Re: 16' Garage Door Headers
kilitact said:
well thank you for the advice, I'm well aware of my limitations rick, but it rings hollow, when I see you, a non-professional designer, submit post that appear to advocate your ability, far beyond your scope of expertise.
I have explain before areas of my expertise. Although I am not licensed because I didn't spend $25K-30K a year to go to a university then x number of years of internships and take some exams.
Since the legal system like in Oregon has been a legal system. To become an architect, you got to get your NAAB degree (spending that $25K-30K x 5 years) and then the 3 years of IDP and then exams and don't forget all the fees. This becomes a financial barrier.
I said to myself, I am not going to be bound by these financial barriers and work AROUND and surmount the barriers in other ways. So I chose to be a building designer (then work my way through these barriers). Learn what I need to learn to design buildings. What is going to be taught in architectural school that can not be learned with all the resources that over 10,000 years of history, documents and resources have became accessible at the click of a mouse button. What do you think we made this WORLD WIDE WEB - the INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY. You I learn what is taught ANYWAY. Get the textbook materials that teaches me about engineering, architecture, drafting & lettering, ect. All of which helps and is a necessary knowledge to be acquired to design buildings.
I'm not critical of a person who self-study to a degree of being competent. Being competent is the key of what it is to be professional. Being competent is the degree of level that gives you prudent credential to do the work.
When you call me a "Non-Professional Designer" then you are calling me an incompetent designer because if you are non-professional then you are Incompetent. Non-professional means that you are not competent. Licensure is NOT the only measure of what makes a person a professional. It only is a legal measure to obtain a title and full practice right.
If a person is incompetent then they have no business offering services to the public.
You keep calling me a "Non-Professional Designer". That is like calling me someone who is not competent to design buildings.
That is what it means to call a person a "Non-Professional". A non-professional is someone who does not have the education, experience or skill necessary to do their work independent of supervision & control NOR the competence to offer the service to public. An average / common home owner is a "Non-Professional". They often do not have ANY education or experience in designing buildings. There is very little if any building designer who doesn't have ANY education & experience in designing buildings. The majority of them do it on a daily basis. Many of them have degrees in architecture and/or related topics.
I am not an architect but that does NOT mean I am not a professional. It is an insult to over 200 college credits and over 7 years of 20-40 hours a week of studying architecture/engineering subject matters on my own in addition to formal college education.
Would you say that 75% of the architects before 1919 (when license laws where enacted in Oregon) where all "Non-Professional". If I recall right, it was most of them that wrote the book on what 85-90% of architecture and engineering that we know today is based on. The very equation necessary to calculate the beam header was written over 100 years ago and is still used today.
We are still working on knowledge created 100+ years ago. We simply addressed minimum acceptable standards and I understand and look to the code for what the minimum accepted load conditions. I know multiple ways to perform non-prescriptive designs.
I'm not going to get into that in this response.
