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This is my opinion. The engineer of record is ultimately responsible for the final design, and every body that contributes to the final design must be under the EOR's responsible charge. It doesn't matter if the person contributing to the design is a fellow engineer licensed in the same state...

I was 31 when I went out on my own, after just welcoming a kid (I now have 2). I love it and would never look back. As far as supporting your family, I calculated I only needed to make $100/day 5 days a week to support our family if my wife lost her job (we also had investment income coming...

bimr - The low-point of the wall is at the opposite corner from the street. The wall is U-shaped at the back of the property at the low-point with the street at the front being the high point.

Thanks EireChrch, it is a re-occurring theme recently. I will likely be giving this one a call later today, but I'm hoping to develop a boiler plate response I can give for this type of issue going forward.

I am designing a small retaining wall 5-ft off the property line with weep holes. The town permitting department rejected the design because there are "downspouts" (to use the town's language) that will pour water onto the neighbor's property. The wall is flattening out the site, but the...

"Sketches" should have been in quotation marks, but an out from Gslope or ReSSA could be interpreted as a sketch. On smaller projects, I typically see the person onsite as a third party inspector, not the geotechnical engineer or a representative from their firm. In practice, I rarely see the...

I don't have experience with pole barns, but I do a lot of retaining walls. We typically design the structural aspects of the wall, while the geotechnical engineer does the global stability and portions of external stability. We clearly state the delineation of responsibility in our drawings...

I would want to run that in a global stability software with ground water at an estimates flood elevation with drawdown, even if the geotech doesn't think it necessary. Having more embedment or an undercut for that case may be necessary.

A good geotechnical engineer with knowledge of local soils could look at the topography of the site and determine whether global stability is necessary. I was involved recently with a project where a geotechnical engineer did something similar (they did visit the site and perform a couple...

Hi Robert, I can confirm this is the legitimate website for renewals, and I renewed my firm license using this site a couple months ago and received my new firm certificate. I received the email to renew directly from the GA SoS, using an email address I only use with the GA SoS. I also...

My business has grown to 4 people, and I am looking for a solution to track my team's time to specific projects so I can track profitability by project. We do not have billable hours, no do we tie hours worked to payroll, so this will just be an internal tracking tool. I am looking for a tool...

Generally there is a tolerance for the wall batter, say 2-degrees from the design batter (confirm with the wall design drawings). The batter should be checked. You can monitor the face for rotation and sliding. From your picture, I would be concerned about the foundation being undermined and...

This is what I have been told too. If you own the business, are the only employee/worker, and are sued, the judge will rule that the corporation only exists to provide you, the individual, asset protection and the judge will not view you as substantially different from your corporation. The...

You have a business the moment you agree to receive money for a good or service, period. Legal entities are there for additional tax/legal benefits. To add on to what jhnblr said, when you are a sole owner and worker of an LLC, there is virtually no legal protection of any kind. When you have...

As someone who designs retaining walls, a big frustration of mine is when there is no clarity on what the "allowable bearing capacity" is actually referring to. A too often scenario: I will get a geotechnical report that states the allowable bearing capacity is 2,000 psf for the retaining...

bookowski - do you know if a global stability analysis was performed considering the building?

This would be pretty easy to model the wall with the vertical load from the footing applied to the wall. I would have the wall designer model it. Worst case is the wall will need stronger grids or more grids below the footing (assuming the wall is not build yet or the wall gets rebuilt). You...

I responded to your post in the structural forum too. Have you considered having someone that specializes in SRW design that portion of the project for you? It might be cheaper than the time to teach it to yourself for one project. You are typically dealing with sandy clay in Charlotte...

TRAK.Structural - I went from doing almost solely DOT MSE/SRW walls to a lot more residential over the last couple years. Here are a few things I have learned about smaller residential walls: - Regardless of what you specify for the reinforced fill zone, there is a good chance the contractor...

I 100% agree this is a phishing risk. Some of the ways I avoid this risk for both my PE and business registrations: 1. I use a unique email for each service that forwards to my main email (simple login or 33mail). This way, if they mine my email and send a phishing email, I know where the email...