If you don't wish simply to follow the prescribed hut design, the guidance is that a structural "engineer must provide you with a fully specified structural design for your hut and certificate for the design of both foundations and superstructure calculated in relation to the actual site conditions concerned".
Has anyone any experience of discussing hut designs/ structures with structural engineers and, if so, could they please share with us how they got on - particularly re the availability/ appropriate knowledge of such individuals, and what the cost estimate for their involvement would be. I rather suspect the cost would be prohibitive for most folk looking to erect a single modest hut to their own design?
Thanks,
- RoryD
I once had a £700+ bill from a structural engineer to design a flitch beam, which turned out to be a standard RSJ...but given Lee's experience it would be worth asking for a price if you had something unusual to build and wanted to be sure about it