Steve I am not trying to stir up 'stuff' but I do not understand this.

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If a question ever comes up on ANY issues of code or design, though, it's the engineer who's called in to make the final determination.

Its not the engineer in my experience it will be the inspector / AHJ / Plans examiner who makes the final call on what is code and what is not code.

And I do want to point out I am not anti engineer either. We each have a job to do and like most things the more I learn what an engineer does the more I realize how much I don't know. [Linked Image]

That said I am often more knowledgeable in the code than the engineers and many times have been the one 'blue collar' in a meeting of white collars as a code consultant. [Linked Image] Also more than once this has resulted in complementary calls to my bosses about my ability to work together to find solutions to the problem at hand.

Bob Badger
Construction & Maintenance Electrician
Massachusetts