This course presents a manuscript dealing broadly with a detailed course on building in the field of civil engineering, it is intended for students in the first year of the Master's degree in Civil Engineering, Structures option (Second cycle of the LMD).

The main objective of this course is to enable second cycle students to exploit the attractive world of construction by focusing on terminology, legislation, development, methodology and design of a building project.

This handout is organized into five (05) chapters which follow in the following order:

The first chapter presents the different constituent elements of a building, to allow students to become familiar with the different parts of a building.

In the second chapter, we present the regulatory and legislative texts of the building as well as the technical regulations of design and execution, type DTR, the aim of this chapter is to make students aware of the importance of knowledge of the laws and regulations which organize the field of the building.

The third chapter shows the different stakeholders for the development of a building project in order to succeed in the project through collaboration and coordination between these stakeholders, while defining the quality and the procedure for choosing each stakeholder.

In the fourth chapter, the different plans in a building project are presented. This is an essential step for the good design and execution of a construction project.

This handout is closed by a fifth chapter which highlights the different loads applied to a building and their modes of transmission in order to size the elements of a building. At the end of chapter 5, an example of load descent is illustrated.

Several appendices are cited at the end of the handout to enable good mastery of the calculations of forces in the building and to provide more illustrations of the different points covered in this course.