Structural Engineering Trends.

Structural Engineering Trends

Rarely do things remain the same. Life ebbs and flows. You watch the world evolving and changing day to day, month to month and year to year. Think about your neighborhood businesses or your town center. Has everything stayed the seem? Have you watched new corporate businesses take over the small ‘ma and pa’ shops? Have you seen beautiful old building be demolished and replaced with large modern corporate buildings?

As structural engineers, contractors and land developers we play a significant role in both residential and commercial areas. Our evolving field of work calls for us to stay connected to the current structural trends. Our goal is to stay abreast, meet the challenges and demands with solution based strategies. Here are some of the trends we’ve seen lately:

Go Green or Go Home

Our environment has taken the brunt of modern technology’s constant evolution and advancement. The first things that come to mind are, steel and concrete us as well as the the emissions of greenhouse gases due to structural materials. Luckily, our we have become more proactive about using sustainable engineering techniques to be apart of reducing energy consumption.

Off Site Building

Prefabricated Modules has been an extremely efficient and innovative way of design and construction. Modular building saves times, is accomplished in a controlled environment, lowers labor cost which in turn may cost everyone less money overall and most importantly limits the amount of waste on projects.

Building Safety

The Sterling Watson Collective is based in California which means we know a lot about the significance of structurally sound buildings when it comes to earthquakes. “The early 2000s seismic design approach is to design the structure for adequate strength and ductility for the design seismic forces and then to check that the resulting interstory displacements are satisfactory.” Earthquake resistance structures are in part possible due to the a system design that is able to detect seismic activity.

Waste Conscious

Being conscious is all about paying closer attention to practices. At Sterling-Watson Collective we are committed to adopting the practices of less to zero waste. We encourage each of our affiliates to make better choices in materials, disposal, re-use and day to day methods on site. We realize that these practices not only impact the future our the structural engineering industry, but also the future of sustainability.

We look forward to learning and sharing more about what the future holds for Structural Engineering.