List of Contributions

You are free to start using a new version of a standard whenever you like! Codes are a minimum, standards are generally a consensus of the state of the art at a point in time. To be code-compliant on a particular project you may have to duplicate some effort as in using the new standard and checking ...

My firm may be "old school" as we haven't lumped sick and vacation leave into "PTO". I've contemplated PTO but always back off from it thinking what we have seems to work so don't mess with it. Our vacation and sick leave policy is very much just what I received going to work at a private E-A firm in ...

I was a fan of the old system: I paid $100/year. I sent an experience update and got a colleague verification annually. Easily sent my experience record to several state boards. I think Maryland was the record setter, about a week to get the license by comity. Delaware took months even with the NCEES ...

Yes. In the 80s the Army with OERs, Officer Efficiency Reports. Your boss was your rater and his boss was your endorser. Endorsers were required to darken a box with where you fell in their experience. I recall about 5 choices, something like top 1%, 10%, 50%, 90%, 99%. Endorser scoring was tracked and ...

That's a solid approach, going at it from scratch. The original engineer may have his own short cut to getting to an acceptable (greater than minimum required) wind pressure. Looking at the calculation sheet I wonder if he or she was converting from a measured wind speed, a sustained wind speed or fastest ...