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Trying to bump my own question to see if it gets more traction hopefully

I'm mostly involved in traffic and planning engineering. I'm doing some research on damage to bridges from freight moves to further my understanding on the topic. What I'm looking to do is to estimate the damage on the different types of bridges (steel vs. concrete), (old vs. new), (long vs...

QGIS, GRASS, UDIG are one of the better ones. I'm heavily involved with GIS, keep asking, and i'll keep answering

1. I wasn't trying to take any jobs from you 2. I wasn't going to design a building to be built without being confident and competent at it. I wanted to learn it for my self. I like to understand how things work and how they are built. IF after a few years of mentoring through the association or...

@MainMan10 the ideal situation would be to stick with transpo, but be able to do small structural jobs here and there, a small basement here, a 1 story structure there, if you know what I mean

For now, I'd like to do the calcs by hand and Excel, I know I could use a software for it, but I fear doing so will hinder my learning experience

Hey All, I've been doing traffic and transportation engineering for the last 6 years. I love it and all, but I'm finding more and more that my passion and interests are with structural. I'm not a total ignoramus in structural but at the same time, I'm no guru either. If it matters I live in...

@dik , New Brunswick says Hello! The first is constructed right now, and they're only going to go ahead with a second story, and nothing higher, as new building regulations in that country will not allow them to go higher than 2.

@csd72 and others: Foundation plan: http://97.107.136.148/scan321.pdfhttp://97.107.136.148/scan321.pdf

@csd72, the house was built 25 years ago. According to them, they built the house so they can extend it upwards later on.

@ThomasAaron : I agree about involving a structural, but for now, I'm just drawing up options. I have the diagrams for the footings; however, I don't know nor do i want to venture in calculating them. I'm drawing up the plans to give the client options that they can decide on.

As a traffic engineer who is looking to switch to structural within the next year; I was wondering, how can such structures be built? Feel free to be as detailed and digressing as possible. http://www.hlminteriordesign.com/cantilever-architecture/

@frv, I've been in traffic and transportation engineering for 4 5 years, but before that and during was designing "architecturally" buildings and laying out space. I'm looking to fully transition to structural within the next year or so, just trying to find employment that'll take people like me...

@frv - Space layout. I haven't really worked with Concrete based structures before. I'm just organizing the space upstairs to fit two apartments.

As a note, the first floor is built, I'm designing the second floor layout and not structural elements. I just wanted to make sure before presenting this plan that it is actually potentially doable

Sorry for the short title as it is limited in Number of Characters. I do some building design on the side, here is the situation: * According to the design plans, the building was built for 4 stories (1+3). * I'm designing the second floor right now, however, I'd like to rotate some of the...

I realize this question has been posted many times now, and i'm not sure there is a way to delete this thread

Here's one: the thickness of a steel beam in inches is usually half of its size in feet. For example, a 10' beam would require 5" steel. What are yours?