Recent content by Hakky

Share your tales of laziness, cluelessness, and other complaints about state engineer boards here!! My complaint is regarding Rhode Island. I'm nearly 3 MONTHS into a licensure application by comity. Application and NCEES Record were sent first week of November 2012. Mid-December I still...

I've spec'd a lot of the Lithonia products on my commercial sites, but they don't offer any residential-type fixtures. I'm looking to spec smaller, more residential type fixtures for this project. The Lithonia stuff isn't going to work for this project, unfortunately, and I haven't found any...

I'm looking for photometric (.ies) files for residential grade outdoor lights (both pole and building mounted). The project I'm working on is a small colonial type redevelopment in a residential neighborhood and the commercial lights are too big and, well, commercial looking. Google hasn't...

Perhaps I've been working for the wrong companies, but in my experience (and in the experience of most people I have met in the civil engineering industry), this is not how it works at all. There is all too often the promise of great rewards in the future, and then excuses later as to why the...

NCEES has turned into a huge pain for me. One of my past employers has not sent in the form, despite multiple calls from me. We have a good relationship and each time he apologizes and says he will send it. But it never gets done. So I had to write a letter to NCEES requesting a waiver from...