C&EE 147

Design and Construction of Tall Buildings

Civil and Environmental Engineering · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

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Role of structural engineer, architect, and other design professions in design process. Development of architectural design of tall buildings. Influence of building code, zoning, and finance. Advantages and limitations of different structural systems. Development of structural system design and computer model for architectural design.

Letter grading.

When it runs

Winter 2026

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.

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Requisites

Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses 135B, 141, 190. Corequisite: course 132.

BruinTree reads · Corequisite

confidence 1.00 · from UCLA’s structured data

C&EE 132

BruinTree reads · Prerequisite

confidence 1.00 · from UCLA’s structured data

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Requires

Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.

C&EE 147

C&EE 132Dynamics of Rigid and Flexible Structures
- C&EE 91Statics
  - MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculus1 more beneath
  - PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics
  - MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Seriesanother path to it

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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.

No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.