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Structural Engineering Seminar
Whether you normally do a fair amount of light construction engineering in your day to day practice, or if the last time you calculated the solution for a flitch plate was at the exam table (and you used a slide rule) and M=(wl2)/8 is just a hazy countenance that drifts in and out of a foggy memory, the structural engineering refresher seminar, held on 4 and 18 May, was time very well spent.
The day and one half refresher course, taught ably by Trevor Hill and Pat Conlon of the DiSalvo Ericson Group, provided all of us who attended with a well measured and practical update on structural engineering for residential work and light construction.
The course was a great mix of discussion on code requirements, look-up sources, available software and emerging technologies and systems as well as a solid refresher on everyday design issues, engineering principles and typical calculations. Some specific topics included tied roofs, hip[s and valleys and flitch plates. For those of us who do some of our own engineering, the discussion was extremely useful, whether as a reminder, a validation of standard office practice, as an admonition that old textbooks might well be dusted off, or as a small voice counseling a call to your friendly structural engineer.
From the lively Q & A and lunchtime and break conversations, it was clear that attendees received a good deal of valuable information and insight. Across the room it appeared that some conventional wisdom (Of the “We always did it this way!” variety) was jettisoned for some new, and better, practice.
A link to a copy of the slides presented will be available in next month’s newsletter.
Stu Markowitz
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