C&EE 147 · CEE 147Design and Construction of Tall Buildings
Civil and Environmental Engineering · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
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.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses 135B, 141, 190. Corequisite: course 132.
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
- PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields
- C&EE 135BIntermediate Structural Analysis
- C&EE 135AElementary Structural Analysis
- COM SCI 31Introduction to Computer Science I
- C&EE 141Steel Structures
- C&EE 190Professional Practice
- C&EE 121Design of Foundations and Earth Structures
- C&EE 142Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures
- C&EE 151Introduction to Water Resources Engineering
- C&EE 150Introduction to Hydrology
- C&EE 155Unit Operations and Processes for Water and Wastewater Treatment
- C&EE 153Introduction to Environmental Engineering Science
4 direct requisites. Showing 28 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
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.