Structural Design & Civil Engineering Consultants

We specialise in sustainable development, offering expert structural design consultancy and civil engineering consultant services across various sectors.
Our structural team has specialist skills in the following key sectors:

Education – schools, colleges, universities
Industrial – Manufacturing, Distribution and Warehousing, Energy from Waste
Residential, Student Accommodation, Hotels, Mixed-use Developments
High-rise buildings
Hospitals and Laboratories
Sports and Leisure – Stadium, Swimming Pools, Sports Halls
Fire Stations
Offices
Rail
Building Refurbishments and Change of use
Building and Dilapidation Surveys

Our Services are ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and ISO 45001 certified and accredited by the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS)

Our Structural Division is headed by Ganesh Thapa, a Director possessing a wealth of knowledge and experience gained from the UK’s leading consultants, namely WSP, Atkins, TSP and a contractor, Shepherd Construction Ltd. Ganesh, with his managerial and engineering excellence, has a proven track record of delivering projects up to £200M. He is a Chartered Engineer and has co-lectured the IStructE CM Exam prep course (Yorkshire Branch) from 2003 to 2019.

We take great pride in our close relationships with a diverse range of clients. As experienced civil engineering consultants, we have worked with organisations across both the private and public sectors, delivering expert structural design consultancy and multidisciplinary services throughout the project life cycle.

Education – schools, colleges, universities

Strengthened by three chartered engineers our Structural team has over 30 years of experience in delivering Schools, Colleges, and University Buildings with Breeam Excellence. We have specific expertise in newbuild and refurbishment of existing, in particular working around live building activites.

Residential, Student Accommodation, Hotels, Mixed-use Developments

Our structural design consultancy team has extensive expertise in delivering designs for mixed-use developments, including below-ground basements, ground, and upper floors designated for retail and residential use. As experienced civil engineering consultants, we proactively collaborate with inter-disciplinary teams to optimise Gross Internal Floor Areas, ensuring structural supports are seamlessly integrated within internal and external walls. Additionally, we strategically position service penetrations to maximise floor plate efficiency.

Hospitals and Laboratories

Our designers have successfully delivered the design of hospital and laboratory buildings over the years and are familiar with the strict sensitivity requirements to floor vibrations and the integration of heavy MEP services within the structure. We develop the design in close liaison with the Architects and the M&E consultants in order to provide the most efficient structure to satisfy the technical and serviceability requirements.

Industrial – Manufacturing, Distribution and Warehousing, Energy from Waste

As a leading structural design consultancy, we understand the complexities of MEP services in manufacturing and energy-from-waste buildings, utilising a BIM approach to coordinate services with the structure. Our expertise extends to civil engineering for planning, ensuring efficient and sustainable designs.
With extensive experience in designing distribution and warehouse buildings, we apply industry best practices to create lightweight structures without compromising quality or performance. We recognise that the floor slab design is critical in these buildings, so we take special care in joint design and spacing to ensure long-term durability and defect-free performance.

High-rise buildings

As a leading structural design consultancy, our chartered engineers have the expertise to design multistorey tower blocks ranging from 12 to 55 stories. We specialise in civil engineering for planning, and addressing critical challenges associated with tall buildings, including lateral sway, dynamic stability, vibrations, column shortening, and torsion in stability cores.
Our team is highly experienced in delivering cost-effective solutions for floor plates, incorporating advanced techniques such as post-tensioning and efficient flat slab designs to optimise structural performance and overall project efficiency.

Fire Stations

Our designers have successfully delivered numerous fire station buildings under local authority framework agreements. We have experience in integrating within building structure, fast acting roller shutter doors, service trenches with the floor slabs and fire drill towers.

Sports and Leisure – Stadium, Swimming Pools, Sports Halls

Our structural team has extensive experience in designing sports and leisure facilities namely sports halls, swimming pools and grand stadia buildings. We frame the structure around the spatial requirements of different sports, for example we provide long span beams and secondary supports outside of badminton courts to optimise the height of the building. Our designers have successfully designed and delivered 10 stadiums over the span of their careers.

Offices

Our key strengths are in designing the office buildings both in steel and concrete framing. We have the state-of-the-art software in simulating the buildings in 3D for optimising the design. Armed with these powerful design tools, we go through numerous design iterations to provide the most cost effective and value engineered solutions to satisfy our clients’ needs.

Building and Dilapidation Surveys

We have expertise in carrying out independent building and dilapidation surveys to record the condition of existing assets. This is particularly important where new works are being carried out in close proximity to existing properties, so impact of new works if any can be assessed and quantified during and after the works. We aim to act swiftly in carrying out the survey and issue reports within days of carrying out the survey.

Rail

We have extensive experience working with rail projects which are process driven and have strict approval procedures to eliminate or mitigate design and construction risks in projects prior works commencing on site. We have approved and qualified CRE’s with a number of years of experience in delivering rail projects.

Building Refurbishments and Change of use

Our designers have been involved with numerous refurbishment projects ranging from small extensions to large scale modifications such as adding basements to existing buildings. Our team also has experience in assessing the strength capacity and design life of existing buildings to ascertain their fitness for change of use. We have successfully worked in building modification works which have required insertion of lifts, removal of structural beams and columns to suit new spatial layouts.

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