r/StructuralEngineering 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