Types of structures; Loads, load factors and load transfer; Properties of structural steel, Behaviour and design of steel compression members and statically-determinate steel beams; Properties of concrete and reinforcing steel; Behaviour of uncracked and cracked reinforced concrete beams; Design of statically-determinate one-way slabs and rectangular, T and L beams for ultimate and serviceability limit states; Design of reinforced concrete short columns. Behaviour and design of timber members subjected to bending, axial compression and combined bending and compression.