1/07/10

I ended up working at the office today. not much major work. i had to draw the outline drawing of the sai grandeur apartments. and check it out with the submitted drawings. the submitted drawings were done by another firm. so the outline drawing was needed to be done in order to check for violoations. when there are violations, the owner ends up paying penalties.. i think its like 25% of the total area..when it exceeds that, the owner ends up paying a fine. the buildings i drew violated for sure, but not as much as 25 % so i suppose they were safe. thats about it..besides checking for positions of the columns. yesterday while checking for beam reinforcemens, i found out that the stirrups were not at constant lengths..its not really a problem.. but theres a reason why the structural designers design it that way.