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Flood walls are defined as a wall having its principal function the prevention of flooding of adjacent land. They are designed to hold back water not soil as in a standard retaining wall. But they look similar to retaining walls (inverted T shape). Flood walls need to be designed for...

Does anybody have software that designs flood walls. Trying to design a lagoon wall and want to avoid this iterative process. Thanks

Thanks for the responses. I may use flowable fill. But it is actuall more expensive in this area. The basment wall will be shored on a temporary basis during construction.

I have a 150 kip 11 feet diam. tank that I am doing a foundation for. There are basements of an existing buildings directly adjacent to the tank. I was thinking of pouring a 10' deep x 12'X12' concrete blob in the ground to ensure no lateral pressure against the basement walls. I was...

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I am performing remedial repair to an existing steel 1 story building with bar joists and metal deck. Masonry non loadbearing walls for full perimeter. The back wall steps forward and is discontinuous about 10' so the chord is not continuous. The building is 80' x 235' with aspect ratio 3:1...

Anybody know of good billing software to keep track of progects and time for a 10 person engineering firm? We currently use quick books and timesheets. We dont have a good P&L reports and it is very limited. We are looking into Ajera by Axium and Wind2 Software. Any suggestions? Thank you

Thanks for the replies, 1. I dont think he is going to do option 1. I hope not. 2. This may happen but I think he would rather do option 3. 3. I was thinking since I run the structural and there is another guy that runs the MEP side, that maybe he would let us buy into the company for 24.5%...

I have been working in a small structural & MEP consulting company for about 7 years, and I run the structural side of the business which is me and two other newer people. I feel like my boss needs me more than I need him. I don’t want to just train people to do my work like he wants me to do...