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@oldestguy You seem needlessly negative and contrarian while offering no actual help. I plan on forming a LLC as well as holding professional liability insurance for my planned venture. Do you have any suggestions of better ways to protect myself for this venture?

@oldestguy fortunately I have done my research. I know what liability insurance costs and I know in what ways I am able to do business in my state. If I were to do business under my own name it wouldn't make sense to form a llc as I can register with our board of professionals as a sole...

Oh no my state is a bigger pain than anything, I might as well make an LLC for the protection if I already have a bunch of hoops to jump through getting a license on top of my PE even if it's just me with no company and no employees.

I did an evaluation of a building with a lightweight cinder concrete arched roof deck with a normal concrete topping. we had cores done and the separate sections break tested and were able to analyze the arches that way. IIRC the roof was more than adequate for 100 psf live load if they wanted...

Thanks everyone for your help. Ive already bought the book so I'll do some reading over the next couple days.

phamENG, I think the main focus is something that wouldn't sound out of place on projects small and large. For now there will be minimal marketing as I already have long established relationships with contractors, architects and developers so the name maters less for right now. However I want...

rb1957, Ive thought of just using my name with something like consulting or design but it is long and clunky and I've always felt that it made a company feel small (except for architects but you've got to make that name mean something first).

DrZoidberWoop, I love that unfortunately my initials are not nearly as entertaining as that.

phamENG I made sure of that when I took the job, told them it was in the cards for me on my first interview. The legal issue is why I would only do this with a LLC and all the proper certificates and insurance on top of that. That should keep things legally separate, two totally different...

I'm at a point in my career where I have moved out of the residential / small commercial design realm for my 9-5 day job. I've obtained my PE and would like to get back into the smaller project design, inspection and consulting arena on the side. I have the contacts, experience, and the...

Regardless of whether the rest of the deal is equitable or not this one statement seems super bizarre to me. If resources from the other partner's company are used I understand paying the other company for them but not at typical billing rate. Your company should be charged the actual cost to...

I found this site Link which has a lot of information and I formulas for different welds / configurations. I found it helpful as someone moving from the residential world to the commercial side of things. You can even buy the calculation sheets but I've found the site more useful as a...

I didn't say there was an external tensile force that split the joist. I think we are saying the same thing it is an internal tension splitting the joist when it is not supported from below. The nice thing using plywood as a repair is it can take tension and shear in both directions where a...

The plywood will resist the tensile forces trying to split the joist and I cant imagine the longitudinal shear would be the controlling factor in the side plate at the end of a member. If this is a typical uniformly loaded joist the longitudinal shear pulling on the bottom of the joist will be...

You could probably do a partial sistering either with 3/4" plywood or 2x members on one or either side depending on how much room you have and how much force you need to transfer and a connector to the beam (either hanger or angle bracket). Timberlok screws come in 2.5" and 4" length and if I...

phamENG - I've only done new construction on piers. I totally agree with you its super hard to give OP an answer because there are so many variables, 1 story small ranch with piers every 4' masonry sounds easy to make work. That was my whole point, on initial read the reinforcing sounds...

Ive only done elevated house designs in coastal flood zones so the idea of lightly reinforced masonry sounds totally inadequate. It does really matter how big the house is and what the column spacing is. Last one I did was a relatively large 2 story home with 9 columns total to allow cars to...

Found the solution to my own problem. The best way to see the maximum moment for each beam is to go to the graphs tab under beams in post processing and then select envelope on the load case pull down and then select the beam / beams you are interested in. I have attached a picture of this...

I have a section of bridge that i have laid out in STAAD, I have made 2 separate moving vehicle loads on it I would like to find the absolute largest moment in the beams of the bridge. From my understanding the envelope should show the maximum for each beam but it is only showing the maximum...