Building structures

What this course covers

Every building is a path for force to travel to the ground. Once you can see that path, framing plans stop being abstract and start telling you a story. This course covers load paths, structural systems in steel, concrete, and masonry, and the connections where structures actually fail.

8 modules · 1h 52m

1Load paths: how force gets to the groundFree previewRoof to beam to column to footing to soil. Follow it once and you will always see it.14m
2Dead, live, wind, and seismic loadsThe four things a structure is designed against, and which one governs where you work.20m
3Steel frame systemsBeams, columns, moment frames, and braced frames. Reading a steel framing plan.13m
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Who takes this

Tradespeople who can already do the work and want to run it
Field leads stepping into a foreman or superintendent seat
People coming into construction from another industry, or starting over
Students and families looking at a career that does not need a four-year degree
Crews being trained by their employer on a team plan

Aaron Gaddy holding a rolled set of drawings under his arm on a jobsite in late afternoon light.

Taught by Aaron Gaddy

30+ years in commercial construction. Every module here comes out of jobs he actually ran — the drawings, the mistakes, and what they cost.

What this course covers

8 modules · 1h 52m

Who takes this

Before you start

Building structures is on its way.

Building structures

What this course covers

8 modules · 1h 52m

Who takes this

Before you start

How long will this take me?

Do I need to take other courses first?

What do I get at the end?

Do I keep this course?

Building structures is on its way.