We teach structural design to the people who build it, so they can understand it, check it and question it.
A beam is ordered two sizes bigger than it needed to be. A foundation is dug a metre deeper because nobody asked which tree set the depth. A redesign costs a fortnight because the first brief missed the obvious. None of it happens through carelessness. It happens because structural design has been kept in its own language.
Loadpath Group is an independent training company. We teach builders, architects and property professionals how steel, concrete, masonry and timber are designed, from the engineer’s side of the desk, so they can read a design, check it and ask the questions that make it cheaper and simpler to build.
You won’t leave able to sign off a structure. You’ll leave able to understand it, check it, and talk to your engineer as an equal.
Loads first, then the checks that set the size, the same way an engineer works.
Plain language and worked domestic examples. Only the maths you need to follow a calculation.
Trainers who design and check real structures every week.
Questions you can put to your engineer on the job already on your desk.
Our Structural Engineering Instructors
Our Structural Engineering Instructors are led by a chartered civil and structural engineer (CEng MICE) with almost 30 years of design, checking and technical leadership on projects across the UK and the Middle East.
That experience runs from national infrastructure to the house next door: from temporary works beside live railway lines to the structural calculations for thousands of new homes. Every course draws on it, so what you learn has been tested on real jobs, with real budgets and real consequences.
Technical lead on HS2 enabling works in central London, including temporary works and sheet piling beside the main lines into Euston. Design of grout shafts protecting Crossrail tunnels, external works at Heathrow Terminal 5, and permanent and temporary works for a carbon capture pipeline through 40m-deep shafts.
Senior structural designer on a £71m flood alleviation scheme in Preston, with shafts up to 25m in diameter and 30m deep. Project manager and designer on a £16m flood scheme in Gloucester, including a 20m-diameter pumping station and a kilometre of tunnel.
Seismic design on an 80-storey residential tower in Abu Dhabi, and the foundations and four-storey basement of a £330m shopping centre in Dubai. A 14-storey hotel, new schools, factory extensions and steel portal frames across the UK.
Lead engineer on housing developments of 200 to 1,500 homes, producing the structural calculations for standard house types for NHBC approval. Today, domestic extensions, knock-throughs and alterations every week: the same jobs our courses are built around.
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