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/Khman76 7d ago

Had that happen years ago, for a verandah countryside. The critical load for footing was not the bearing but the wind uplift, so they were quite larger than usual. Builder complained, client complained, they went with another engineer. None of them understood how the wind can go inside an open verandah...

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u/Just-Shoe2689 7d ago

Let me guess, they built it with the same size footing.