Codes and standards as a "gold mine

I want to talk now about what the engineer's responsibility is. I didn't bring a copy of the structural welding code, but this is relevant to some other things we're going to go over, and design safety factors. The structural welding code — the steel welding code — is about an inch thick. It comes out about every three or four years. Costs about four hundred, five hundred dollars. There's a problem with codes and standards. Twenty years ago I could have bought that code for seventy-five dollars — basically not much more than the cost of printing.