Structural element

A structural panel consisting of two sheets of sheet material that are deformed at intervals along their respective lengths and widths to provide pods that protrude from respective planes of the respective sheets, wherein the two sheets are outermost sheets of the structural panel and form outermost surfaces, wherein the two sheets act as tensile and compression chords for the structural panel, with the pods comprising multiple inwardly orientated pods throughout the structural panel, the inwardly orientated pods having pod apexes that are joined together, which pods have a close proximity to one another in order to be mechanically interdependent creating a double depth space-frame lattice type matrix where loads placed on a surface of the structural panel are resisted and transferred through the chords and with the inwardly oriented pods acting as interconnecting diagonal braces such that the loads are transmitted along the surfaces of the pods in multiple directions and distributed throughout the structural panel, wherein the walls of a side cross-section of joined pods, due to the close proximity of the pods in each sheet, form diamond beam formations between adjacent joined pods such that multiple diamond beam structures are formed by the diamond beam formations in the structural panel in negative spaces immediately between pairs of joined pods, the walls of the diamond beam formations being straight between outwardly oriented, rounded, apexes of the diamond beam formations and the pod apexes of the inwardly oriented pods.