Pre-requisite: 70670
This final year design Unit represents the end point of many other Units including particularly, Engineering Statics, Stress Analysis, Structural Design 1, Concrete Structures and Structural Analysis 1. There is little new theory developed in this Unit but rather it makes use of the knowledge and skills that you have developed in those earlier Units and applies them to the design of some standard structural systems and building types. The work covered in this Unit is very similar to that which you could expect to be doing in your early years as a graduate engineer. To prepare you for such work the Unit makes extensive use of computer packages to assist with estimating loads, analysing structures and estimating their capacity to carry the design loads. The Unit material is presented in parallel to two major design projects one for a reinforced concrete framed office block and the other for a steel framed industrial shed. In both cases you will start by considering a set of client requirement and work through to a complete building design. You will find that the challenge in this Unit is in developing an appreciation of the overall design process rather than focussing on specific aspects as is the case with most earlier Units. While this is a structural engineering design Unit you should find that the overall design process as developed is largely applicable to any other civil design process.