ECONOMICS OF STEELWORK DESIGN.

This paper sets out in qualitative terms guidance for engineers in achieving the economic use of structural steelwork. It identifies the major cost items in the total construction process and emphasizes the importance of their relative values. The cost items of the steelwork itself are given and discussion in detail and the paper indicates how money can be saved or wasted depending on the approach adopted by the designer. It indicates how a knowledge of the various steps involved in the steelwork contractor's function can be of value in deriving the most economic structural solution.