Yankee
Registered User
If engineers plans are accepted just design criteria may be reviewed. Many jurisdictions do not have the ability to hire someone like vegas paul, or the political will to require third party review (or even the political will to require engineered solutions sometimes). That's life in the boonies. So for those of us that do everything and are generalists, and don't have an armload of code specific certs or degrees, we do what we can. Part of that is not to pretend to have reviewed a submittal if it is not something we are qualified, or have time, to do. The next best thing is to expect to hold the licensed designer responsible (as he is). If your jurisdiction has the ability to take responsibility for the engineering of engineered plans, then, more power to you.