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Hi All, I have an building safety inspection project for a building in South Florida. We are required to do the 40yr and every 10yr structural inspection. So this building in question is a single story CBS concrete block structure. The original plans are from 1973 and barely legible. But I...

Hi All, I am a PE & a GC in South Florida, as you know with the recent Surfside collapse Miami Dade and Broward Counties are enforcing 40 and 50yr inspections urgently. We are getting many requests to do the inspections but I am not too familiar with electrical inspections. I have the checklist...

Hi All, I have a commercial restaurant client that wants to open up their interior space with folding windows. The restaurant faces the ocean in FL so they want to have the outdoor feel for the customers. But currently the space is interior and has several AC vents to this space as it is the...

Hi All, I have an residential home that was built in 1968 in South Florida. There are 31ft long trusses with 2x4 at 24" o/c (see truss layout attached). There currently are 2 interior walls that the owner wants to remove from underneath, they have horizontal bracing which initially led me to...

Hi All, I do special inspections from time to time for window contractors in South Florida. This project the city inspector specifically asked for an engineer to provide a letter approving the double buck condition, the NOA does not have a double buck configuration. Essentially what is going...

Hi All, Quick question, may already know the answer to this. But following ASCE 7-10 Part 3 for buildings > 60ft.... I have a high rise with Exposure Classification D. I am only interested in zone 4 and 5 for impact windows, but I do not see where this process takes into account the exposure...

Hi All, I am a professional engineer in FL and do Structural & MEP. Full disclosure I do not usually get into 3 phase electrical these normally sub out to electrical engineers I work with. In this case I am doing a tenant buildout in a commercial space which is a standard single phase 200 amp...

Hi All, I understand that I maybe grasping at straws here, trying to make something work that on paper does not. My client is a window installer and has an opening roughly of 15ft. It has a standard 96" in high sliding doors at the bottom and on top is a 70"high fixed window setup. In between...

Hi All, I was searching the forum and found this thread but it does not seem like the question from the OP was really answered and I am wondering the same thing. thread784-417284 I am a FL PE and a city is requesting the 3rd party verification process but I have no clue how to do it. And the...

Hi Everyone, I am having a headache getting a professional liability policy. I had one for an entire year and this year they decided to exit the market so I got dropped, I am in Florida BTW and I heard alot of carriers are exiting the market for whatever reason. I had no claims and had my...

Hi, I am doing a simple short circuit calc for a 4 plex. The fault current available is 15625 symmetrical amperes at the 120/240 volts. I selected my bussman C value based on the 750 kcmil wire at 21,387 My calc looks as follows: F = 2 x 75ft x 15625 / (21,387 x 240) = 0.45661 M = 1 / (1 +...

Hi All, I am designing a canopy shade structure for a manufacturer to eventually be used in Florida and potentially other states. Its a 2 column design, the columns are spread 33ft apart with a cantilever shade extending about 11 ft out and with a curved fabric roof structure ranging from 6...

I am working on a beam design that has dynamic loading for a trolly monorail design. The structure already exists, the facility is upgrading their trolly crane system and I am analyzing this existing structure to make sure it can handle the new loads. I have ran the loads and it all checks...

I have a STAAD model and I am analyzing it for deflections and moments. I have 3 different types of beams/columns with varied lengths. I am trying to create a report to give me the maximum deflections per beam type and lengths. I already did the beam displacement summary but this only gives me...

Hi All, Commercial buildout project in Florida - Florida Building Code 2014 I do minor MEP for our plans and we have a stickler as a plan reviewer. Long story short, we are doing a commercial buildout which was combining two units into one. In the middle of the reno the tenant changed his mind...

Hi All, I am working on a generator pad design. I always used L>2B as my criteria for one way slab vs 2 way. The slab that I am designing has a 43"x76" footprint. This does not meet my normal criteria but I do have a continuous support on the long side on both ends. So there is flexure only in...

Hey All, I am trying to determine the best software to choose. I have done some research and thinking of going with Enercalc, TEDDS or MathCAD. I currently use STAAD and my own excel sheets, but honestly not liking STAAD anymore and getting really tedious developing and maintain my own excel...

I'm taking my PE exam next week (I know a bit last minute), and I realized I am missing a couple of referenced books (long story I did purchase, but never came in from Amazon [mad]). Anyone that has taken the exam recently, have you needed them? Should I try to get them overnighted by another...

Hi All, Newbie here! I am working on a structural steel beam system to support a cooling tower. Right now I'm on the column loads, more specifically the flexure design using the AISC equation H1-1b. I know this was probably covered before (tried searching and did not find what I needed), I...