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Copied from Eng-tips https://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=485307 MEXICO CITY, July 14 (Reuters) - A Mexican court has sentenced a man to 208 years in prison for the criminal homicides of 26 people, most of them children, who died when a school collapsed during a powerful earthquake that struck Mexico City in 2017, authorities said on Wednesday. The Mexico City attorney general's office said it had shown that the man described as a works director had guaranteed the structural safety of the school in Tlalpan, a southern district of the capital, without carrying out the required testing and despite irregularities in the building's construction.

I have observed in the past 6-month that there is a real need to bring together and promote the profession of Structural Engineering in Pakistan. To start the process we are working on a platform PASE - Pakistan Association of Structural Engineers (www.pase.pk). This is a voluntary setup and the aim is to promote practical aspects of structural design and construction in Pakistan. We have started with a simple website, which s in early stages of development (baby steps). Interesting to note that the idea came about after a post in SEPAKISTAN. Whilst nothing is easy in Pakistan, (which makes the challenge more exciting), we aim to make inroads and bring the "Pakistan Structural Engineering Profession" to International Standards by knowledge sharing on real practical design and construction topics - so you can be equipped to compete with the right skills in both national and Internationally against other consulting engineers. For forum and discussions, the PASE website directs the visitor to this SEPAKISTAN forum....which i think works great, so congratulations to Sepakistan team - great set up guys. First challenge is to compile a "Pakistan Building Reinforcement Detailing Manual", and make it available on the website in the next few months(only started on it after a post in this forum a few days ago, will take a month or two to compile). The aim is to equip the Pakistani Structural Engineers with knowledge and information on "practical structural design" - that is at par with international standards. A 2-day programme of training courses and lectures was in the planning for October 2020 in Islamabad - but this has had to be postponed for the time being due to Covid-19 social distancing and travel restrictions. This may now probably move to later in the year or even early in 2021 - we shall see. The website: pase.pk (If you have issue connecting then google "Pakistan Association of Structural Engineers pase.pk") - we certainly are not IT professionals. Any feedback via the "contact" tab of the website from structural engineers would be welcome. Kind Regards Simple Structures

AOA everyone, Hope everyone is staying safe during these troubled times. I have been looking into designs of famous structures for a few days and I was wondering if there are any websites or books that have structural designs of famous buildings like the John Hancock building for example. i wanted to recreate these structures maybe in a FEM program to understand them better. Does anyone know where i can find structural plans for these buildings? I'm guessing detailed plans wont be available but even something basic can be really helpful as well. Thanks.

Anyone can guide me through the Code & Standards that are required for Design of Bridges?

Hello, I have question regarding the width of design strips. Please see attached plans. We have columns only at Grid line SM and wall at Grid line SB and Grid line SM. Spacing between Grid line SB and SM is 14.05m. Right now, strip widths are 7.025m. Attached please see plan. I also tried putting one more Grid line between SB and SM making design strip width to 3.5125m. Moment per meter values are higher for this plan as compared to Moment per meter values for 7.025m strip width. Please see below: For 7.025 m width: +M=259 kN-m -M=-526 kN-m V = 345kN For 3.5125 m width: +M=410.53 kN-m -M=-897 kN-m V = 731 kN Difference is huge. Please advise is there any document to read for column strip, I could not find any clause for maximum design strip widths. Thanks, X- direction strips 3.5125 m.pdf X- direction strips_7.025 m.pdf

Dear Fellows I have encountered an issue; draftsmen/architects take projects from clients and make structural drawings without calculations and there are engineers whose stamps are available at printing shops which are stamped for very minimal charges. Structural engineers who are stamping as designer and as vetter are having filthy money without fulfilling their duties. These designers and vetters disregard the profession and engineering community, they do not have any ethics and sense of humanity. PEC do nothing or there is no complain against them. Being engineers and specially as structural engineers this is our responsibility to raise this issue to PEC or any other authorities and more to educate our engineering community that have respect and dignity in the profession, one must not disrespect his profession or let disrespected by such black sheep in the community. If a system/community have the ability to spit the wrong things out it remains alive and working perfectly. when system/community allows everything without check, such community is already dead. Structural engineers do not get projects who are working earnestly due to such people. Main aspect of design safety of humanity is at stack . This is totally against the PEC Code of Ethics. This is against the PEC Code of Conduct. Allah has bestowed us with great knowledge and brain to use for serving humanity and earning rizq e halal. We do use our brains rightly. We should stop this corruption by whatever means we can do.We must spit these non-professionals out of our community. This forum is one of the unique voice of structural engineering community, people comes here to get and share knowledge. I request to all the members that will stand with me on this issue. There is immense need to educate people that structural engineering is a business of life/economy saving, the fees structural engineers charge is nothing in comparison to the cost of lives lost during any incident due to incomplete and false designs or more accurate no designs. Regards