{"id":501,"date":"2026-10-04T13:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T13:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eve-construction.com\/?page_id=501"},"modified":"2026-10-04T13:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T13:58:09","slug":"structural-design","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/eve-construction.com\/%e0%a4%a8%e0%a5%87%e0%a4%aa%e0%a4%be%e0%a4%b2%e0%a5%80\/learn\/structural-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Structural Designer Track"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Structural design is the most demanded engineering skill in Nepal&#8217;s job market. This track takes you from theory to your first ETABS model, using only free resources.<\/p>\n<h2>Step 1: Master the theory<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nptel.ac.in\/course.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NPTEL: Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures<\/a> (IIT Kharagpur, 12 weeks, free)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nptel.ac.in\/course.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NPTEL: Design of Steel Structures<\/a> (limit state method, free)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ocw.mit.edu\/courses\/civil-and-environmental-engineering\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MIT OpenCourseWare: Civil and Environmental Engineering<\/a> (free)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Step 2: Learn the software<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLOAuB8dR35oeX5hzUy_eoJfWIj73Z2IeC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CSI official ETABS tutorial playlist<\/a> (YouTube, free)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLOAuB8dR35odqalPS7VsJ3DW-8OP2hM7f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CSI official SAP2000 tutorial playlist<\/a> (YouTube, free)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GVopE2CA31c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn SAP2000 in an Hour<\/a> (beginner friendly, free)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Step 3: Practice with free licenses<\/h2>\n<p>CSI offers free student versions of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csiamerica.com\/products\/etabs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ETABS<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csiamerica.com\/products\/sap2000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SAP2000<\/a>. Install one and rebuild the examples from the tutorials above.<\/p>\n<h2>Nepal context<\/h2>\n<p>Pair your software skills with <a href=\"https:\/\/eve-construction.com\/%e0%a4%a8%e0%a5%87%e0%a4%aa%e0%a4%be%e0%a4%b2%e0%a5%80\/building-code\/\">Nepal Building Code knowledge<\/a>, especially NBC 105:2020 for seismic design. Most structural jobs in Nepal expect both.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eve-construction.com\/%e0%a4%a8%e0%a5%87%e0%a4%aa%e0%a4%be%e0%a4%b2%e0%a5%80\/jobs\/\">Browse structural engineering jobs<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Structural design is the most demanded engineering skill in Nepal&#8217;s job market. This track takes you from theory to your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":499,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-501","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_hostinger_reach_plugin_has_subscription_block":false,"_hostinger_reach_plugin_is_elementor":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eve-construction.com\/%e0%a4%a8%e0%a5%87%e0%a4%aa%e0%a4%be%e0%a4%b2%e0%a5%80\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eve-construction.com\/%e0%a4%a8%e0%a5%87%e0%a4%aa%e0%a4%be%e0%a4%b2%e0%a5%80\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eve-construction.com\/%e0%a4%a8%e0%a5%87%e0%a4%aa%e0%a4%be%e0%a4%b2%e0%a5%80\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eve-construction.com\/%e0%a4%a8%e0%a5%87%e0%a4%aa%e0%a4%be%e0%a4%b2%e0%a5%80\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eve-construction.com\/%e0%a4%a8%e0%a5%87%e0%a4%aa%e0%a4%be%e0%a4%b2%e0%a5%80\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eve-construction.com\/%e0%a4%a8%e0%a5%87%e0%a4%aa%e0%a4%be%e0%a4%b2%e0%a5%80\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502,"href":"https:\/\/eve-construction.com\/%e0%a4%a8%e0%a5%87%e0%a4%aa%e0%a4%be%e0%a4%b2%e0%a5%80\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/501\/revisions\/502"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eve-construction.com\/%e0%a4%a8%e0%a5%87%e0%a4%aa%e0%a4%be%e0%a4%b2%e0%a5%80\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eve-construction.com\/%e0%a4%a8%e0%a5%87%e0%a4%aa%e0%a4%be%e0%a4%b2%e0%a5%80\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}