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Hi All, Structural Design is all about either knowing the subject, or knowing where to find the information needed to complete design! My Question to you all: In Pakistan what are the "essential design guides and information" you have handy on your desk and use all the time during your day to day structural design activities? Codes? Drawing Software; Analysis Software; Steel beam tables; Reinforcement data; Khanna's Civil Engineering handbook (for desi tips)? etc. Reason for question: It would be good to share and collate this information, with a view to developing CPD activities for Structural Engineers in Pakistan. Here is some of my list: Codes: Eurocodes; Units: Metric (as used by 95% of the world); AutoCAD & Revit (Drawing); ANSYS, MasterSeries and Robot (analysis software);Reinforcement Detailing Manual; Pakistan Manufacturers data on structural Steelwork and reinforcement; Structural Steelwork Designers Handbook; Reinforced Concrete Designers Handbook; Khanna's Civil Engineering Handbook (for design tips and a smile), and much more….. Please do share .... knowledge shared, is the glass half full approach for the betterment of our Structural Engineering Profession ...?

I use Bricscad in lieu of Autocad. I don't have the current edition. I'm not a CAD operator and only produce *.dwg files occasionally. You can still get perpetual licenses for Bricscad and it is a fraction of the cost of AutoCAD. When I purchased my copy, it was less costly than AutoCAD LT and worked as well as the full AutoCAD. It is about 99.9% compatible. I've opened 80meg 3D drawings that were originally done in AutoCAD, and edited them and there was no trouble for a CAD operator to open the edited files. I'm also a member of the AISC and Steel Tube Institute. Both these organisations have excellent reference material.

FEMA P-2012/2018 Assessing Seismic Performance of Buildings with Configuration Irregularities is now available. Thanks. FEMA_P-2012_508.pdf Source: https://www.fema.gov/media-library-data/1551300980344-8e2d825576db50c85ea48448ede5bd90/FEMA_P-2012_508.pdf