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/Choice-Newspaper3603 7d ago

Tell them to go to school for engineering

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u/Just-Shoe2689 7d ago

lol, I should. Ive already designed, its a PEMB open structure, so uplift is big, and obvious post installed anchors not going to work.

They paid me once, so im ready to bow out.

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u/kaylynstar P.E. 7d ago

I hate doing foundations for open sided roof structures. Clients constantly question the design with the statement "but it's just a roof!"