Dynamic Buildings?

[Benggal]

Frankly I think these people should be spending all of that money on one of the many problems facing the world today rather than pissing it away on a fancy new skyscraper...

[papalovebear]

Well you log your hours that you work, you need 700 credit units and 1 hour = 1 credit.
You need to log:
Programming - 10 hours
Site and Environmental Analysis - 10
Schematic Design - 15
Engineering Systems Coordination - 15
Building Cost Analysis - 10
Code Research - 15
Design Develpoment - 40
Construction Documents - 135
Specifications and Meterials Research - 15
Document Checking and Coordination - 10

Bidding and Contract Negotiation - 10
Construction Phase - Office - 15
Construction Phase - Observation - 15

Project Managment - 15
Office Managment - 10

Professional and Community Service - 10

Totaling 700 units

The problem is that you don't just work on that stuff you log waaay more hours into phases so it's not like you can sit for the test after 700 hours.  Like I have 356 hours total but I have 40 hours too many in programming 53 too many in schematic design, 55 too many in design develpoment and I still havent logged about 100 hours in that so yea it's really complicated and weird.  It's not that you log a certian amount of hours then you're good you need them in specific areas that in the real work can't be done sequencially.

[Mel/Slap]

Engineers have it easier put in 4 years of documental experiance under a lincesed PE get your refferances and and your ready to take the test of course you need 5 people to vouch for you and 3 have to be PE's.  So in smaller companies where you only know 1 or 2 PE's life can get hard.

[papalovebear]

yea we have to get a couple people to sign off on every time we submit our hours which we need to do regularly or else they go away and don't count.

But with PE like you're saying you need to send in your hours with people signing off on them as well and then after you've done the time you study or have been studying to take the big test.

I am not sure which is harder I don't think they can be compaired well because ours are very different from yours and I guess that's the nature of engineering and architecture they are like oil and water sometimes but sometimes they blend well.