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  1. NorthCivil

    One Drive - Am I the Last Person Using Dropbox for Business

    in my area i see all kinds of file transfer. Autodesk, we-transfer, google drive, dropbox, microsoft. I personally use microsoft onedrive, as 1TB of storage comes with the basic business subscription (word, excel, outlook etc) which i need anyway. not long ago at the offices i used to work at...
  2. NorthCivil

    What's preventing the LT buckling on the 10m glass fins of Apple store 5th Avenue ?

    the glass fin is slender, but what forces does it really withstand? the fin is only braced on on edge, the other edge is free to warp. my guess would be, if there was a seriously big and wet pile of snow on the roof, and you ran a stringline down the inner edge of one of those fins, the glass...
  3. NorthCivil

    Stone veneer covered deck column

    i imagine the actual strucutral post will be a 6x6 or 8x8 timber up the centre then you will have secondary non-structural framing surounding it to build out the geometry apply the veneer back to the secondary framing ideally the "interior" build up should freely ventilate so as to avoid rot
  4. NorthCivil

    Give me your wisdom: how is plasterboard used in your practice?

    @Greenalleycat im sorry mate you are talking about how "highly ductile" plasterboard/gib is but then in all your descriptions of it, you are describing how poor the ductility is? the plasterboard fails via brittle failure of the board material (the crumbling of the plaster), immediately...
  5. NorthCivil

    Give me your wisdom: how is plasterboard used in your practice?

    yes, i love Australia, but way too uptight, too many rules and fines. my mate went to queensland for holiday and got $6000 worth of speeding tickets in the mail upon his return! kiwis love to gloat that they are far better tradies than the australians... but to be honest, i thought trades in...
  6. NorthCivil

    Give me your wisdom: how is plasterboard used in your practice?

    yes you are reading it right yes, it is a little bit insane. because you effectively cant get any water in that opening, because it has 0 weather protection, they push the windows right outside of the opening, so the glass is proud of the cladding. the craziest part though and the completion of...
  7. NorthCivil

    Give me your wisdom: how is plasterboard used in your practice?

    i am in NZ now but used to practice in Canada last i was in canada, maybe 10 years ago, i think the standard was CSA O-86? had provisions in there that 20% of the lateral force resisting system could be provided by the "GIB" or drywall as we called it. the remaining 80% had to be provided by...
  8. NorthCivil

    Aluminum Embedded on the Concrete (Window)

    honestly it just looks like a drafting error cant imagine anything else or an equally junior CAD draftsman just making things up
  9. NorthCivil

    Apply to Engineering Positions in the US

    There was an engineer from my grad class (civil), with a bachelors only, in canada. he was hell bent on California. he got a local job after graduating, only ended up there for a very short time (a few months), then i guess searched pretty hard and did the TN thing. haven't caught up with him...
  10. NorthCivil

    When to hang up my shingle

    I reckon this is a bit harsh, and unfair. Do you have your own business, CWB1? I know all sorts of engineers in my business. Guys with 25+ years of experience that are absolute clowns, and young engineers with 5 years experience that have picked up the trade very fast, and totally outclass...
  11. NorthCivil

    Tennis Court safety with large crack

    I've often wished I had moved to America. I love the place. But due to the trajectory of my life, i will likely only ever go as a visitor. Reading things like this though, reminds me of the flaws of the great nation. Reading between the lines here, OP is looking for somebody to sue. The...
  12. NorthCivil

    Civil Engineer Entrepreneurs

    I went out on my own at 31 as well. I didnt have a kid at the time, but do have one now. I probably wouldn't have made the leap with a kid, it would have felt way too risky. Hell, i had so many sleepless nights, even though in hindsight, the outcome of failure would have been totally fine. I'm...
  13. NorthCivil

    Residential Deck Question

    looks like a mildly dodgy deck to me. probably wont collapse, but its not an "engineered" solution. this is what i always tell clients in situations when im getting leaned on to sign something off that is generally distasteful. "listen - its not so dangerous that i will call the city...
  14. NorthCivil

    General rant - early career burnout

    @CWB1 From my general understanding, people in general in Australia are very well paid, compared to the rest of the developed world. tradesmen in Australia are very handsomely paid, compared to the rest of the developed world. engineers in Australia, are not all that well paid, compared to the...
  15. NorthCivil

    torsion - measuring deflection in radians

    hi 3DDave yes this method is the simplest. Though is appropriate for "cantilevered" members with a torque on the end, rather than torque on an element with both ends fixed. a member with both ends fixed will rotate much less - this phenomenon seems to have a range of proposed equations that...
  16. NorthCivil

    torsion - measuring deflection in radians

    Thanks everyone for your replies i've gone through a handful of resources - Rourkes, AISC, some miscellaneous papers... it appears there is no standard method... ive got a few different spreadsheets set up and i will run an FEA and see how everything compares. thanks for your time and the...
  17. NorthCivil

    torsion - measuring deflection in radians

    I've got a weird one that i know i could have solved in my university days, but has me scratching my head these days. I have a column, fully fixed at both ends, very tall (~9metres) It is subject to near nil compressive forces, or bending forces (no WL2/8 business). but it is very tall...
  18. NorthCivil

    Pipe attachment to brick veneer

    not ideal especially if the pipe expands/contracts along its length, could impart forces onto the brickwork. the brick if there is any way to fix through the brick to the structural wall behind? or - from your image it looks like you are in there early. could you clamp something/fit...
  19. NorthCivil

    Billing Rates

    @Enable is on the money. What determines rates? of course market forces are a big factor. location, supply/demand. but within a particular market, i find the two biggest drivers of pricing are: 1. Specialization. 2. Level of service. If you do the exact same thing as 50 other firms in the...
  20. NorthCivil

    Billing Rates

    Who is hopeless? billing rates really depends on specialty/industry building construction being quite a lower paying industry, generally, though maybe one of the higher paying industries in NZ (due to our lack of any other big resource economy)

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