You’d need a proper diaphragm, something akin to a tank lid that genuinely locks the walls together. Otherwise the wall can just crumple at the sort spots. Sounds difficult using plywood and normal metal cladding.
A builder sent me some excavation photos for new footings. One included a note about a snake in one of the pits. I asked him about the snake, and he said, ‘I haven’t seen any snakes?’ Turns out it was just Apple’s auto-captioning mistaking conduit for a snake!
So make sure to keep an eye on...
You typically need to predrill for that thickness. And sometimes you can do a stepped hole, so that the screw thread is engaging 3 thread or thereabouts, and the rest is larger bore, without engagement.
using my well honed engineering judgement to take strategic risks that solve business problems for my clients.
"Take risks" is a fairly loaded phrase (even though every building is a risk, and we are all taking risks every second of every day). "take risks" suggests recklessness. So, it comes...
We have a QA system however it’s largely divorced from the actual quality control., and is more aimed at satisfying the QA auditor people who have their own strange view of the world. Lots of check box busywork that doesn’t really do much.
It’s the same line repeated everywhere: China is investing heavily in renewables and cutting back on coal. Never mind that their coal consumption keeps rising and shows no sign of slowing. Just hold the line and keep chanting the slogan: “China is cutting back on coal.”
China isn’t cutting back on coal , they’ve expanded construction plans again.
https://discoveryalert.com.au/news/china-building-coal-plants-2025-analysis-implications/#:~:text=China's%20share%20of%20global%20coal,with%20China%20contributing%20~30%25.
Their coal consumption continues to grow...
I took it to be an effort to align the point loads with the shelf supports, thereby setting the long-term service load factor to zero and mitigating creep deflection in the particleboard, an approach consistent with best practice in canned goods storage.
You’re more generous than I am if you think they’ll learn much from this. They immediately blamed “atmospheric phenomena” and “sabotage”—the same deflections communists used when their control of agriculture led to famine. Do you seriously expect them to admit that forcing too much unstable...
The difference between mandatory and recommended serviceability limits is an interesting one.
Australian codes usually offer “suggested” or “recommended” serviceability limits, which everyone tries to meet, and often exceed, because the minimums often aren’t enough to stop your phone from...
Sounds familar lol. There is wisdom in this. For possibly contentious matters, get it in writing whether the client wants the code minimum, or something better.
These attribution studies are some of the ugliest examples of cargo cult science we’ve seen in years. It’s rare to see "science" so nakedly engineered around a pre-chosen conclusion. It’s right there in the name: attribution. The whole purpose is to attribute events to climate change, whether...
