Sifu
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For the DP's out there I am curious. I have a sealed plan, from a P.E. It includes a comprehensive set of notes, design criteria, etc, robust foundations, steel columns, base plates, tube steel framing structure. It was approved 6 months ago.
I now received a revision, from a different P.E., with a significantly different foundation. No other plans, so they are trying to use the original engineer's existing design for the remaining structure, but the new foundation doesn't does not work with the previous framing design. When I reached out to the original design firm to ask what is going on, they curtly said all questions need to be directed to the owner.
The contractor has changed from a large commercial contracting firm, to a handy-man service.
The original sealed documents contain the copyright notation. There is no reproduction of the original plans, but they are intending to use pieces of them in the construction.
So what about the revising engineer? I am just curious if there is as much professional irresponsibility here as I think there is.
I now received a revision, from a different P.E., with a significantly different foundation. No other plans, so they are trying to use the original engineer's existing design for the remaining structure, but the new foundation doesn't does not work with the previous framing design. When I reached out to the original design firm to ask what is going on, they curtly said all questions need to be directed to the owner.
The contractor has changed from a large commercial contracting firm, to a handy-man service.
The original sealed documents contain the copyright notation. There is no reproduction of the original plans, but they are intending to use pieces of them in the construction.
So what about the revising engineer? I am just curious if there is as much professional irresponsibility here as I think there is.