#structuralengineers — Public Fediverse posts

@Aedius @BrianHarrod 'What do we need a structural engineer for? This is a renovation, not a new build!'

Yeah, they probably should've hired a structural engineer. One with experience doing building inspections.

(And if they had one, then they should've hired a better one.)

#Engineers #engineering #structure #structuralengineers #structuralengineering #structuralengineer

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-04/rome-tower-collapse/105967918?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

Pathetic! 13th century #StructuralEngineers employed by Pope Innocent III in Rome need their arses kicking.

I wonder how many multi story #structures that my colleagues and I in the profession have designed are still standing 800 years later?

(not counting obsolescence and planned demolition of course)

First up (for today), building a #choropleth of the active licensed #structuralengineers in the U.S. A linear hue scaling of # of SEs makes a pretty boring map. California dwarfs basically all other states. I'm thinking I might need to normalize the data with pop density.

#dataviz #aec #maps

Back in December, I compiled the data for all of the partial practice (AK, CA, GA, NV, OK, OR, UT, WA) and full practice (IL, HI) states, and post-processed all duplicate licenses to determine what the actual population of licensed #structuralengineers is in the U.S.

*Sigh* I *really* try to not exist in an echo chamber when it comes to the #builtenvironment, but all signs point to there being a fundamental disconnect between where I see the #AEC industry and where it could be headed vs. the industry itself.

I’ve had yet another abstract related to helping #structuralengineers apply practical programming concepts in their daily work rejected from a #AEC #design practitioner’s conference. 🧵

(Workshop was “Open Source Software within Design Engineering Practice”, so I’m sorry I won’t get to spread the #python love and help #structuralengineers migrate from spreadsheets as the word of God)

After this #dataviz got dragged through the mud on @[email protected] (someone posted a link to their PhD to establish that #bridge age is a useless metric), I think I'll stick to cat photos 🤦. There's nothing quite like one-upmanship among #structuralengineers