A fire chief stood in a parking lot with arms crossed, waiting for an explanation of why a fire engine couldn’t reach the back loading dock. The site plan showed 20-foot pavement width from the street to a service area.…
A contractor called three years ago about a permit rejection. The second one in two weeks. His drawings showed 4×4 posts, 4×8 beams, decent spacing. But they didn’t show where the ledger bolted to the house, what the flashing looked…
The worst RFI I ever dealt with on a slab job wasn’t about bar sizing or cover. It was about corner reinforcement at an exterior column on a flat plate in Durham, NC. The contractor had 600 tons of rebar…