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Personally, I think it's a reasonable case for a complaint against the engineer to the Board. This in my opinion is a breach of ethics. Using a disproven method that has never even been used on houses to facilitate in an insurance claim borders on fraud. George Runkle, P.E. S.E. M.ASCE President ...

That sounds like a plan to me. I will try to do just that. ------------------------------ George Runkle, MS, PE, SE, M.ASCE President Runkle Consulting, Inc Lawrenceville, GA ------------------------------

That was a serious failing where I got my Bachelor's degree, I don't think too many of my professors had practical experience, and only a couple had PE's. OTOH, when I went for my Master's Degree at Columbia University, most of my professors had impressive real world experience in what they taught. It ...

A serious problem I've had with engineers I've hired is that about half of them could not write. Not even decent paragraphs on inspection reports, much less any kind study or extensive report. They couldn't handle business letters, or even simple office communications. I don't know how they got through ...

I use SMath, which is a freeware version of MathCAD. I use it for a lot of my calculations that I normally would do on paper because it allows you to see the formulas, and you can structure the sheets the same way. Also, it does standard programming stuff like if...then statements and Boolean logic. ...