RE: underground house

Bill,

I should have known that if I said that we would get our first rain and that's what I woke up to this morning.

I am going to get my steelhead rod and go down to the banks of the Los Angeles River for some action after work.

Richard

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Allen [mailto:t.w.allen@cox.net]
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 2:56 PM
To: seaint@seaint.org
Subject: RE: underground house

Puleese, Richard.

 

Waterproofing isn’t a structural engineer’s responsibility unless there is no architect on the job.

 

You need to stop volunteering us for more responsibility than we already have.

 

T. William (Bill) Allen, S.E.

ALLEN DESIGNS

Consulting Structural Engineers
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-----Original Message-----
From: Richard L. Hess [mailto:RLHess@HessEng.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 1:48 PM
To: seaint@seaint.org
Subject: RE: underground house

 

Ralph,

Have you seen the Stata Center?  And, do you know of anything Gehry has done recently that was not screwed up?  And if a structural engineer doesn't know how to detail a building so it will be waterproof he/she should stick to southern California where it hasn't rained for over two years.

Richard Hess (living in So. Cal. but educated elsewhere)