Designing steel-framed structures is an art form that is not just about sizing a structure effectively to be able to resist the loads but also knowing where to spend your time. It’s important to know how much time you should be spending on the analysis, connections and detailing. 

This video provides you with years of experience that can help improve your steel design and is broken down into two parts:

  1. Structural analysis and using rules of thumb to be able to size your structure and check designs against analysis software to ensure accuracy. 
  2. The important aspects for designing connections in steel frame structures.