No but just a little common sense would help, such as not designing something where #11 rebar had to occupy the same space as five ft anchor bolts, or maybe the seawall in the lower ninth ward having to be redesigned on the fly by a dumbass field engineer while racing against the clock due to unworkable plans. I am not picking on new engineers its just the way it is. Show a little humility and I promise the help is there.

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Posted by CE Tiger

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Posted on 4/9/14 at 8:12 pm to bencoleman

well this thread looks fun...

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Posted by LNCHBOX

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Posted on 4/9/14 at 8:17 pm to bencoleman

My only point is you have to expect new engineers to make those kinds of mistakes. It's part of being a new engineer. I just don't understand why you and others talk about y'all's decades of experience and then seem shocked new hires don't know as much as you.

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Posted by FootballNostradamus

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Posted on 4/9/14 at 8:21 pm to bencoleman

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No but just a little common sense would help, such as not designing something where #11 rebar had to occupy the same space as five ft anchor bolts, or maybe the seawall in the lower ninth ward having to be redesigned on the fly by a dumbass field engineer while racing against the clock due to unworkable plans. I am not picking on new engineers its just the way it is. Show a little humility and I promise the help is there.

We're currently setting and welding a PAR run of about a kilometer in length with 3 spool levels. Someone decided to cram the levels so tight that we have to build external scaffolding to weld each level. If they'd just bumped each level up a foot we could have run scaffold boards off the existing structure. Instead we got meathead scaffies spending hundreds of hours a week throwing boards and tubes around.

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