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Yes, the official stance is that it’s an undeniable scientific fact that climate change is rapidly intensifying disasters like these. Code red for humanity and all that. That’s the message they present. Yet, behind the scene. there’s only “low confidence” in this assertion, as yoi reference...

I can’t read a lot of the page

If definite query it. We are fixing a 25 year old warehouse at present, which was likewise built on soft ground (based on tests we just did), and which has settled 100mm along one edge.

https://amp.abc.net.au/article/104487914 Silo collapse, spilling a lot of grain into the river.

Dik posting his fake Cuba stats again, oblivious to how stats work in authoritarian socialist societies.

You need to check the outside corner of the column within the 450 zone as this will see disproportionate punching shear stress. Similar concept to checking punching shear at walls ends: https://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=454148

By protection I meant the epoxy in this instance. Epoxy soaked wood is pretty robust. I use it in marine settings. Do you have thicker epoxy for the rod?

If you really coat it well with epoxy, and fully plug up the holes, it will be ok. Note that when you cut treated timber, the cut faces are not treated, so you really need to protect them well. If you don't need moment connection then it's a lot easier. Those 150mm/200mm long bugles are great...

Canada's rot is going right to the core.

Do you know when it appeared? Sometimes bricks have these cracks to begin with. The adjacent chips could be signs, but could also be coincidence.

This is a stupid idea! You should dig it out! Now that's out of the way. What is the finish you are trying to achieve? If it's simply too small I'd be more inclined to enlarge the post with new cover plates. But yes, you can embed a post (or some heavy dowel), and sleeve the new post on top...

The rebar doesn't have to yield simultaneously with the steel plates. It is common to have rebar at different layers in concrete beams. That being said, the rebar and the plate can't be too far out of sync. If you simply bolt on plates, with normal holes with 2mm clearance, the beam will have to...

It’s a rather odd term, isn’t it? One of those counterintuitive phrases—like ‘inflammable’—that seems to imply the opposite of what it actually means to most people, except for those in the know - which as we see here doesn’t even include all engineers. Why they opted for ‘under-reinforced’...

How will these bolts achieve composite actions without any sort of slip? Are they special bolts?

We're engineers. Intentions don't count. Only results do.

That's their general principle. It is an existential crisis, therefore the cost is irrelevant, especially given it will be born by others. As Al Gore said, people like him who are saving the world, are too important to be constrained by the sorts of limits he proposes for the world at large.

That’s a vague slogan which, while loosely accurate (yes, human emissions have contributed to some warming), is weaponised to back every alarmist prediction of the moment. This week in Australia, we're being told that climate change will make floods worse, bringing "wetter" summers from here...

I always assumed this meant discontinuous all four edges discontinuous.

Yes, there’s a text book motte-and-bailey tactic in the climate change debate. The bold claim is that climate change is an immediate existential crisis requiring drastic action. But when this is questioned, advocates retreat to the safer claim that climate change is real and caused by humans—a...

They were so ‘effective’ that the definition of ‘vaccine’ had to be altered—removing ‘provides immunity’ (as vaccines like the polio vaccine once did)—to keep these mRNA treatments classified as vaccines. They didn’t provide immunity, didn’t prevent transmission, and failed to stop the spread...