Introduction -- Example A - Single-storey shed -- Overview -- Structure / Envelope -- Details, scale 1:20 -- Example B - Extension -- Overview -- Structure / Envelope -- Details, scale 1:20 -- Designing the loadbearing structure -- The evolution of a loadbearing structure -- Steel production -- Mechanical properties -- Structural systems, structural elements -- Grids, geometrical arrangement -- Transport and erection -- Assembling and connecting -- Introduction -- Means of connection -- Columns / Beams -- Column base / Column-beam connection -- Bracing -- Examples -- Semi-finished products of steel -- Sections, bars and wires -- Plates and sheets -- Open-grid flooring, fabrics, meshes -- Wire ropes /Tie bar systems -- Corrosion protection, fire protection, building performance -- Corrosion protection -- Fire protection /Thermal performance / Acoustic performance -- Case studies in steel -- Overview -- Private house in Oldenburg -- Pretensioned strip bridge in the Via Mala gorge -- Additional storey in Stuttgart -- Private house with medical practice in Saulgau -- Restaurant and casino in Dresden -- Conversion of mine building in Peißenberg -- Private house in Dornbirn -- Hinzert documentation pavilion -- Appendix -- Tables -- Standards and directives / Associations -- Manufacturers / Further reading -- Index -- Picture credits.