Page 5 - Building Regulation and Design Guidelines - Structural (Grey Code)

INTRODUCTION

he main principles of the structural buildings design guidelines were released first time
Tin 2006, as set out in Chapter 25 amongst the CED-Blue Code. These guidelines were
aiming to provide the structural engineers with the general and minimum requirements
for very limited structures; and the weak point was being not extended to cover all types
of structural developments in terms of geometry and construction materials. Trakhees-
CED, in its ongoing and incessant communication with engineering community, have
received an adequate encouragements to go further in producing separate volume for
structural design guidelines that can tackle all the common structural industry. Through
the past year, a comprehensive and oriented effort have been offered to establish a set of
guidelines that providing bases of analysis and design as well as the required documents
for submissions to meet the needs of approvals for residential, commercial and industrial
buildings, whether being made of concrete, steel or pre stressed materials through a set
of unified consistenceand compatible rules. The information contained in this volume has
been also compiled for use, guidance since proposing the structure scheme, interpretation
of geotechnical data, computer modeling, loading, analysis and design. It is also providing
the designers with the basic requirements for review and checking of the design documents
with CED team from the submission time until the approval that will facilitate and ease the
ermits issuance. It is anticipated that the use of these guidelines will result in a uniform
design and constructionof buildings throughout all types of structures.

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