Projects in other Cities, states or provinces than your own

[Said the Sky]

For the Structural Engineers out there,

when you do projects that are out of town and in another province how do you do your site reviews to ensure compliance to your drawings? Reason I ask is because I know an outfit here in Canada thats doing projects all around Canada and there is no way they are doing site reviews for any of these projects especially because the jobs generally are small residential jobs but many of them are large homes with full design of walls, foundation, beams etc. Most likely they are reviewing these through pictures only but you can only see so much. Is this considered proper due diligence?

 

[jhnblgr]

What is it you expect to see from a site visit prior to any excavation? Short of doing soil borings or test pits walking the site would not yield much information beyond blatant fill material or swampy ground. Best off looking at historical aerial images and wetland or soil maps to see what you might encounter. At least from a structural standpoint. For a site development standpoint this is where you send land surveyors out for boundary lines, set backs, deed restrictions, topographical survey.

 

[Said the Sky]

What is it you expect to see from a site visit prior to any excavation? Short of doing soil borings or test pits walking the site would not yield much information beyond blatant fill material or swampy ground. Best off looking at historical aerial images and wetland or soil maps to see what you might encounter. At least from a structural standpoint. For a site development standpoint this is where you send land surveyors out for boundary lines, set backs, deed restrictions, topographical survey.

I guess my question is how do engineers ensure compliance with their structural drawings for a project they designed for a location too far away for in person inspections? I highly doubt this outfit is flying across Canada to do even one site inspection on a residential home design.