What do you drive on a professional basis.ICE said:I'm a professional driver, not a professional engineer.
What do you drive on a professional basis.ICE said:I'm a professional driver, not a professional engineer.
I did not say that you should review them. But I would ask for them to go with the signed and sealed comments. Sometimes I'll ask this question knowing full well that NO calcs were done. Possibly because the architect is not capable of it. Then they hire someone to get that done and some other solution is provided to me which comes in signed sealed and with calcs.ICE said:Plenty of times I've gotten calcs that were gibberish....of course I didn't know that by looking at them.
The people with the title Plans Examiner at my AHJ are engineers. I don't know what state law has to say about it. Being an ICC certified plans examiner is an indication that one might know a thing or two about the code and has nothing to do with engineering.Does your state required that you be a professional engineer in order to review calculations for code compliance. Seems strange that a plans examiner wouldn't review calculations as part of the plans review.
Quite naturally, a good humor truck.kilitact said:What do you drive on a professional basis.
Yet another continuing problem with rogue individuals. How could someone, who doesn't realize their wrongdoing, be characterized as a rogue individual? Now the guy that doesn't care...he's got rogue written all over him. Where does a guy that knows better and cares but does it anyway fit in.Mark K said:The continuing problem is that some rogue individuals do not realize or care that they are impinging on others rights.
I once did an inspection of an el system comprised of two 2000 amp services and was greeted by an electrical engineer. Not far into the inspection I grew concerned about the engineer and asked him what type of engineer he was. He designed circuit boards. So there you go.the local jurisdictions do not have the authority to regulate the practice of engineering and as such cannot require additional qualifications from the individuals providing those services
It's also common for a city or county to accept everything on face value and not check the engineering at all. I mean. what's the point of hiring a licensed professional if you have to double check his work?In general that would mean that review of calculations would have to be performed by a registered engineer or architect. Wnen a city does not have such individuals on staff it is common for them to use outside consultants.
First off, deck screws comes in different types of metals. If they are stainless steel (or hot dipped galvanized steel screws fine) but we got zinc coated pewter used for deck screws. Yes, pewter. Mostly, those ones come from China. I would have a metallurgical engineer analyze a sample of the screws for material testing to see if they meet the test and are what is specified.steveray said:It's the "reportedly" installed screws...he never saw them, he does not know they are 10 gauge or what quality steel they might be.....can you give me a manufacturer or something to go on......he reviewed what someone told him and said it is adequate.....I might as well just accept letters that say "everything is rainbows and sunshine".....
No, all Steveray has to do is pull in a structural engineer via contract to check the calcs. In general, a building department would use the engineering department but if no one is qualified to check the calcs there, then it would be something on a contract. The calcs would be checked for correctness not for determining if it violates. He would then just have the returned report from the contracted engineer to draw upon in making an approval or disapproval decision.ICE said:That would stall the project while Stevray attends engineering school.
Hey Rick. Hows your studies coming?RickAstoria said:Welcome back from the dead as it seems, Kilitact.
Bit by bit. So far, doing fine.kilitact said:Hey Rick. Hows your studies coming?