On Oct 28, 10:38 pm, Clyde Slick wrote:

i am not an engineer, but i retired from a civil engineering office.
the requirement is more for signing, sealing and certifying plans.

btw, my job was real estate acquisitions.

One may purchase an engineer for a fairly reasonable hourly rate. You
may not like what they do for you as most (good) engineers tend to be
moderately conservative and want their designs to be moderately
enduring, so most (again, good) engineers tend not to like poor, fast,
quick or dirty solutions. I often explain to the people I work with
that whereas I am emphatically not an engineer, I do recognized when
there is the need for one. Similarly, when other design professionals
are required such as Architects.

At this time, our company has two engineers best described as 'on
call', both have been around since more-or-less the beginning of time
- one of them was my structures professor in grad-school, the other
mentored him in his early years of practice. It is quite an experience
to listen to these two guys when they get started. And both of them
will be down in a hole or up a ladder faster than most people a third
of their ages.

Peter Wieck
Wyncote, PA