These days I have been doing a lot of work on additions/modifications to older homes. Many of these roofs are framed in ways that are hard to model and review. Commonly there is a hip roof with no posting (presumably a tension ring is holding them up), or gables with no ridge and no effective...
I have a client who wants to hire me to review a near completed rooftop deck installation. He is unable to reach to original engineer, the contractor made field changes under the direction of a second engineer, and then died. No one knows who this second engineer is. The original engineer is...