Attachment # 2 – Email from Mark Buesink to John Becker dated December 6, 2022

Attachment # 2

From: John Becker To: Anna Becker Subject: FWD: Re: 12 Vickery Road (Your Project # 10441) Date: November 14, 2024 10:47:35 AM Attachments: image.png

From: "Mark Buesink" [redacted] Sent: 12/6/22 5:03 PM To: John Becker [redacted] Subject: Re: 12 Vickery Road (Your Project # 10441)

John, so I've looked into this and asked Trevor about it. Below is a summary of our call and current results.

• Trevor needs to take the time on site that is necessary to gather the information. Without noting changes, a framing review typically takes 1.5 to 2 hours. For everything that changes, more time is needed and depending on the detail of the changes, more information might be needed. We then have to reflect ALL of these changes on our drawings. This is a legal requirement of the engineering act. So yes, Trevor did need to spend that time on site.
• Trevor is a courteous individual and is not one to boast about his prowess or be condescending.
• You are correct. Trevor [redacted] up and thought he had the information in the first place about the LVL beams but then the second time on site, he took more information. Needing more information isn't uncommon when things differ from our drawings. It's not an easy task and takes time.
• There are a hundred ways to skin a cat. Our initial design is not the only possible way to build something. However, when you build something different, it needs to be checked. Each change has to be re-designed. Then we try to figure out the best way for you to remediate the construction that has been done. If it isn't easy, we try to find alternatives. Trevor did provide options for reframing the partially continuous beams you built. The first was continuous LVL across ALL joints and posts to remediate the splices and continuity you had added. The detail provided is generic and meant to apply at all of these locations where the LVL beam spans over a post.
• quarter pointing (discontinuous beams with butt joints) is a way of building up lumber built up beams that are consistent with the prescriptions of part 9 of the building code and span tables. LVL, the spans in question, and the way you have built up those beams are NOT consistent with part 9 and cannot be quarterpointed without explicit design. We have provided options to work with your site conditions and supplier limitations.
• See below for the clarity on where those LVL beams need to be installed. They still need to be fastened per the sketch. These locations are not exactly the same as you understood which isn't any of our instructions or Trevor's. Trevor's instructions were for ALL locations. However, he did [redacted] up on site in the first place when he didn't realize you had more splices than he originally understood. He obviously misunderstood or didn't realize how many splices were actually there.
• The below MUST be done. This works with the material you now have and the instructions Trevor gave you.