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My situation in Puerto Rico is very different from what anyone stateside experiences with building officials. We don't have one. No one looks at what the drawings and documents that are submitted signed and sealed include or omit. You sign a document for the permit application that states that you met ...

The right answer has a huge ethical component. If you have to cut corners to address the urgency and the deadlines, then the standard of care you need to exercise disappears. You should not have to abdicate that responsibility. Try as best you can to force a highly professional level conversation on ...

I think Standards should have an expiration date relative to the availability of a new version of the Standard. The window between new and old should be 6 months. Waiting for ICC adoption makes little sense, particularly with a Standard like ASCE 7. ------------------------------ Ricardo Herrera P.E., ...