Structural engineering is a specialized field of civil engineering and structural engineers are specialized professional who are skilled in creating buildings that have to resist huge amounts of structural loads. Normal buildings like small commercial buildings or homes do not need to resist such huge amounts of structural loads. The small amount of stress that these kinds of buildings need to resist can be easily dealt with by the architects and civil engineers. Structural loads are higher than these normal amounts of stresses. It is the huge amount of force that is exerted by large buildings that causes the building to compromise the structural integrity to the point that it gets deformed or displaced and even collapse. You would have to hire the services of a structural engineering consultancy for constructing large buildings.

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With the huge numbers of gigantic buildings being made all over the world, the demand for structural engineers is increasing everyday. Structural engineers are civil engineers as well but more specialized in designing as well as constructing large buildings. The reason for the need of such specialization in civil engineering is due to the fact that every kind of buildings exerts an amount of force on the building known as structural load. While the small and medium sized buildings like homes or medium sized shopping malls or office buildings exert a certain amount of pressure or load too, but it is nothing compared to the gigantic buildings. The little amount of stress felt by such small and medium sized buildings can be dealt with by general architects and civil engineers.

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