CONTENTS Acknowledgements xiv Preface to the third editionxv Preface to the second edition xvii Preface to the first editionxviii 1.Introduction to structural design : the meaning, the purpose and the limits of structural design - general 1 2. Steel structures - structural engineering 9 3. Structural steel design 32 4. Preliminary design 55 5. Single-storey, one-way-spanning buildings 76 6. Single-storey, one-way-spanning pinned-base portal-plastic design to EC3 115 7. Multistorey buildings 129 8. Multistorey buildings, simple design to EC3 174 9. Floor systems 192 10. Design of simply supported composite beam to EC4 222 11. Tall buildings 231 12. Wide-span buildings 263 13. Sustainable steel buildings and energy saving 306 Bibliography 319 Index 325