The activities of these specialists include designing and supervising the construction of structural and architectural projects for residential, office buildings, commercial centers, and industrial structures, as well as retrofitting existing buildings. These matters consist of three parts:
Optimum design of structures in regard to materials, energy consumption and life of the structures is one of the key activities practiced by the experts in this department.
The most important projects in this section include:
This section offers services to retrofit the existing buildings based on the earthquake spectrum and the required target for the building to reach the satisfactory level of performance and operation. The expected performance level for structures is defined based on many factors such as age of the building, importance, urban location and economic issues. Moreover, the activity of this section involves geotechnical works, non-destructive testing and test of strength of material.
Projects completed by this section are:
Some examples of civil engineering and architecture
