The article is devoted to the reduction of steel consumption in the compressed zone of reinforced concrete elements. Special attention is paid to the combined prestressing, in which the armature of the stretched zone is subjected to prestressing, and compressed – prestressing. The combined prestressing allows to reduce the steel consumption, and also to increase the performance of many technical characteristics by increasing the limit stresses in the high-strength reinforcement of the compressed and stretched zones

Keywords: the combined prestressing, compressed area, consumption of steel compressed fittings