| Type | Examples |
| Plants | Gas holders, tanks, pressure vessels, racks, pipes and pipe bridges,
compensators, varying shells |
| Industry | Steel halls, workshops, stores, high rise stores |
| Exhibitions | Car-selling halls, exhibition and congress centers |
| Special parts | Craneway girders, staircases, lifts, skylights,
pilaster strips |
| Complete buildings | Roof- and wall constructions, green roofing and more... |
| Temporary buildings | Scaffolds, tribunes, platforms, access ways and more... |
| Cables | Braced masts and steel constructions |
| Houses | Walls, ceilings, roofs, balconies, lintels, stairs,
waterproof concrete |
| Timber | Halls, garages, roofs, glued laminated girders |
| Foundations | Foundation strips and blocks, troughs, sole plates |
| Bridges | Footpaths, access roads, bridges ... |
| Pipes | Underground pipes,
pipes of staves for a water power station |
| Various | Columns, bearers, accessible bridges for traffic signs,
frames and windplates for toplights,... |
| Type | Examples |
| Stability | 2d and 3d beam and shell-structures, thin walled structures |
| Carrying capacity | Elastic, plastic, nonlinear geometry |
| Usability | Deformations, crack spacing and widths in concrete |
| Fatigue | For steel (welding, craneways), reinforced concrete |
| Dynamics | Earthquake, vibration |
| Materials | Steel, timber, concrete, aluminium |
| Exceptional loads | Impact, silo loads, liquids, pressures,
settlement due to mining,... |
| Changing status | lift off, deactivated elements (cables, buckling,...) |
| Building physics | Noise, temperature, humidity and fire proofing |
| Codes | DIN, DASt, DAfStb, AD, EC, ATV, BS, ASME, UBC, NBF,.. |
| Type | Examples |
| Basics | Problem definition, planning the main structure |
| Preliminary planning | Comparative calculations, checkable predesign |
| Plan phase | Construction, details, cross sections,
object description |
| Approval phase | Checkable design and constructional drawing |
| Planning the execution | Workshop and detailed drawing, piece list |
| Preparatory for orders | Specification of the works, quantify masses |
| Ordering | Rating the tenders |
| Supervision of the works | Monitoring and writing the log |
| Check the design | Steel and timber constructions can be checked in
commission of the building authority |
| Expertises | Cases of damage, court expertises, arbitrations |
| Type design | Skylights, frames, temporary roofs,
special constructions |
| General allowances | Works for scaffolds and more... |
| Approval for isolated cases | Planning, peforming and evaluating experiments |
