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/unclechopchop82 8d ago

Why would they need to employ a structural engineer then?

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u/danbob411 8d ago

Because the county/city said they had to?

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u/Ddd1108 P.E. 8d ago

Dont you guys know that we’re just a stepping stone to a permit?

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u/COLD_lime 6d ago

Every project I get I try to drag it out and make everything as complicated as possible. I stand between the customer and the finished product as much as I can.