By the end of this course, you should be able to:
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Recognise the performance of tall buildings
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Design effective lateral stability systems for tall buildings
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Demonstrate how to design a tall building under blast or impact loading
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Describe how to design tall buildings for fire safety
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Use different software to analyse tall buildings
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Apply the pertinent design codes
Structural engineers or students who work in the tall building design sectors.
Practising structural engineers or postgraduate students.
Recommended reading
Feng, F (2018). Structural Dynamic. Design and Analysis of Tall and Complex Structures. Oxford: Elsevier
Tutor
Feng Fu is a Chartered Structural Engineer and the Vice Chair of the Institution’s North Thames Regional Group. He was involved in the structural fire design and analysis for the Shard. His paper Grenfell Tower Disaster: how did the fire spread so quickly?, published in The Conversation, has attracted 200,000 reads worldwide.