I know that going out to the field more will help with understanding how things are built but are there any supplemental materials, sources, or strategies that can help architects get better with structural design and detailing?
Wood Guy
Mar 20, 23 1:22 pm
Take classes in structural engineering, spend time working as a carpenter. At least that worked for me.
Non Sequitur
Mar 20, 23 1:50 pm
Review, read, understand, your structural consultant's drawings.
JonathanLivingston
Mar 20, 23 6:26 pm
This means going further and looking up the smaller items. For your typical wood or light construction; look up what the hangers, buckets, and hoedowns the engineer is specifying and get an image. I glazed over a lot of these and just looked at the beam, joist, header, and column size when I was younger. Took me a long time to understand what some of these Simpson and similar products are but they are important to understand to truly see how thing goes together. I think this is one of the main things you get to see and understand implicitly on-site that's hard to pick up from the drawings without doing the extra work of looking up the items. sometimes those hangers straps and buckets are called typically in general notes and are hard to suss out.
Non Sequitur
Mar 20, 23 7:00 pm
My engineers don’t throw hoedowns. Maybe I should look for other consultants.
JonathanLivingston
Mar 20, 23 9:05 pm
Ha autocorrect for the win. Mine always throws them in the most inconvenient places.
Chad Miller
Mar 20, 23 2:06 pm
Speak to your structural engineer and involve them early in your designs.
I know that going out to the field more will help with understanding how things are built but are there any supplemental materials, sources, or strategies that can help architects get better with structural design and detailing?
Take classes in structural engineering, spend time working as a carpenter. At least that worked for me.
Review, read, understand, your structural consultant's drawings.
This means going further and looking up the smaller items. For your typical wood or light construction; look up what the hangers, buckets, and hoedowns the engineer is specifying and get an image. I glazed over a lot of these and just looked at the beam, joist, header, and column size when I was younger. Took me a long time to understand what some of these Simpson and similar products are but they are important to understand to truly see how thing goes together. I think this is one of the main things you get to see and understand implicitly on-site that's hard to pick up from the drawings without doing the extra work of looking up the items. sometimes those hangers straps and buckets are called typically in general notes and are hard to suss out.
My engineers don’t throw hoedowns. Maybe I should look for other consultants.
Ha autocorrect for the win. Mine always throws them in the most inconvenient places.
Speak to your structural engineer and involve them early in your designs.
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