A client of mine has come to me with a project where he is involved in renovating an existing two story building. The existing building is a round timber column, 16" x 12" girder, 4" t&g decking type of structure.
The construction documents require that the first floor columns be removed and...
I have been asked to design a cast-in-place concrete retaining wall that will retain water, not soil. As it turns out, the client wants to use this wall to act as the dam for a small retention pond. The wall can retain as much as 10' of water.
Typically, in retaining wall design, I would...
OK...I'm out on my own with a new Structural Engineering consulting business. I have work, which is good, but now I've got to track my time and bill my time by my hourly rate........I've also got a project coming up that will be a fee job.
Do you guys have a suggestion as to what software to...
I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on the following:
If a single engineer is opening a consulting business, with long term plans of having only himself and maybe a draftsman or two as employees, should the business be incorporated, be a limited liability company, or neither?
Any opinions?
When using composite slabs (3 1/4" concrete over 2" metal deck for total slab thickness of 5 1/4") where do you guys allow a construction joint to be, if the GC decides he needs one?
Could this joint be at the midspan of the typical floor beams? This would seem to make since to me as the shear...
