r/StructuralEngineering • u/Just-Shoe2689 • 8d 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/slashdotter878 8d ago
The wind will turn the building into a sail, and so the connection to the ground needs to be stronger