Structural Engineer

Structural Engineer

A job of a structural engineer is to use engineering principles to construct a safe structure which can with hold its dead loads and can withstand any additional live loads that may be applied to it.

The role of the civil engineer is of a vital importance in the construction of the ski resort, the structural engineer would be required to produce a design which can with hold various loads imposed on the structure due to materials used in the construction, people occupancy and various natural factors such as wind. Structural engineer would be actively involved in the design stage collaborating closely with architect. This is quite necessary as the structural engineer provides knowledge on materials that can be used to construct ski resort. In this particular project during the design stage it was decided that geodesic dome was going to be used to make the ski resort in order to give it a unique look. Creating a dome over a larger area can require a lot of materials to be used on the building process; this would have led to a very heavy structure. A structural engineer’s knowledge of alternate materials provided the idea of using shotcrete, air forms and truss structure in the construction of the dome. Using of these materials considerably reduced the weight of the structure. Structural engineer than applied their structural analysis concepts to work out the load paths and the dead loads. These loads are permanent and will always be imposed on the structure. Structural engineer would also calculate any live loads that will be imposed due to the placing of ski slope, ice rinks, restaurants etc. The load for the whole structure was to be built to withstand all the loads and with a further load safety factor of 2.00.

Once the design stage and the calculation are complete, the structural engineer will be able to devise a work schedule. This is important in order to have the building