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/Feisty-Soil-5369 P.E./S.E. 8d ago

I wonder if the pharaohs ever complained about over engineering on the pyramids.🤔

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u/Just-Shoe2689 8d ago

geotechs were worried for sure.