Structural concepts involved in modern high profile facilities, such as long-span sporting venues, bridges and tall buildings, are distinctly different to traditional structures. They are complex in geometry, appearance and loading conditions and quite often use state-of-the-art solutions. Especially modern long-span sporting venues and tall buildings are designed and developed to serve as multipurpose venues. These structures quite often define the future trends in structural engineering practice. Structural engineering skills involved in these types of structures are highly valued by the industry. This course introduces you to different structural forms, innovative concepts, performance indicators and computer modelling techniques involved in developing these structures. The major component of the learning is project based and the concepts are introduced and discussed through a number of case studies.

You will be working within a team. The project is guided and supervised by tutors with structural and architecture knowledge. You will undertake 'well defined responsibilities' to achieve a common objective for the team - simulating real life working environment in structural engineering practices is attempted in this course through project based learning. This course is only recommended for those who have excelled in structural analysis and structural design stream courses in structural engineering specialisation.

Whilst CIVE1163 Long Span & High Rise Structures, lectures and tutorials, is based in the City Campus, model building work will take place in Bundoora East campus. Please consult with your course coordinator for more information.