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Every week Google sends me a Google Alert for the search term “structural engineer” with the latest news articles featuring our world of structural engineering.
Let’s go through the articles together and see what’s happening in our local world of structural engineering.
Links are below the video.
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Looking at the consulting engineering market right now, I see that there are two qualities of engineering firms out there at the moment.
There’s the way under-priced engineering consultant working for the big building companies.
They’re sending their technical work overseas and/or getting it done in the equivalent of engineering sweatshops right here in Australia. They’re cutting corners on their designs.
They’re missing the mark on quality in exchange for way too cheap prices. They are missing or allowing serious issues to develop unchecked.
The rules for building over and near existing council-owned buried infrastructure (including sewer mains, stormwater pipes and underground electrical cables) vary from region to region.
There are two main reasons for these rules:
Mr Rob Hughes, semi-retired director of engineer consultancy heavy-weight Hughes, Beal & Wright, has forgotten more about investigating structural damage than many engineers will ever know.
So when Rob agreed to let Cornell Engineers share his guidelines for investigating structural damage, we were super-excited to take this opportunity to publish his truly exceptional insights.
Structural engineers, forensic engineers and up and coming engineers: please read on.