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Engineers vs Architects (lemmy.world)
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by Centurii-chan

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[–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

Yeah I guess I was thinking about cost when I said effort. I figured maybe building up would also provide more design challenges to keep the thing from collapsing, or is that negligible?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    You'll have a little bit more wind loading and you may have to put in a little bit of thought into the size and bracing of the vertical support columns to make sure the extra length doesn't risk buckling, but that's pretty much it.

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