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The Super-Boring Mind-Dulling Brain-Eating Tour of a Structural Engineers Office

What does an engineers’ office look like? Maybe you’re studying engineering and wondering. Maybe you’re at high school and considering career options.

Take our 360-degree office view for a spin (literally):

University Days

I remember that as a university student in Townsville, our structural engineering class visited the engineering office where a recent graduate from James Cook University worked

He was working as a structural engineer and he arranged for us to visit one of his construction sites. It was amazing. That was one of my first encounters with suspended concrete slabs and I remember aspects of that visit vividly.

Civil Engineers – Consider Structural Engineering

So, if you’re working hard in high school or already studying engineering at university – consider a career in structural engineering. We maybe don’t have the world’s most *amazing* office, but every day we help people in our communities satisfy one of their most basic needs – the need for shelter.

As structural engineers, we do get to use cool analytical tools, we work with really smart designers and planners and on a daily basis, we apply our minds to solving conceptual problems long before they manifest themselves on a construction site. A fantastic mix of office work and site work.

Apply today and let’s have a chat.

Is it hard to be a structural engineer?

Yes. It is very hard to be a structural engineer.

It’s also important that it is very hard to be a structural engineer!

Why?

Because structural engineers have to design whole buildings in their heads and on paper long before a builder or contractor ever sets foot on a site.

Structural engineers start with the figments of the imagination of an architect, identify the problems and solutions, the issues and the advices and then form a real building on paper using conceptual materials and connections and do it so well that the building is easy to build, safe, energy-efficient, environmentally friendly and nice to use and live/work in.

This is all VERY HARD!

Structural engineering isn’t the sort of job you do on a whim. It takes four years of university study to get the right to even enter the engineering office and then at least another four years before you can be registered as a structural engineer.

Becoming a structural engineer is hard work. Very hard work. For the very smartest of engineers.

Think you can do half a job in engineering and get away with it. Not in structural engineering. You have to be motivated, invested and clevcr.

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