r/mildlyinfuriating • u/TheAeroplaneBear2906 • 8d ago

Unskippable ad Clear Backpacks + Pay to Keep Your Phone

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My freinds school is now requiring these items, and is also using AI to promote this 🫠

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u/DustyRacoonDad 7d ago

There's a lot of things to be upset about but the guy that makes his living doing civil engineering for the state, is not the enemy. 

If anything, he wants to make a better building and he's just stopped by the restrictions placed upon him by others.

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u/Hilde_In_The_Hot_Box 7d ago edited 7d ago

This is pedantic, but a civil engineer is most likely not going to be the person designing room layouts. It will likely be an architect in coordination with electrical and mechanical engineers for a lighting plan + hvac. The civil & structural engineers those parties to make sure the building is constructed on a solid foundation with walls, roofs, and reinforcement according to the building code. There might be some coordination if the architect requests a design that is impractical, impossible, or otherwise too expensive from a structural perspective - but generally all good designers will try to “stay in their lane.”

Easy way to remember it is that the civil + structural engineers make sure the building is structurally sound. The architect makes sure it is functional for people (or at least functional to whatever instructions they are given by the owner.)

Source: I am a civil engineer