Mar 10, 2026  
College Catalog 2024-2025 
    
College Catalog 2024-2025 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

CONST 123 - Understanding Structural Design


2 Total Credits
Learn how to recognize, interpret and understand the structural concerns of a building project. This includes review of structural design criteria for simple concrete, steel, and wood construction. Engineering concepts are reviewed including dead and live loads; trusses; and learning about forces, stress, shear, and moments in simple systems. Students learn to trace loads through a simple structure. 

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