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How about providing both short-term and long-term disability insurance. It's quite inexpensive as a company-owned group policy (about 1% of payroll,) but it shows that you care about your employees. It's also nice to have when someone gets cancer, etc., and you won't feel like a heel when you...

It sounds to me like you will be very succcessful on your own. If you have built up a client base and a successful structural dept already, then you can surely do it again! Don't worry about the particulars of what clients will go with you. The real question to ask yourself is whether you...

My understanding of the ICC answer posted above (answer A1) is that a "deck" can be considered to be a "special purpose roof" with a different live load Lr than a typical roof. This is equivalent to a special roof that is also a garden, assembly area, pedestrain walk-way, etc. Therefore, one...

Ditto here in Utah

Just say NO! I've inspected quite a few concrete basement walls with stress cracks caused by this type of construction, and also basement walls for "daylight basements" that weren't adequately braced and then developed long diagonal cracks extending from the top corner diagonally down toward...

Darren: Actually, the jack studs / trimmers are specified so as to prevent the header wood from crushng, not the jack stud. The ability of wood to withstand compression parallel to the grain (against the end of the jack stud) is greater than the ability of wood to withstand compression...

I think that Simpson Strong-Tie makes a product to address your concern. It is a rectangular plate with a hole in the middle for the anchor bolt, and then four screws (one at each corner) to screw down to the sill plate. It is often used to remedy over-drilled holes for the anchor bolt.

That is certainly the contractor's error, not yours! If the beams were specified as noted, then it's his responsibility to verify what he gets from the lumber yard. I have not had any problem with 24F-V4 glulams being available in any of those sizes. We specify them all the time. You might...