[TheForge] Stainless

[Gladish Family]

  So many people are taught to ignore empirical evidence that it
> never occurs to them that someone else made a mistake in the
> engineering data they are using.  We learned to "get a piece of that
> stuff" and check it out hands on, before we planned a project in a
> material we had only read about.

Sigh...the architectural world is made of this kind of silliness.
My friend was forced to spend a fortune having his new home designed for
west wind load because he lives at the top of a bluff. Everybody in the
neighborhood knows that the wind hits the bluff and goes up and over...the
harder it blows, the less it affects the house.
First east wind, however, the place really rocked...by then, the architect
and the county permit center had their pay and didn't care.
Ho, hum.
Andy G.