I know that others here have run into this scenario before so I have to ask how did you handle it?
Called to a job to perform a structural inspection and discover several bolted shear frames that are called out to be pretensioned, but the hex bolts are already in and I wasn't there to watch the installation, there are no match marks on the bolts or steel, only tick marks beside each bolt indicating that someone has tightened each bolt.
How does a person satisfy everyone that these bolts were properly tensioned after the fact? Should I insist that these bolts come back out, and be re-installed?