I am an engineer who works as an independent contractor and I have a client who wants to take me on as a part time employee. He says that he will be able to pick up certain contracts if he can show that he has a PE on staff. The plan is that he would pay me some meager salary for the...
I want to use allowable stress design in combination with the overstrength factor.
When the new code came out (2006 IBC), some colleagues and I came to the conclusion that equations 5-8 of ASCE 12.4.3.2 were off limits because IBC 1605.4 only provides for strength design in combination with...
I'm weighing hiring a drafter. Also looking into outsourcing drafting to India or other such low labor cost source. Any experience or helpful information?
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ASCE 7-05 6.5.6.3 says, "An intermediate exposure between the preceding categories is permitted in a transition zone provided that it is determined by a rational analysis method defined in the recognized literature"
I need to use this provision to reduce loads for my current project. Does...
I am a P.E. in California and I'm doing some marketing for my new business. I have been reading the Professional Engineer's Act and trying to decipher which way I can use the words "structural engineering". It is clear to me only that I cannot use the title, "Structural Engineer" without an S.E...
The UBC had a category for roof live load for greenhouses, lath houses and agricultural buildings of 10 psf (Table 16-C). I'm designing my first ag building under the IBC and can find no such provision. Must I double to 20 psf for flat roofs now?
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-PSwan
