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Good luck and also it is great to have initiatives like you did. You can also work part-time with someone to get design experience and then start expanding your services. There are a lot of engineers on this forum that you can contact and engage for peer review. A lot of firms do that.

Location of Base for Seismic Design.pdf Read the attached document. You initial design should not alter too much by incorporating the concern of third party in your model.

I agree with this statement with a slight modification: "until unless you work with some competent engineers and challenge yourself with technical problems on bigger projects" which challenge your pre-existing pool of knowledge. But that statement covers the development of competency of individual. In order to land a job which pays well, this is not enough at all. The MS degree has a huge advantage. A MS degree from a university of good standing in US, UK, Canada, AUS, New Zealand makes it easier for you to acquire a job at a company of international repute, and you are paid much better than the others as well. In Gulf, one will routinely come across adds which requires that the applicant must be registered as professional structural engineer (like CEng, MIStructE) in an internationally recognized regulatory authority (mostly UK). These are the people which pay almost twice to the people that satisfy their requirement. The requirement is simple, they pay to the privileged ones. This criteria of hiring anyone who is registered with a particular organization ( mostly Institute of Structural Engineers, UK) gives undue advantage; but, it is convenient for recruiters. In most cases, the one who is registered with Institute of Structural Engineers, would have got his Masters from there as well. Any one who has got the job (especially in Structural engineering) in western firms based in Gulf without the MS from above mentioned countries, count your self extremely lucky.

Hi Arsalan, with all due respect, if you feel confident in what you are doing than no point of doing masters as this will just be a degree for you and waste of time/money, until unless you work with some competent engineers and challenge yourself with technical problems on bigger projects. There is nothing wrong in doing design work on your own, which you are doing but if you have never been to a design office or never sit with a senior engineer, I doubt your knowledge about the design codes and the application of different design clauses. I personal feel you should not be giving any structural advise (sorry but that is what i think). 2storeyplus buildings or small plazas may look simple but are very critical as they are the major building stock in pakistan, without prior design knowledge there are so many basic details which you learn only with a senior engineer or in a design office. I am pretty sure you are just copying the drawings for other consultant and engineers which is basically what contractor or builders do. There is no difference between what you are doing and what they are doing. You should keep your firm name as builders only as design part is doubtful. Apologies if something i said offends you but structural engineering is a profession which we as engineers pick and we do it passionately, there is no way of shortcuts.

Salam, No university is best without your own interest, basically engineering is a mindset i.e LIFE LONG LEARNER, engineers from different Pakistani universities are doing wonderful jobs throughout world, here in this group most members are structural engineers and working worldwide. NUST, NED, UET Taxila, UET Lhr are all good universities.

Without working under supervision of professional engineer, you shouldn’t be working independently unless you have gained sufficient experience. This requirement is there globally in literally every country. What if you make a mistake/ error that results in a death? Have you thought about that?

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Sit and think about you are doing and saying Arsalan ......... "the designs are just for Municipality purposes". If you need help, you have this forum, the net, your teachers.... Here is a post for you.

Dear Fellows I have encountered an issue; draftsmen/architects take projects from clients and make structural drawings without calculations and there are engineers whose stamps are available at printing shops which are stamped for very minimal charges. Structural engineers who are stamping as designer and as vetter are having filthy money without fulfilling their duties. These designers and vetters disregard the profession and engineering community, they do not have any ethics and sense of humanity. PEC do nothing or there is no complain against them. Being engineers and specially as structural engineers this is our responsibility to raise this issue to PEC or any other authorities and more to educate our engineering community that have respect and dignity in the profession, one must not disrespect his profession or let disrespected by such black sheep in the community. If a system/community have the ability to spit the wrong things out it remains alive and working perfectly. when system/community allows everything without check, such community is already dead. Structural engineers do not get projects who are working earnestly due to such people. Main aspect of design safety of humanity is at stack . This is totally against the PEC Code of Ethics. This is against the PEC Code of Conduct. Allah has bestowed us with great knowledge and brain to use for serving humanity and earning rizq e halal. We do use our brains rightly. We should stop this corruption by whatever means we can do.We must spit these non-professionals out of our community. This forum is one of the unique voice of structural engineering community, people comes here to get and share knowledge. I request to all the members that will stand with me on this issue. There is immense need to educate people that structural engineering is a business of life/economy saving, the fees structural engineers charge is nothing in comparison to the cost of lives lost during any incident due to incomplete and false designs or more accurate no designs. Regards

Dear All, While browsing the internet, I came across the following confined masonry guidelines available free to public. They are very informative and would add value to you design practise. Source: http://www.confinedmasonry.org Enjoy. Confined Masonry Earthquake Resistant Guideline .pdf Construction-Guide-for-Low-Rise-Confined-Masonry-Buildings.pdf Pakistan_CM-manualv3.0.3TomSchacher.pdf Pakistan_confined-masonry-english.pdf Pakistan_ERRA_Guideline_CM.pdf