I am planchecking some plans for various sized retaining walls. The engineer is using Enercalc. The first thing I wondered is if the walls will need special inspection, so I looked down at the Masonry Data and saw that "NO" has been handwritten. However, the engineer also included the...
I've started a new job and inherited some really shoddy typical details. I'm sorting them out as I go along, and today's problem is our shear wall schedule.
I am in California, which uses the California version of the '97 UBC. The schedule I have seems to be based on the '94 UBC (3/8" ply...