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  1. SRO

    contractor not following plans... at all

    Hopefully you have a "no substitutions" note on your plans. Notify building department, Then all parties involved, as well as their extended family, AND DO IT IN WRITING!!! A paper trail is your best friend moving forward.
  2. SRO

    Verification of percentage based payment for engineering services

    @SWComposites - It's my first rodeo billing like this. I have no idea what I'm doing. @human909 - I'm charging 2% of the total construction cost. @dik - I thought about that, and I'm not opposed to it, but it feels like going around my clients back. Honestly, I don't fully trust my client...
  3. SRO

    Verification of percentage based payment for engineering services

    @driftLimiter - I have this in it (see below), but I feel I already underestimated the total cost. "Unless receipts, invoices, or other evidence of payments are provided to this office, the total construction cost will be defined as this offices’ opinion of all probable construction costs for...
  4. SRO

    Flagpole Wind Loads FBC

    @Celt83 Normally I'd agree with you, however when the wind loads were reconfigured in ASCE 7-10, the load combinations were also changed. I'm not positive that somewhere imbedded in the formulas of FP-1001-07 this doesn't come into play.
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    Verification of percentage based payment for engineering services

    I have landed my first project where the payment is based off a percentage of the total construction cost. How do other engineers verify the actual total cost to determine an accurate final payment? It doesn't help that the project continues long after we are done with our part. I feel...
  6. SRO

    Trying to explain to non-engineers that it may be OVERKILL, but it is NECESSARY

    Engineers design to the requirement of the code. If they don't like the criteria that all engineers, contractors, & property owners, are required to meet, have them take it up with the state.
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    Flagpole Wind Loads FBC

    FP-1001-07 is the latest. It's odd that every organization pumps out a new manual every 2 years, and this hasn't been updated in almost 20. Not that I'm complaining. Typically I use the wind loads from ASCE 7-05 which is specified in FP-1001-07. The ASCE tables aren't accurate enough for...
  8. SRO

    Built-up roofing weight per thickness value

    Does any have any value for the weight of a built-up roof per unit thickness? I can find some weight (psf) values online for the various plies (3-ply, 4-ply, & 5-ply), but can't correlate this to a "weight per inch thickness" value since there is no direct relation (that I can see) between...
  9. SRO

    EonCoat product - need feedback

    I'm designing an elevated house in a V zone (near the ocean) and typically like to use concrete for the piers & beams since they hold up better to the corrosive environment. Due to other design aspects of the project (connection to frames above) it would be beneficial to use steel beams for the...
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    EonCoat - need product feedback.

    I'm designing an elevated house in a V zone (near the ocean) and typically like to use concrete for the piers & beams since they hold up better to the corrosive environment. Due to other design aspects of the project (connection to frames above) it would be beneficial to use steel beams for the...
  11. SRO

    Fire cut beam ends in concrete walls; Are they required???

    jayrod12; Thanks. I think that's what I'll do.
  12. SRO

    Fire cut beam ends in concrete walls; Are they required???

    XR250; I just got off the phone with Simpson and you are correct. There is no out-of-plane capacity with the ICFVL Ledger connection system. I wish they made that a little more obvious. Thanks for saving me the cost of a defense lawyer. I owe you a beer.
  13. SRO

    Fire cut beam ends in concrete walls; Are they required???

    phamENG / JStructsteel; Thank you both for the feed back on the fire cuts. dhengr; Actually the 22k load will be on an interior traditionally formed wall. The max Pu on an ICF wall is 10.4k. The walls will be a 8" thick (12" ICF) flat walled system, however it will be at the ridge 12' above...
  14. SRO

    Fire cut beam ends in concrete walls; Are they required???

    It is a single family residential structure designed using IRC-15 we are using ICFs for the exterior walls and regular forms for the interior walls. The maximum point load (Pu) is 22 kips. I like your embedded plates idea and I'll use it if I have to, but I think it would be easier for the...
  15. SRO

    Fire cut beam ends in concrete walls; Are they required???

    I'm designing a new residential structure and the architect wants concrete walls (interior & exterior) all the way to the roof. These walls will support beams bearing in beam pockets at mid-height of the concrete wall. I was going to specify that the beams have fire cuts at the ends (similar...
  16. SRO

    Design of Shear Reinforcement for a Concrete Wall

    I'm designing a concrete shear wall and I'm a little rusty so poking around on line for a "refresher" I came across a very helpful YouTube channel from Tyler Ley. He's big a professor from OSU that is very involved w/ ACI. Here is the shear wall video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyVR0Or_YyE
  17. SRO

    Steel Bar Joist, Maximum Bridging Force Clarification

    Thank you both for all the helpful input on this one.
  18. SRO

    Steel Bar Joist, Maximum Bridging Force Clarification

    phamENG; The only equations I see are 4.4-1(a-c), and 5.4-1(a-c), but they are the same thing except one solves for the radius of gyration, and the other is solved for brace spacing. Am I missing something? I have been watching webinars, scouring the web, to try and figure this out and there...
  19. SRO

    Steel Bar Joist, Maximum Bridging Force Clarification

    SandwichEngine; I love the thought, but I need the radius of gyration for the weak axis "ry", and there is no posted deflection tables. Any other brilliant thoughts? phamENG; All I see SJI 100-2010 is Section 5.4 (5 pages mostly tables), Section 104.5 (3 pages), Section 2.7 (6 pages mostly...
  20. SRO

    Titen HD Screws w/ Square Washer vs. Redhead Wedge Anchors vs. 5/8" Threaded Steel Rods (Epoxie

    I've spec'd out Titans for anchor bolts, and the framing contractor loved them, however the GC gave me an ear full when discussing the project after the fact since I guess it was a significant cost increase.

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