Straight answers to the questions we get asked most about structural design, engineering roles, and how it all fits together.
Structural engineering is what keeps a building standing under its own weight, the people and furniture inside it, and the wind and ground movement acting on it from outside. Skip it, or get it wrong, and the consequences show up as cracking, subsidence, or worse.
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