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Thanks for all the opinions. RPGs I haven’t had any kind of experience with ground penetrating radar. The area under the deck is all slab on grade, with foundations who knows how far down beneath the slab, so I’m not quite sure of the capabilities. I feel like there isn’t that much risk involved...

This is for an industrial wood processing facility. I should actually refer to the piece of equipment as a log deck. Logs are transported into the facility via chain runs on these decks. These facilities are typically built outside city limits and so usually no building permits are obtained and...

Hi there, I would like to know peoples opinion in this scenario, and what course of action would be taken: A client wants you to design a re-build of some old chain decks that are in bad shape. They want to re-use existing columns and foundations, but replace everything else. No existing...

Thanks for the info and examples! I agree I think that if they don’t want to answer a hypothetical question it means they don’t want to say that it doesn’t matter to them

Is this up to you? Are they not able to go through your project files and see for themselves? Seems unusual if you get to pick which project you show them. I feel like that would kind of defeat the purpose of an audit.

Skeletron, I had never heard that point about being physically located in bc brought up yet when I was looking into this. Where would I find a reference to the rules applying if you have a physical design office in bc?

I posed this question to the practice advisory comity of egbc and was told they were not able to give me an answer on hypothetical questions.

Let me provide a better example. In BC it is required to have independent review done on structural designs. In Saskatchewan, it is not (last time I checked). If I am registered in BC and conducting work in Saskatchewan, do I need to have the independent reviews done?

I'm speaking strictly from a legal sense here. I know it would not be ethically correct to not follow any rules or regulations just because they are not required in a jurisdiction, but if there was a particular rule that was required for a P.Eng registered in one state/province and it was not...

If you are registered as a PE or P.Eng in one country/state/province and completing work in a professional capacity to be used in another country/state/province that has very few regulations in comparison to the state/province that you are registered in (let's say little to none in comparison)...

Looks like a great book. I'll add it to the library. Thanks KootK.

I was looking at a good lecture on the aisc portal "fast and Efficient Design for Stability [E4]" Link was also looking at aisc design guide 28. Both seem to give some good comparisons between the two.

Thanks lexpatrie, After looking into it some more I see how much more complicated the effective length method can get in certain situations. I definitely want to wrap my head around applying the ELM properly, but I see now when in doubt I can just use direct analysis method with appropriate...

Thanks for the response lexpatrie, I am more concerned with the mid-section of the beam (regardless of how stiff the connection is at the top) and what effect if any the pinned intermediate level beams would have on this frame. If I were to be using the effective length method for stability...

Hi, I've been trying to understand how one would go about assigning effective length factors to columns in sway frames when all the intermediate floor beams are pin connected to the column? Would it be like I have shown here?: Would I split the column up into sections and use G=10 and G=1 for...