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By Daniel Hesington
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October 2023 #15291 Page #114
Top Five Most Downloaded Engineering Letters
rior to joining Simpson Strong-Tie, I spent 13 years working as consulting structural engineer. As a specifier, I was amazed at the number of resources Simpson made available to me. From software, to blogs, to design guides, there were many resources to help me solve problems and streamline the design process. One resource that can sometimes be overlooked is the numerous engineering letters Simpson Strong-Tie engineers have authored to assist in the use of our products.
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As a relatively new Simpson Strong-Tie employee, I’ve been doing a deep-dive to learn about all the tools and resources that we’ve created for the professionals who design or build structures with our products. Some of these were already very familiar to me, such as Anchor Designer™, and others I’m finding I wish I knew about in my designing days. Since I was used to specifying products the old-fashioned way (via the hard-copy catalogs), I didn’t visit the website much to search for product details or load tables. If I’d been to the website more, one resource I would have found that Simpson Strong-Tie regularly publishes, and updates, is our engineering letters. Simpson Strong-Tie engineers create two different types of engineering letters: job-specific and generic. Job-specific letters are written to respond to a question from a specifier or customer pertaining to a specific job. The information in these letters is limited to the referenced job. Generic letters are written to address frequently asked questions or common installation issues that have been evaluated by Simpson Strong-Tie. The information in generic engineering letters is not limited to a specific job. Generic engineering letters are published on Strongtie.com, and they can be very helpful to specifiers and customers looking to solve general or recurring problems. The engineering letters posted on our website can be located in several ways. Under Resource Center -> PDF Literature & Catalogs, you can find them by filtering by type on the sidebar. You can home in on a specific subset of engineering letters by choosing one or more of the 17 different categories. Continued next page
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