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When you are designing restaurants, bars, bakeries and other food service businesses the number of occupants is a fairly important

Spend any time as a structural engineer that deals with residential structures and you will no doubt be asked to

One of the challenges in designing a large home is conforming with the height restrictions. The most common maximum building

According to the IBC and almost any other sensible building code the answer regarding 1 exit or 2 exits is almost…almost always 2

Good day! Your usual post–tension maniac here, with more exciting information on post-tensioning! A few months ago, I mentioned that

Recently, we’ve had a few projects where our post-tension elongations came up longer than expected. As you’ll recall from my

Have you ever wondered how a mall only seems to have one set of restrooms while an office building has

When I’m requested to investigate a house with structural concerns one of the first things I check is proper floating

iPhoned individuals may be interested to know that Weyerhaeuser has released a productive alternative to Fruit Ninja in the form

It recently while performing routine structural observations it has come to find that the process of treating lumber has changed

I apologize if the title is misleading. The weight I am talking about is the weight of steel beams. Why

Roof slope is one of those architectural features that really can define the style and character of a project. From

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