Plans For The Holidays

In case you’re in need of some instruc­tions on how to com­ply with mod­ern build­ing codes in your Hol­i­day (that’s right, I said Hol­i­day!) prepa­ra­tions:

Holiday Plans - Engineering Document (.pdf link)

No, I did­n’t cre­ate this. The title block lists Win­zler & Kel­ly of Eure­ka, CA as the firm. I have no idea if they’re even real. I can tell by the fact that it ref­er­ences codes from the ’90’s, that it’s not very recent, either. How­ev­er, I thought it might be a nice thing to share with any­one who appre­ci­ates decent engi­neer­ing humor.

Hap­py Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa/New Year/Festivus Holidays!

Did­n’t you hear? Polit­i­cal­ly cor­rect is the new subversive.

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By Jason Coleman

Structural engineer and technical content manager Bentley Systems by day. Geeky father and husband all the rest of time.

3 comments

  1. Yes, Win­zler & Kel­ly is a Real Engi­neer­ing Firm with offices through­out Cal­i­for­nia and the Pacific.

  2. well one would think build­ing codes don’t change much. that being said, this prob­a­bly gets passed around engi­neer­ing cir­cles year after year. sim­i­lar to the san­ta physics that seems to come through my inbox every year.

  3. Scott: One might think such a thing if they were not involved in design or con­struc­tion. How­ev­er, codes con­stant­ly change; some­times quite a lot.

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