Executive Summary On February 20, 2021 a Boeing 777 airplane lost an engine during flight over Colorado. The engine failure was catastrophic and could have resulted in hundreds of deaths. The plane landed safely back in Denver. This failure highlights the greatness of engineers. Here’s a link to the story […]
Optimizing the Contractor’s Professional Engineer
Executive summary. Do you often need a professional engineer to facilitate the construction at your projects? Here’s how to pick your engineer and to guarantee the quickest turnaround of the product you need. Needing a professional engineer. You have traffic control, concrete formwork, deep excavations, shored trenches, worker tie-offs, or […]
What is Section Modulus, S?
Executive Summary: One of the most basic properties of a beam is its section modulus. How does the section modulus, S, come into play in structural design? And, why should I care? What is a beam? Keeping it simple here, a beam is a horizontal member supported at two ends. When you stand in the […]
Why be an Engineer: It’s the Mornings
Executive Summary: A recent article by the American Bar Association caught my eye. It was entitled “When is it okay for a lawyer to lie?” I could probably end the article right here. I’ll keep going. [QR] Contemplating a law career. Yup, I get it, you know someone who watched television like the rest […]
The Engineer Was Negligent
As published in Civil Engineering, February 2017 Click for PDF The Law in the June 2016 issue ( “Engineer Found Negligent for Not Verifying Product Data,” page 92) discussed a legal case in which a contractor installed an engineer-specified rain tank that later failed, causing financial damage to the project owner. […]