We have traffic overload, media overload, stretched resources, and by the way, reliable news is an oxymoron.
I think we would all agree that to engineer is human, and stressful. Don't you love it?
As you are aware, there is no standard for specifications in the building systems industry. I would appreciate responses to the following questions, and hope that it will be beneficial to many out there.
Does your structural engineering firm provide the specifications to architects or do you...
It is not that owners are too cheap, they are sometimes ignorant of the value of geotechnical investigations. They possibly would not hire a structural engineer, if not required.
Geological formations various approaches to design/specifications. The geotechnical engineer should make the...