, which is $250 per hour. But if people who actually do this kind of work use a different bill rate I will update--I'm shooting in the almost dark here as far as what...
It is in a heavily regulated industry, so it could possibly be regulatory. I have not heard of the owner being particularly litigious over projects, and they have done many large ones over the years; however, that makes sense. In light of that....I wonder if the $520000 number is more realistic...
Hi everyone. A client of mine is doing a project for an owner, and the owner wants my client to have an engineer on site full time for the duration of the project. (18-24 months). This person would be responsible for double checking materials and watching other inspectors (there are piles/pile...
Well. It looks like I have a joist that has a V section top and bottom chord, but with round bars for the web members, which is not like the J and H series (because bottom chord is not a B section but a V section), and not like the VV joists because the web members are not rectangular. It looks...
I missed sliderulera's website by a few months, it seems, and the wayback machine didn't save any of the bar joist information stuff on the "Contributions by Others" page. Would anyone be willing to share a dropbox link with that stuff in it? I believe I am specifically interested in the Macomb...
I'm having a huge brain lapse. I can put a column on a basement wall right? Where do I go to find the appropriate code requirements/design standards and calculations to do so safely and figure out if I need a thicker section of wall/make a RC column inside the wall at that location?
I am absolutely zero help from a programming perspective...but I can describe website behavior maybe.
I wonder if the marketplace could be set up like an e-commerce catalog of sorts, with each tool having a page and a price (and thus, categories and subcategories and associations with...
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So I'm late to the party and the thread is closed but this sounds amazing. I'd definitely be interested, and I worked at a SaaS company for four years and would love to discuss it further, maybe I could reach out to some developer friends to ask how to make it happen/best...
