The textile reinforced concrete is a material with increased mechanical properties that can allow the production of lighter structural elements. The alkali-resistant textile reinforcement is not affected by corrosion. A structural facade panel and a light pole were modeled in order to study their behavior in the case of wind pressure. The developed numerical simulations were calibrated according to available data from the literature. These simulations revealed information potentially useful in the planning of further experimental tests.

Today’s architectural and civil engineering design is almost inconceivable without collaborative tools. Building Information Modeling supports this with a set of collaboratively usable data. The roots of this concept go back in the past, thus the present paper attempts to depict some of the milestones in its evolution.

Earthquake zones cover a significant part of our earth, therefore, when planning and designing residential areas, factories, or other human establishments, professionals have to take into account the seismic hazard of that area. The current earthquake standard in Romania is based on the European code. This paper presents, beside the most significant structural composition rules, the applicable methods that can be used to ensure sufficient load bearing requirements.

In case of old metal constructions, there is to say where the bearing structure dominates, material issues have a great influence on the behaviour of the construction, in terms of function and safety. Old metal constructions have generally a monumental nature, so preservation, restoration and rehabilitation works are inseparable from material issues. Due to the monumental nature, the material research generally allows only minor damage, so these investigations require the use of special methods.

The textile reinforced concrete is a material with increased mechanical properties that can allow the production of lighter structural elements. The alkali-resistant textile reinforcement is not affected by corrosion. A structural facade panel and a light pole were modelled in order to study their behavior in case of wind pressure. The developed numerical simulations were calibrated upon the available data from the literature. These simulations revealed some information that may worth to be taken into consideration in order to plan further experimental tests.