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  1. ANTHAE

    NFPA Code 1990

    We have a one-story office building, masonry and timber truss, just under 10,000 square feet, built in 1977 but considered by the jurisdiction to fall under the 1990 UBC. There are no sprinklers in the building, and we are planning tenant improvements to remodel the existing office space over...
  2. ANTHAE

    Your Hydraulics Thinking Cap On?

    Assume an existing rectangular concrete flume, slope varying from 0.020 to 0.040, width from 12' to 24', vertical wall height from 3' to 12', overall length 2500'. ACE-style "channelization". Plan to construct and install precast weirs at average 25' oc, bevel-face, vertical back...
  3. ANTHAE

    How much notice?

    USER ASSUMES ALL LIABILITY FOR USE OF THESE OBSERVATIONS If you have worked for your employer for 8 years, and gone from draftsperson to EIT, then you are well within your rights to ask for educational assistance and unpaid leave while you get your act together for a year. An MS/MA will...
  4. ANTHAE

    Unethical Hiring Practices

    USER ASSUMES ALL LIABILITY FOR USE OF THESE OBSERVATIONS I've worked as a road warrior, a head-hunter, and built my own consulting firm, giving me a little persective. When it comes to love, and work, there are no ethics. Recruiters twenty years ago were a LOT better than today, more...
  5. ANTHAE

    Drainage Question

    USER ASSUMES RESPONSIBILITY FOR USE OF THESE OBSERVATIONS We reviewed such a situation as you described, with the downspouts connected to the perimeter foundation drains. Apparently, it's actually mandated in some jurisdictions. Not only did surface drainage leach down the foundation and cause...
  6. ANTHAE

    Horizontal drain alternatives

    USER ASSUMES RESPONSIBLITY FOR USE OF THESE OBSERVATIONS Many years ago we worked on the Barometer Mountain landslide in Kodiak, caused by excavation for road fill at the base of the mountain. It bulged at the bottom and cracked at the top, and many high-level people flew out and looked at it...
  7. ANTHAE

    40 ft of peat at tip of landfill

    USER ASSUMES ALL LIABILITY FOR USE OF THESE OBSERVATIONS. You might find a bentonite:cement:soil slurry wall is cheaper than sheet pile, more flexible and leak-tight. Figure about $200 a running foot, and no call backs. As the landfill pushes closer, might use a geotextile- wrapped native...
  8. ANTHAE

    Engineering properties of petroleum coke ash (cross post)

    Contact Coker Automation in Lynden, Washington &quot;CokerAutomation.com&quot; <mail@baysideeng.com>
  9. ANTHAE

    Use of Inflatable buildings as temporary site offices.

    Jag001: We built a 30' inflatable dome for a temporary office when we were researching environmental policies down in WA DC. The acoustics were terrible, then one summer squall, it split wide open and everything was soaked through and through. We worked on raising an 80' inflatable dome to...
  10. ANTHAE

    Design by rule of thumb

    I'll add one thumb I've learned from hard personal experience: If you're hired to watch a contractor perform a particularly complicated structural erection or a complex mechanical startup operation, stand well away from the action(!!), and NEVER let anyone catch you sitting down or stiffling a...
  11. ANTHAE

    Institution of Civil Engineers - Virtual Library

    Austim: Have point to discuss re IceKnowledge. http://anthae.tripod.com/anthae.html then click through e-Inquiry button. Anthae
  12. ANTHAE

    STAAD vs. competitiors

    Some years ago I researched (then) FEA CAE software and wrote a treatise for Architectural & Engr'g mag on my results. Here's what I discovered: In reading between the lines of software developers' warrantees, and university peer comments, the accuracy of any CAE software, whether it's STAAD...
  13. ANTHAE

    Structural Shop Drawings

    Our firm has in the past provided schematic shop drawings to clients, to assist in their takeoff and estimating for construction bid. We're looking to streamline our operation and out-source that service to a CAD shop. What is an appropriate cost structure for taking structural layout drawings...

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