List of Contributions

These are all critical and I would like to reinforce the point that sketching concepts, details, etc. freehand is critical. I have mentored people who think that their comfort with using a CADD program will replace freehand sketches. Whether it is paper and pencil or a notebook with a stylus drawing ...

Hi Joerg-Martin, I too tried to design too close to the limits. I also saw how critical it is to understand how reinforcing goes together and leave a little more space than is required by code when I was on site for a pour and the designer had left the absolute minimum spacing between the bars. ...

This is a really important question, and I think that since we design to a code we think of additional capacity as "over" design. Because codes are a minimum, additional capacity is "right" design. Not providing the extra capacity and having the pipes clog is a design failure, therefore following the ...

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Hi Michele, you remind me of when BIM started. I had all these people in upper management saying, "just push a button." They did not understand that it did not work that way. Nor did they understand that if every rebar was in the model it would take hours to process. They thought that clashes would be ...