Content Creators Within AEC [2024 Edition]

And 2000 Subscribers 🔥🔥

Hi friends, 👋

Let’s take a break from the engineering mechanics series for a week. We’ll be back on the topic next Wednesday.

Back in 2016 when I started university, content creation wasn’t a thing. 😥😥 And there were definitely no structural engineers creating content online in text or video.

Luckily, that has changed over the last 3–5 years and a few people from our industry were brave enough to share their knowledge publicly. 💻💻

And there is still more room for more content creators and content.

In this post, I am going to share the creators I have been following myself in the last years and from whom I could learn a lot. But I am curious to know who you are following and if I missed somebody? Let me know in the comments below. 📝📝

Before we dive into this topic, I have something exciting to share. We are now over 2000 people subscribed to this newsletter (wow 😮😮). If we continue to grow at the current speed of 600+ new people per month, we’ll be over, 8000 (!!) by the end of the year. Thanks to you all who read, engage, and share Structural Basics. 🙏🙏 This motivates me even more to provide you with high-quality and easy-to-understand structural content each Wednesday.

Let me know what type of content you want to consume from Structural Basics.

Now, let’s get into the topic of today.

Content creators in the AEC.

I did a post about the AEC (Architecture, Engineering & Construction) content creators that personally follow already a year ago. Back then 10–20 people were subscribed, my personal preferences have changed, new creators have appeared and some have disappeared. So, it’s time for an update.

#1 Brendan Hasty - YouTube

👉Brendan Hasty’s YT channel👈

Brendan is still my favourite creator. He is an Australian structural engineer with over 20 years of professional experience.

On his YouTube channel, he explains structural concepts, gives advice to young engineers, and breaks down real-world engineering projects.

It’s my favourite structural engineering-related YouTube channel. The content and video editing are great, and his content is applicable anywhere in the world.

#2 Ben Hielscher - YouTube

👉Ben’s YT channel👈

Over the last year, Ben’s YouTube channel has grown a lot. This channel wasn’t on my list last year, but now I am a regular consumer of Ben’s videos.

He’s a young structural engineer and also based in Australia. He covers structural design concepts and advice for engineering students. I really like his video editing. You can see that it requires a lot of time.

#3 Dr Sean Carroll (Engineering Skills/ Degree Tutors)

👉Sean’s YT channel 👈

👉Engineering Skills online platform👈

Sean changed the name of his learning platform from Degree Tutors to Engineering Skills, which came with a redesign of the website.

When you watch his videos, it’s obvious that Sean knows what he’s talking about. He offers courses for structural engineers and students covering analysis methods for the internal force calculation, design of advanced structures such as cables, reinforced concrete, and much more. Many of his courses are based on Python.

#4 Łukasz Skotny - Enterfea

👉Łukasz Skotny’s blog👈

Probably the best resource if you want to dive into the world of FEM. I subscribed to Lukasz’s newsletter and I can only recommend it. His writing is spot on and he also has online courses.

He’s not publishing a lot of new content, but the existing content on his blog is timeless. I find myself coming back to his blog regularly.

#5 BIM Corner

👉BIM Corner blog👈

BIM is undoubtedly part of our industry and our jobs as structural engineers. I started my career in BIM modelling and coordination. Back then, I was reading every single article from BIM Corner. BIM Corner is a great blog covering everything happening in the BIM industry. It’s managed by 6 Polish guys living and working in Norway.

When I lived in Germany and Austria, I was always fascinated by the implementation speed of digital tools and workflows in the Nordic countries (Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland). In terms of BIM, I have the impression that these countries are always 5 years ahead of Germany.

So, BIM Corner keeps you updated with the latest BIM news.

#6 Krzysztof Wojslaw - LearnGrasshopper

👉Learn Grasshopper homepage👈

As parametric design is more and more implemented in structural engineering and architecture, it’s great to have resources specifically for engineers.

Krzysytof has a weekly newsletter and a Grasshopper fundamentals online course.

#7 Civil Engineering Essentials - YouTube

👉Civil Engineering Essentials YT channel👈

CEE is a great resource if you are using Autodesk Robot. I don’t know who’s behind the channel, but the creator seems to be very competent with many years of experience.

I have watched many tutorials, and it’s saved me a lot of time figuring things out on my own.

#8 Paul Kassabian - YouTube

👉Paul's YT channel👈

Paul’s videos are excellent for getting a better understanding of the structural elements we are using such as trusses, beams, arches, frames, columns, and cables.

He’s great at explaining engineering fundamentals.

#9 James O'Reilly (Flocode) - Substack

👉James' Substack👈

James is a regular reader of this newsletter, and I am a regular reader of his. 😎😎

Python is a powerful coding language with many use cases in our industry. And it’s getting implemented more and more in universities and workflows at work.

If you want to get into Python, James has great and easy-to-follow introduction articles tailored for structural engineering.

Keep up the good work, James. 💪💪

Conclusion

That was my updated 2024 list of content creators I currently follow. But I am sure, I might have missed some?

Let me know which ones you are learning from in the comments below. ✍️✍️

See you next Wednesday. ✌️✌️

Have a great day!

Laurin