David:
True.
I have also heard horror stories like you describe.
My favorite deals with a high rise that was built in San Diego a few years ago.
The firm doing the PEER REVIEW made more (in fees) than the SEOR.
David L. Fisher
Fisher and Partners - Cayman
372 West Ontario
312.573.1701
312.573.1726 facsimile
312.622.0409 mobile
www.fpse.com
From: David Topete [mailto:d.topete73@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 12:47 PM
To:
Subject: Re: Paying for clarification
My experience with 3rd party plan checkers that some municipalities use around here in the SF area has been very tedious to say the least... For the most part, they seem to follow the code letter as written, with very little grey area/wiggle room given to the designer...
As for a peer review, I have not experienced that yet...
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Drew Morris <dmorris@bbfm.com> wrote:
We have/had a similar situation up here in
David Fisher wrote:
Believe it or not, we actually have a pretty good system here now in
We can elect to by-pass the City plan reviewers and obtain a "structural peer review"
From a certified peer reviewer.
We find the comments to be more in line with "real word conditions" and the process
Much more expeditious and worthwhile.
No more comments like:
*/"David, what if your building suddenly grew to a mile long?"/*
No joke.
David L. Fisher
Fisher and Partners - Cayman
372 West Ontario
312.573.1701
312.573.1726 facsimile
312.622.0409 mobile
www.fpse.com
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*From:* Michel Blangy [mailto:mblangy@satco-inc.com]
*Sent:* Wednesday, January 07, 2009 12:04 PM
*To:* seaint@seaint.org
*Subject:* RE: Paying for clarification
> I don't want the plan checker signing off my work because I am a 60-ish year old white haired engineer who he believes has the great knowledge of experience to rely upon.
I am 30-ish and am having insecure feelings that the plan checkers are starting to rely a little to much on me. I am not being arrogant, but I expected corrections on several of my recent submittals and got almost none.
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