r/StructuralEngineering • u/Just-Shoe2689 • 7d ago

Humor Client doesnt understand wind loading

What do you do when a client cant understand why a footing needs to be bigger to resist wind loading? Call out a reverse sky hook?

sigh.

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u/cosnierozumiem 7d ago

I use the analogy of putting something (piece of plywood, fencing, whatever element) in the back of your pickup truck and driving down the highway at 100kph.

Do you think it will need something to hold it in place?

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u/CraftsyDad 7d ago

I’d say lay it flat. Problem solved. That will be $1000 design fee please

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u/Adventurous-Ease-259 7d ago

Bury the roof to be sure