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  1. sundale

    Professional Liability - Personal Assets in a Trust?

    Thanks for the excellent responses. An attorney informally advised me to have the partners hold stock in a LLC that in turn owns the engineering corporation.
  2. sundale

    Professional Liability - Personal Assets in a Trust?

    Have any of you consulting engineering firm principals/owners placed your personal assets (home, investments, IRA, etc.) in a revocable trust as a mechanism to better shield them in the event of a potential lawsuit judgment exceeding your E&O liability insurance policy limits? I know I am...
  3. sundale

    Proposal for large repetitive project

    You will need to tranquilize your E&O insurer when you explain there are 150 sources of subpoenas for this one project. A limitation of liability clause with your client(s) is a reasonable request here.
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    Client Requesting PE Stamps on Documents (Not for Jurisdictional Reasons)

    All the states where I am licensed require that all final drawings, reports, specifications, etc. constituting the practice of engineering to be PE sealed. The industrial exemption typically gives a pass on that, but a consulting engineer does not get that pass, even though their O&G client is...
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    Structural Forensic Work

    What is the story behind the all the job openings for structural engineering forensic work? Is there really that much litigation and insurance activity? Are these firms typically sweatshops that have constant turnover of engineers? It would seem that such a niche engineering market would not...
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    FOREIGN STAMPS

    Consulting engineering must be done under the responsible charge of a licensed PE in that state. Stamping the drawings is simply tangible proof that this in fact occurred. What the client requests or does not request is moot in terms of the law.
  7. sundale

    Where does New Mexico stand on the Industry exception for drawings / documents stamping

    butifarra - If you are the client, then you are probably exempt from practice of engineering requirements under the industrial exemption. If you are selling billable hours to an arm's length client then you are not exempt in NM and must follow all (not just some) of the laws. This includes PE...
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    Where does New Mexico stand on the Industry exception for drawings / documents stamping

    If you billed yourself out to an arm's length client as "engineer" in your title and billing rate, then you must have thought you were practicing engineering. This requires a license, regardless of what you are designing. All final engineering deliverables must be PE sealed per this NM statute...
  9. sundale

    The future of handheld scientific and graphing calculators (or pen + paper, for that matter)

    A handheld calculator will be required for the immediate future if one is sitting for the FE or PE exam.
  10. sundale

    Stem Wall Out of Plumb

    "additional engineering required due to contractor errors or omissions, as well as any contractor proposed design changes or contractor requested alternatives, shall be borne by the contractor." This is a poor idea from an engineering ethics perspective, if the Contractor is not your client...
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    Steel joist supporting a fall arrest system

    You may use a 2,500 lb point load if the person has a backpack decelerator fall arrest device. Joist still hay not pencil out for that in shear or bending. Welding in additional web members at the truss panel point and having cross bracing to force partitipation of multiple joists would not be...
  12. sundale

    A preferred format for foundation loads for pressure vessels and similar structures?

    I would like the loads given in the nomenclature per Process Industry Practices (PIP) STC10105 - Structural Design Criteria, i.e. Empty Dead Load = De, Test Dead Load = Dt, Operating Dead Load = Do, etc. I prefer service level forces, except now wind and seismic are ultimate forces. PIP has...
  13. sundale

    Client upset About Shearwall design

    I love wood as an engineering material but cannot stand working with the guys that construct with it, i.e. residential contractors, because: - Residential wood butchers always know FAR more about structural engineering than you ever will. - A contractor with "20 years of residential...
  14. sundale

    Voyager 1 is Officially in Interstellar Space

    "Would it matter? After all it would be like us lissening to the other language radio station, noise, but no meaning." That's what I think when I listen to my kids' music.
  15. sundale

    SISTERING JOISTs or LVLs

    "...what is the best recommended proceedure to make sure the ceiling will support the weight of a bedroom? Answer: Hire a licensed professional structural engineer to review the proposed modifications to the existing structure.
  16. sundale

    Structural Fill Pad Under Recip Compressor

    ABC is unconfined with gentle 5:1-ish slope. Compaction testing was performed (95% Modified) Roadbase spec was NMDOT for 3/4" (-). Native sand was scarified 8" and compacted.
  17. sundale

    Structural Fill Pad Under Recip Compressor

    Situation: Large skid mounted recip compressor founded on a 4'-0" thick moisture compacted ABC fill pad over native sand. Skid rails are buried almost up to strongback beams’ top flange with compacted ABC ramps as well. Skid has developed excess horz and axial movements (and some minor vertical...
  18. sundale

    12F Roof Hinge Reinforcement for Explosion

    Thank you everybody for the responses.
  19. sundale

    12F Roof Hinge Reinforcement for Explosion

    In a 12F production tank, has anybody seen a detail where there is a single additional horizontal 18" long fillet weld to the roof/shell joint located over a vertical shell joint? The stated purpose of this detail is to provide a reinforced hinge such that the roof comes off in an explosion...
  20. sundale

    Being Charged as a Subcontractor for Electronic Files

    I bet the sort of architect that crafts that kind of verbiage for their own subs has a "paid when paid" clause too...

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