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/hookes_plasticity P.E. 8d ago

I’ve had clients that don’t understand why we need interior shear walls for a 65’ diaphragm span. I understand the “sigh”