Roadblock removal?

This week we had our meeting with the town building department and they are super excited about the project. The great thing about our town is its forward "pro green" thinking. It does make a difference when you are working with everyone and not against them.

During the meeting we talked about many details but the one big thing we needed was the towns perspective on our engineering dilemma. Once again, our project is in kind of a grey area of the building code. The town doesn't require engineering for residential projects but our house does need engineering done. The generic engineering for the 32' dome doesn't account for the rebar placement in the areas around openings and where the domes connect. The building department needed to decide if the house requires official engineering done (CT licensed engineer) or if it still falls under residential rules (no engineering). After much debate, asking various people and referencing the building code, it was determined we do have to have a CT licensed engineer and we can't use engineering from someone who is familiar with the domes.

We are still firmly at our road block and waiting for our revised engineering quotes.

One suggestion from a few CT engineers was to have the whole thing done by the non CT licensed engineer and have the CT one verify the work and oversee the construction. I am waiting to hear back from Monolithic about this possibility. Maybe this will be our way around the roadblock. We have found two CT engineers willing to do this but we don't know if the engineer Monolithic typically works with is open to the situation.

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