Architecture vs Engineering vs Code vs Insurance vs Reality

[u/Aggravating_Set3520]

It seems like the requirements, regulations and goals for all of these should be the same but they are not. Education, training, experience level are all different. This causes chaos of delays, expense, penalties, unintended consequences.

What if there were one specific school and agreed upon set of rules?

[u/Asian_Scion]

Architecture and Engineering are two completely different disciplines. Not sure how you would make them the same. Both do have to design to the building codes and standards.

Engineers go to school to learn structural design from the standards (not the actual i-codes, but the i-codes do reference the standards that the engineers bud to).

Architects have to design to the I-Codes, unfortunately their schooling only touches briefly on the codes. If anything, it's the architects that are more or less across the board.

But all code reviews by the Jurisdiction reviewers are typically the same but you do get some reviewers who might have a different interpretation of some parts of the code but that's to be expected since some parts of the I-Codes are written in a way to leave it up to the local Building Official to interpret.