05-20-2015, 10:24 PM
(05-20-2015, 09:52 PM)Smore Wrote: I believe the "fill the basement" approach was proposed by the geotechnical (not structural engineer) that was a delegate to council that hadn't been in the building, but was "involved in writing standards".
And those were not building standards, either.
Electrical engineers, chemical engineers and mechanical engineers are engineers, too, but it doesn't make them qualified to design or judge the stability of buildings.