The book is a translation from a German monograph on the practice of designing and erecting structures and structures made of reinforced concrete. The following main issues are considered in the book: materials for prestressed reinforced concrete, anchor and tensioning devices, special equipment of various types, data on stress losses and their accounting, principles of designing stressed reinforced structures and features of the processes of their construction or manufacture, methods for calculating and selecting cross sections, data on fire resistance, etc. The book is intended for civil engineers.