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by ggcdn 8y ago
That's true, but here's a thought: Using engineered wood products potentially allows undesirable or unconventional wood sources to become useful building materials, rather than having to source old growth timber for larger beams&#
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Doesnt surprise me, I was in San Diego last week and it was funny seeing all these scooters littered around every street corner. In some instances they clogged up sidewalks. I could see how it might spark the ire of some business owners. Sc
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So now what benefits does a subscription offer for a casual developer? If the 3 collaborator limit isn't a problem, is there any reason to keep a subscription?
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No, I assumed the rebar is orientated as the 'strong rope'. If the rebar were positioned as you say, they would yield/bend quite easily.
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You're right, it was the GE-90 that produced 115k. Rest assured, however, that the quantity of #9 rebars remains unchanged.
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I'm a structural engineer, so when I see forces I like to compare them to common forces I design for in buildings. That engine produces 115,000 lb of thrust. If I take typical rebar, fy=60ksi, so I will need about 1.916in2, which is ab
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by ggcdn 8y ago
How do you propose municipal planning departments process, audit, and test the thousands of building permit drawings they receive every year? Have a staff of hundreds of engineers of their own? The professional reliance model seems to work
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by ggcdn 8y ago
I've ordered a couple of things from AliExpress to Canada, the cheapest shipping options take a long time... I think I waited 2 months for a pack of rare earth magnets once. There are FedEx, etc options available but sometimes they are
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by ggcdn 8y ago
I don't know if any parrenting approach can ever make someone like routine housework. Its more about instilling the discipline to do the work in spite of not wanting to, with the reward being a more pleasant household.
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by ggcdn 8y ago
Not sure about UK, but where I'm from this type of single family home construction discussed in the article doesn't normally require a structural engineer. In that case, you really are depending on the reputation of the builder.
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> I doubt that would work as well as aligning incentives. Even if you gave engineers the death penalty for cutting corners they stand to make a lot of money, and most of the time they'd get away with it. How many buildings in Sydney
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by ggcdn 8y ago
Theres a whole field of structural reliability, and it's where they come up with load and resistance factors for design equations, and material testing requirements. I believe the targets are such that the probability of collapse of an
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by ggcdn 8y ago
I don't deal with building envelope. Its not surprising or unexpected that there are differing opinions among various professions on which set of units are more convenient. In Canada, all our building code, material design codes, etc a
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by ggcdn 8y ago
Another anecdote - In structural engineering, US units are way easier to work with, and even in Canada, about 90% the buildings I work on use kips, ft, ksi, etc.
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My sister works at a large inland hatchery, raising atlantic salmon from egg to smolt, and its been neat to watch the investment, automation, and optimization going on there. For instance, they used to vaccinate hundreds of thousands of smo
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by ggcdn 8y ago
Yeah, a lot of the delay is coming from the rezoning and permitting process. There are crazy wait times for large projects because of the large queue of applications, understaffed planning departments, public consultations, and semi-extorti
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by ggcdn 8y ago
Weird, I wonder if the decision to not finance was for religious reasons
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Fair enough, single family homes are a different story because holding costs are so low, and the owner is usually financing the construction. Larger projects have significant construction mobilization (just the crane is costing hundreds of
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by ggcdn 8y ago
Ah, it looked like timbers on my phone, but on a large screen it does look like precast. Definitely not unreinforced concrete though, and not poured in place. You can see how its made up of 6 individual beams https://i.imgur.com&
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by ggcdn 8y ago
The contract was like $350,000 for a bridge in rural Saskatchewan! Of course it's going to be ugly.
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> You know, like most Canadian buildings. Not sure where you got that idea from, but as a structural engineer in Vancouver I generally see the exact opposite. Once construction starts, it's an all out scramble to finish as quickly a
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It looks to me like they are using timbers as beams, simply supported on the steel piers. It's a very common bridge design for forest service roads and other rural routes.
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Big factor for me is the higher-quality discussion compared to say, Reddit.
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I agree with you that it seems like a good idea. However, the vacancy tax is still in its infancy, so we've yet to fully understand its effectiveness or side-effects. A big issue around the housing discussion in Vancouver is the lack o
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by ggcdn 8y ago
I suppose that is the couteous path to take. Personally, I'd love a framework that I could just drop in and it will make things look good with minimal additional markup.
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I really dislike how Bulma doesn't style html elements by default, instead requiring things like <input class="input" ..../> Why not just target input elements with some sensible default styling?
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I think there is a threshold of $100,000 or 200 separate transactions in the South Dakota law that was being challenged [1]. [1] https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/17-494_j4el.pdf
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Excel macros in typescript please!

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