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    Digital Seal and Signature

    Does this matter if you place the seal in CAD and publish to PDF? Or only if you place as stamp or image in the PDF?
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    Typical Details

    For most of the data that would change in a standard detail or note, I don't make that decision in AutoCAD. We use sheet sets, and all variables that are subject to change in a detail or general note are setup as a SSM field. We make all the decisions for these notes in Excel (where we have...
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    Digital Seal and Signature

    Is there any legal ramifications of not applying a digital signature to electronic submissions because the AHJ won't accept the security on the PDF (while also only accepting electronic submissions) even though the board/state requires it? I'm just curious if anyone has had an issue play out...
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    Digital Seal and Signature

    I know this topic has been discussed before, but I would like to see if the opinions have changed in recent years. What is your practice for digitally sealing documents? For my particular case, I had been applying a photocopy of my seal with signature to every page, then additionally applying a...
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    Insurance Limits

    I carry $2M/$2M. I do a lot of DOT work. A lot of the contractors doing those jobs require this amount, even if the DOT does not. Most of my commercial clients only require $1M/$1M.
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    Question for California PEs: PE as RIC for a Business — Legal and Compliant

    @dgengineering are you currently employed by a company as a W-2, and trying to do some moonlighting, or are you currently not employed by anyone (other than your own business/yourself)? Trying to run a company as an EIT in the engineering space will be near impossible for many reasons, aside...
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    Modular Block Wall With Geogrid Into Bedrock

    Agreed, pins would be a bad idea. If external/global stability allows it, I recommend wrapping along the rock face like this: And if external/global does not allow it, anchors should be attached to a pipe and the geogrid wrapped around the pipe like this (substitute concrete anchors for rock...
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    Modular Block Wall With Geogrid Into Bedrock

    If global stability and seismic will allow it and you have fully stable bedrock, you can reduce your grid lengths as low as 0.3*H. NHI/FHWA has a great guide on Shored MSE (SMSE) walls: FHWA SMSE If you are reducing below the typical lengths (<0.6*H), I typically lap geogrid up along the rock...
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    ChatGPT - Nice!

    I think this risk overstated especially if you are using a paid version and elect for it not to train using your data. It would be no different than storing your files on Onedrive/dropbox/Shareppint, etc. (actually if you read their terms and conditions, paid ChatGPT may be a safer place to...
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    Tips on cold emails?

    @timlodge the 80/20 of SEO is provide valuable content consistently (once a week or bi-weekly), make sure that content is "tagged" correctly, then post it everywhere (facebook, LinkedIn, or whatever are your main social media). I used some of the free wordpress tools to make sure I had a meta...
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    Wooden retaining wall with dead man anchoring

    Here are some resources on crib walls that I have extrapolated for designing walls with deadman anchors.
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    Legal Thoughts on Stamping Plans

    I see nothing wrong with this in a US context. But this is still a stark contrast to what the OP is doing: not adding a separate structural notes/details page, not including notes that specifically state what the seal certifies, etc. If the OP incorporated these, add their company info (who...
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    Wooden retaining wall with dead man anchoring

    How tall of a wall are you checking? Most of the resources I have seen are either rules of thumb or for crib walls. There is very little out there for calculating the internal stability of a wooden deadman system.
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    Legal Thoughts on Stamping Plans

    I am not in the building industry, but I get where you are coming from. From what I hear, the AHJ is requiring an endless amount of paperwork that would cost your client half the cost of building the dang structure if they hired each of the specialties that would normally be required on a large...
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    Retaining Wall Inspection Criteria

    I would generally stay clear of timber walls. Most of the resources that are helpful predate the change in allowable pressure treatment for typical wood. With that said, here is a resource for walls up to 4 ft in height...
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    Sole proprietor as engineer or business man.

    XR250 at what point is a board of advisors or mentor needed? At a certain staff level, gross revenue level? An LLC is legally required to have at least an annual meeting. And if in the corporate documents create a board and have a requirement for having board meetings in your documents, then...
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    Sole proprietor as engineer or business man.

    Taking your family to Disney, no. But if you spend several days at a conference in Orlando that is close to the weekend, what you do in your off time is irrelevant to the IRS. Meeting your board members at a half way point between you and your board members' houses (that just happens to be in...
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    Sole proprietor as engineer or business man.

    Unless you have one client and are essentially separate entities for liability purposes, anything more than this I would consider a business with you as the business owner, even if you do not have any employees/contractors/outsourcing. Whether you are a sole proprietor, LLC, Scorp, etc. is...
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    One Drive - Am I the Last Person Using Dropbox for Business

    I use OneDrive for Business and have no complaints. I have not had the issue of it trying to save my desktop files like someone mentioned, but I purposely don't sign into the personal OneDrive for this reason. It works great for version history and collaboration especially if you have 2 people...
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    Artificial Intelligence in Structural Engineering

    I am on the wait list for Work Beaver, which is an AI Agent of sorts and supposed to do tasks on your desktop using any application you tell it to. This is where I see the big time saver and benefit in AI tools. If we can eliminate all the non engineering stuff (creating folders, uploading...

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