fogbeltchas

Looks to me like the architect didn't want much to do with this project and let the engineer make everything work. I hate to see time and energy expended on these kinds of details by us working class heroes when it would have been right for the architect to do his job: make a pleasing space.

The most important tool in my toolbox is an eraser. Sometimes it needs to be an ink eraser.

Every time I go to a lumberyard to buy composite decking the guys do their level-headed best to talk me out of it. I've used it successfully on several decks but I've seen it look ugly on far too many projects, including a boardwalk in our coastal CA town. After 35 years of building it is clear to me that design is the key element. And always remember the three pigs: Masonry Lasts.

There are way too many of us who still think of throwing things "away". There is no away, there is just here so when you build something that requires rebuilding in less than 50 years (I try for 100 years myself) you shortchange your client and future generations.