Any California engineers out there? I was wondering if someone could describe to me the process a structural engineer goes through to obtain a building permit in California. It is my understanding that the Authority having Jurisdiction will complete an independant technical review of the...
I am working on a 4 storey multifamily wood frame building and have to put some steel columns from transfer slab elevation up to the roof to pick up some heavily loaded steel roof beams (Pf ~ 250 kips). The project is on a ski hill with roof snow load of 300 psf. The problem we have is that the...
