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Notes from the design office

Practical articles on steel design, STAAD.Pro automation, OpenSTAAD and C#, and using AI well in structural engineering work.

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PEB

How to calculate the weight of tapered and built-up steel members

Built-up and tapered PEB members have no tabulated kg/m. How to work out their weight from the plates, with a worked example for a tapered rafter and a cover-plated beam.

31 October 2026 4 min readRead

PEB

PEB design basics: what really drives the steel weight

Span, eave height, bay spacing, wind and serviceability: the decisions that set the steel weight of a pre-engineered building, and how to optimise them.

29 September 2026 5 min readRead

PEB

Why every Civil Engineer must learn PEB? And What’s so special about it?

With my experience as a steel design engineer for the past 7 years, I can confidently convey that, the volume of Steel

22 March 2024 3 min readRead