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[Yankee Chronicler]

Just remembered: I had a design with a buncha boilerplate barrier-free stuff.
The measurements and requirements were from two code cycles ago in another province.
I rejected the whole thing.

Yeah -- gotta love boilerplate stuff. In 2023 or 2024 I reviewed a set of constriction documents that referenced the BOCA National Building Code.

 

[Inspector Gadget]

Yeah -- gotta love boilerplate stuff. In 2023 or 2024 I reviewed a set of constriction documents that referenced the BOCA National Building Code.

We have a policy that if it's US-designed plan, we can reject it outright. Half the stuff is from one of those 'plans warehouse' joints that has no idea that we have a 1.2-meter frost line and 2-plus kPa of snowload.

 

[arwat23]

When asked why those details are there, the architects cop an attitude and say they're just standard details, if they don't apply the contractor should ignore them. My response is that if they don't apply, they shouldn't be in the drawings.

When I first started working in design, the firm I worked for did that exact thing - had a bunch of details that didn't apply to a project. First project I ever worked on was, to put it simply, answering the contractor's questions regarding these details. Probably got 10 RFIs for those. Pushed what would have been a slightly profitable project into neutral territory. The firm stopped having that sheet after that project.

I'm not very popular ...

Me neither. I say "no" way too much in other people's opinion.

The bane of my existence is interior designers.

Hahahaha! I'm a Certified Interior Designer (CA specific), and I will admit, we're the worst. Every single time I get a plan from any interior designer, regardless of if they're certified or not, I need to make heavy alterations to the plans, and they throw a fit. Once I had a designer throw such a fit that the client threatened to cancel our contract with them (the designer was a relative apparently). I told them that we'll follow the designers plans, but we'll get accessibility and life-safety comments and the project will be delayed. They scoffed at that. Surprise, we're now delayed 2 months and need to go through two additional rounds of comments.

Yes, California is ... unique. I was licensed in California for years. I surrendered my California license when they started requiring continuing education for architects, but they wouldn't accept any of the credits I was able to obtain on the east coast. It was impossible to satisfy their training requirement, so I reluctantly abandoned my California license.

Really? Interesting. Why wouldn't they accept it? Because CA is so unique that whatever they were teaching on the east coast didn't apply to CA? Honest questions, because I don't have an architecture license and I'm curious.

 

[Yankee Chronicler]

Hahahaha! I'm a Certified Interior Designer (CA specific), and I will admit, we're the worst.

I am a registered interior designer in addition to being a licensed architect and a licensed building official.

Really? Interesting. Why wouldn't they accept it? Because CA is so unique that whatever they were teaching on the east coast didn't apply to CA? Honest questions, because I don't have an architecture license and I'm curious.

Most of my in-service continuing education comes from the state's Department of Education and Data Management. California has never reconized my state as an approved provider.