February
Effective Site Supervision & Monitoring for Engineers and Building Supervisors
Online
NIStructE members ₦60,000 · Non-members ₦70,000
Course content
- The need for effective supervision: types of supervision, charging for supervision works, site meetings, expectations from the structural engineer, site inspection and writing of site instructions.
- What the structural engineer should request from the contractor: test results on reinforcement, cube test results on structural elements, concrete mix design results, results of tests on materials and interpretation of test results.
- Supervision of foundation works: what the structural engineer should look out for during construction, basement construction and ground floor, raft slab construction and ground beams.
- Columns, beams, suspended floors (solid, ribbed slab etc.), staircases and retaining walls.
- Importance of cover to the integrity of structural elements; reading, understanding and executing structural drawings on site; anchorages, cantilevers, formwork stability.
- Ethics in structural engineering practice.
March
Design of Prestressed Concrete Structures
Online
NIStructE members ₦60,000 · Non-members ₦70,000
Course content
- History and development of prestressed concrete, materials, methods and systems of tensioning: pre-tensioning and post-tensioning.
- Loss of prestress: elastic shortening of concrete, creep, shrinkage, relaxation in steel, slippage of tendons during anchoring, friction; effective prestress; elongation of tendons.
- Analysis for flexure: basic concepts, stress in steel, cracking moment, ultimate moment; composite sections.
- Design for flexure: preliminary design, elastic design, ultimate design, balanced load design and deflections.
- Shear, bond and bearing: principal tension, web reinforcement, prestress transfer and anchorage.
- Typical beam sections, span-depth ratios, cable layouts, tendon protection and spacing.
- Partial prestressing, combination of prestressed and reinforced concrete.
- Continuous beams: continuous beam C-lines, load-balancing method, ultimate strength of continuous beams.
- Torsional shear stress, cracking torque, design for equilibrium torsion, design for compatibility torsion.
April
Computer-Aided Analysis and Design of Skeletal Structures
Online
NIStructE members ₦60,000 · Non-members ₦70,000
Course content
- Module 1, General introduction: a brief review of the stiffness method of structural analysis and how a stiffness method program works.
- Module 2, Building the structural model: type of structure and analysis (plane/space truss, frame, grid; elastic, sway or plastic); joint coordinates, supports and releases; member topology, releases and properties; geometric and material imperfections; loading and load combinations; ill-conditioning and how to avoid it; taking advantage of symmetry in modelling; presentation and interpretation of results.
- Module 3, Practical design examples: techniques for modelling post-and-truss frames, beam-and-slab bridge decks (following the construction method) and raft foundations.
May
Structural Design of Reinforced Concrete Buildings to Eurocode 2 (Module 1)
Online
NIStructE members ₦60,000 · Non-members ₦70,000
Course content
- Introduction to design and the Eurocodes.
- Design of slabs.
- Design of stairs.
- Design of beams.
- Design of columns.
- Design of foundations.
- Practical design of a 4-storey building.
June
Introduction to Bridge Design
Online
NIStructE members ₦60,000 · Non-members ₦70,000
Course content
- Introduction and conceptual bridge design: general planning and design considerations, choice of bridge site, hydraulic considerations, factors affecting bridge design.
- Bridge superstructure (deck structural forms, behaviour and idealisation): deck general considerations, deck structural forms, load distribution behaviour and idealisation.
- Bridge deck loading and analysis: highway definitions, application of loads, bridge deck analysis.
- Tutorial demonstration.
July
Soil Mechanics and Structural Design of Foundation Elements
Online
NIStructE members ₦60,000 · Non-members ₦70,000
Course content
- Basics of soil mechanics.
- Laws of soil mechanics.
- Shallow foundations.
- Deep foundations.
- Combined pile-raft foundation (CPRF).
- Special foundations.
- Worked examples.
August
Structural Steelwork Design
Online
NIStructE members ₦60,000 · Non-members ₦70,000
Course content
- Introduction to steel design.
- Analysis and design of portal frames for warehouses.
- Analysis and design of space trusses and typical floor systems; specification, fabrication and erection.
- General analytical methods; design and behaviour of connections.
- Computer illustration of modern analytical and design methods.
September
24–25 September 2026
Held
Practical Structural Dynamics for Structural Engineers
Online
NIStructE members ₦60,000 · Non-members ₦70,000
Course content
- Module 1, Fundamentals of single-degree-of-freedom (SDOF) systems: introduction to structural dynamics; the SDOF system, mass, stiffness and damping; derivation of the equation of motion; free vibration analysis; practical calculation workshop.
- Module 2, Response to dynamic loads and practical applications: forced vibration; response to step and pulse loads; earthquake engineering; practical application workshop.
- Module 3, Advanced concepts and multi-degree-of-freedom (MDOF) systems: introduction to MDOF systems, modal analysis, practical demonstration, dynamic design considerations.
Test
Online
NIStructE members ₦3,000 · Non-members ₦6,000
Course content
October
Structural Design of Reinforced Concrete Buildings to Eurocode 2 (Module 2)
Online
NIStructE members ₦60,000 · Non-members ₦70,000
Course content
- Loading and analysis of the structure.
- Slab design: cantilever, simply supported, continuous and two-way slabs.
- Beam design: simply supported, doubly reinforced and continuous beams.
- Column design: axially loaded columns, columns subjected to moments and axial load.
- Foundation design: strip foundations, wide strip foundations, pad foundations.
November
Design of Transmission and Communication Structures
Online
NIStructE members ₦60,000 · Non-members ₦70,000
Course content
- Height limitations; materials: steel, reinforced and prestressed concrete, wood, aluminium; analysis: linear and nonlinear.
- Transmission structures: structure types, design philosophy; loads: legislated loads, additional climatic loads, security loads, construction and maintenance loads, galloping and vibration.
- Steel latticed towers: configuration, tension members, compression members and bolted connections.
- Tubular steel poles and frames: design of polygonal or round cross-sections; prestressed concrete poles and frames; wood poles and frames; testing.
- Communication structures: types, operational requirements, lattice steel towers, guyed masts (configuration, design philosophy, design standards, loads, wind, ice, steel member design, bolted connections, guys: material, initial tension, design, example).
- Foundations: tower foundations, moment-resisting foundations, guy foundations.
- Site inspection checklist for condition survey and integrity assessment.
See the printed 2026 calendar
For registration details, contact Bunmi on 08165542805 or Kola on 08033490492. All payments should be made to the Institution's account at Zenith Bank, Account Number 1010724386.