In a previous post Don wrote...
Its all a matter of wording.
Just cause YOU call it *reviewing* doesn't make it so.
I know plenty of architects and engineers that have boilerplate sheets made
up with stuff like standard details of headers, footing steel, sill
sections, etc. that simply date and stamp them and sell them to the
homeowner or others for a few hundred bux. The homeowner or builder includes
them with the rest of the permit package and everyone's happy. When the code
changed in 1992 requiring architects and/or engineers to stamp ALL plans
submitted for permit this created a finacial boon for all of them.
Architects and engineers design less than 5% of all the homes in SW FL but
they make money off of ALL of them, by law.


Now I think that is wrong! If a set of house plans meets the prescriptive
requirements of IRC then no design professional should have to seal the
drawings. That's they way it is here in Kitsap County and in most
jurisdictions in Washington State.

Of course in seismic zone D2, it's not very easy to design a house to meet
the prescriptive requirements unless you happen to like houses with small
rooms and not very many windows.

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Bob Morrison, PE, SE
R L Morrison Engineering Co
Structural & Civil Engineering
Poulsbo WA
bob at rlmorrisonengr dot com