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The site experience can be a problem - not everyone can get a secondment as site engineer. It is possible with IStructE however for your site time to be cumulative as long as you keep good records of it. Every time I go out on site to inspect a property or measure up for a design, that gets...

[/url] You don't want a Structural Engineer Balenza, you want a Civil Engineer (no more jokes required on that one I think). For stuff like that you do need a pro to look it over. You could go and buy the British standards yourself and try to fumble your way through, but it'll cost a few...

What kind of company do you work for (consultancy/fabricator/design & build etc.)? I'm with a small consultancy with 2 chartered (FIstructE), 2 graduates a technician and one older chap with lots of experience but no professional memberships. I luckily get alot of variety from historical...

I'm a year behind you on the experience front, and God knows should be doing alot more on CPD than I am! What do you mean by design inspections? Do you mean inspecting properties/structural works and reporting on the results or do you mean carrying out design work or both? As far as I...

What do you want it to do? If you're just putting pictures up then most on the market will do. If you're building a wall, get a decent spirit level.

I'll try not to be too helpful, else I might get a smiley for my efforts! :roll: The padstone will be flush with the existing brick (102mm as standard). The function of the padstone is to spread the load down and out onto a longer length of the brickwork, without having any mortar joints...

Instinct says don't worry about it -new for old can't be that wrong. Try ringing Building Control at the council - they'll give you the right advice and it won't cost you anything :)

If you look at the section on costs and scroll down a bit, there's a bit about the possibility of having to have an Engineer certify the design (they don't seem to have any Engineer's in their company). If you're getting your own Engineer to do the calcs and just using the website for the plans...

Depends on where you're notching it. If you're doing it near the bearing (and it's not already notched) you might be able to go quite deep - but it'd need to be checked. If you're doing it at the midpoint, you shouldn't be doing anything! In steelwork there's a requirement to keep a...

Can you take some pictures for us to have a look at? From what you're describing there shouldn't be too much to worry about. If there weren't any signs of cracking in the render/internal plaster then it doesn't sound like there's anything major going on. How long ago was the additional...

I think that's what Marshman was getting at, just see how far you can poke! What you're looking to do sounds quite reasonable. Even if the floor is suspended (joists bearing into or hung from the walls), you're putting the tank right at the ends of them, which if you're going to do it, it's...

Isn't boredom fun :) Yup - it can be done. As Del says - what's wrong with a downstand? I spent ages designing a steel option to keep it within the floor depth, then the architect decided he wanted a downstand to give a 'framing' effect to the new extension! For the spans you've got...

Never heard of them before now, but they seem to be alright. The thing that worries me is the bit about "Certifier of Design". I'm not too hot with the Scottish rules, but a job similar to the one you're proposing I would have thought could easily be carried out by an Engineer, with no...

Sounds like you'll need an engineer to design something for you, whether it's steel or not. There's no reason why a normal builder couldn't do something like this. You might need to get the steel made up by a specialist steel fabricator who can do all the cutting/welding for you. Once...