I have not seen it mentioned anywhere on this board, but FIGG has been involved in two major bridge debacles here in Texas. They designed two new cable stayed ship channel bridges, one in Houston and one in Corpus Christi, each with a total construction cost just shy of 1 billion. Well the...
So I have a situation where a C-purlin in connected interstitially between two other purlins (a beam spanning between two girders), and the method of connecting them together at the joint is shown as a single sheet metal screw top and bottom through the flanges of both members. The purlin in...
So I have a bar joist where a contractor core drilled through the top chords, just like Kootk's post from a week ago. It's in an older office building with no readily available information on the joist in question. I had the idea that I could design a simple chord reinforcement to reinstate the...
I am going to take the April 13 PE Exam.
Civil breadth and construction depth.
I am an engineer with 14 years experience, 4 in structural design and 10 in design, fabrication, transport and installation of offshore structures.
Now I find myself working as consultant (3rd party review and...
