We understand some about buildings but not all and certainly our knowledge on loading is limited.
The real difference is the Engineer has to engineer for what thye (form of he/she) has, a Scientist does not.
It was the engineer that gave Hampton Court a clean water supply not a Scientist.
John
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> Of Bill Hooper >The science is easy; >the engineering is where it gets difficult ... as always. :-)
This comment made me think of where engineering is easy but science is difficult. For example, people knew how to build bridges long before they understood why they worked.
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