Hired as a Surveyor, Work as a Detective Hunting down legal descriptions, field work and piecing together a map to legally represent a property. The help wanted ad doesn’t include detective work in the description. But it certainly could have. Stage 1 Getting Acquainted: Meet the client, meet the property. Besides gathering contact info and…
What if you never had to pay the electric bill? Or the water bill? Or the heat? If your home consumes no more energy than it puts out, the structure can maintain its own energy needs with no outside resources. This is called net-zero energy. In order to do that a building needs to minimize…
The Sydney Opera House is considered a masterpiece of architectural work. The designer is world renown. But it couldn’t have been built without a structural engineer. Architects are usually hired when a project is meant to be creative, beautiful and push the limits of design; something that isn’t normally done and therefore can’t be built…
Engineers. The person who figured out how to apply math to real life and make a living at it. The ones who designed the place you work, the home you live in and the stores you shop at. There are numerous reasons to call an engineer, whether you’re in the business of developing land or…
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