Thirteen services, one practice
Select any service to jump to its full detail below — scope, benefits, process and features.
Structural engineering design
Reinforced concrete, steel and composite design, analysed, detailed and independently checked.
Read more Service 02Geotechnical investigation
Borehole programmes, testing and foundation recommendations before a single pile is driven.
Read more Service 03Corporate structuring
Procurement route, risk allocation and package interfaces settled before tender.
Read more Service 04Infrastructure, roads & drainage
Highway geometry, stormwater networks, earthworks and utility corridors.
Read more Service 05Project management
Programme control, cost monitoring and one accountable point of contact.
Read more Service 06Construction supervision
Resident engineers verifying that what is built matches what was designed.
Read more Service 07BIM & digital delivery
Federated models to LOD 400, clash detection and drawings issued from the model.
Read more Service 08Quantity surveying
Bills of quantities, tender analysis and valuations that track the real position.
Read more Service 09Project financial planning
Development budgets and cash flow modelled against the construction sequence.
Read more Service 10Risk management
A live register with named owners and triggers defined before they are needed.
Read more Service 11Regulatory compliance
Design checked against governing codes before submission, not after comments.
Read more Service 12Documentation support
Registers, revision control and transmittals that keep everyone on the current drawing.
Read more Service 13Government & authority liaison
Submissions lodged, comments answered and permits tracked through to issue.
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Request a consultationStructural engineering design
Complete structural design for reinforced concrete, structural steel and composite buildings — from load path and system selection through to reinforcement detailing a steel fixer can build from without querying.
Key benefits
- Independent verification catches errors before the reviewer does
- Value engineering typically reduces concrete and steel tonnage
- Details tested against buildability, not just code compliance
- The design engineer stays reachable through construction
| Load assessment & system selection | Step 1 |
| Analytical modelling | Step 2 |
| Member sizing & hand verification | Step 3 |
| Detailing & bar schedules | Step 4 |
| Independent check | Step 5 |
| Issue for approval | Step 6 |
- Gravity, wind and seismic analysis
- Post-tensioned and conventional slab systems
- Transfer structures and long-span solutions
- Basement and retaining wall design
| Desk study & investigation planning | Step 1 |
| Borehole & trial pit programme | Step 2 |
| In-situ & laboratory testing | Step 3 |
| Interpretation & analysis | Step 4 |
| Foundation recommendation report | Step 5 |
- SPT, plate load and CBR testing
- Bearing capacity and settlement analysis
- Pile capacity assessment
- Sulphate, chloride and groundwater evaluation
Geotechnical investigation
Ground investigation planned, supervised and interpreted by the same team that will design the foundations — so the report answers the questions the structural engineer actually needs answered.
Key benefits
- Foundation type selected on data rather than assumption
- Over-conservative foundations identified and reduced
- Durability requirements established before mix design
- Ground risk quantified before the contract is priced
Corporate structuring for project delivery
Advice on how a development is contractually and organisationally assembled — the split between employer, consultant and contractor responsibilities, and the procurement route that suits the project's risk profile.
Key benefits
- Risk allocated to the party best able to control it
- Procurement route matched to programme certainty needs
- Interface gaps between packages identified before tender
- Clear lines of technical authority from day one
| Project objectives & constraints review | Step 1 |
| Procurement options appraisal | Step 2 |
| Risk allocation matrix | Step 3 |
| Package breakdown & interfaces | Step 4 |
| Recommendation report | Step 5 |
- Traditional, design-build and management routes compared
- Consultant and contractor scope definition
- Responsibility matrices for technical decisions
- Interface schedules between work packages
| Topographic survey & catchment study | Step 1 |
| Horizontal & vertical alignment | Step 2 |
| Pavement & network sizing | Step 3 |
| Utility corridor coordination | Step 4 |
| Construction drawings & approvals | Step 5 |
- Highway geometric design and junction layout
- Stormwater modelling and attenuation design
- Foul drainage, gravity and pumped
- Retaining structures and earthworks balance
Infrastructure, roads and drainage
The civil works between and beneath buildings — access roads, stormwater and foul networks, earthworks and utility corridors — designed to authority standards and coordinated with the building packages.
Key benefits
- Drainage sized for real catchment data, not rules of thumb
- Utility clashes resolved on the drawing rather than in the trench
- Earthworks balanced to reduce import and disposal costs
- Adoption requirements met first time
Project management consultancy
A single accountable party coordinating consultants, contractors and authorities against a programme and a budget — with reporting that tells you what is going wrong while there is still time to act.
Key benefits
- One point of accountability across all parties
- Slippage flagged with recovery options, not just reported
- Commercial and physical progress reconciled monthly
- Decisions escalated with a recommendation attached
| Mobilisation & baseline programme | Step 1 |
| Consultant & contractor coordination | Step 2 |
| Progress monitoring & reporting | Step 3 |
| Change & claim management | Step 4 |
| Handover & close-out | Step 5 |
- Critical path monitoring and early warning
- Monthly cost and progress reporting
- Contract administration and valuations
- Extension-of-time and variation assessment
| Inspection & test plan agreement | Step 1 |
| Material submittal review | Step 2 |
| Works inspection & witness points | Step 3 |
| Non-conformance tracking | Step 4 |
| As-built verification & handover | Step 5 |
- Resident or periodic inspection engineers
- Reinforcement and pre-pour approvals
- Concrete testing witness and result review
- Site instruction and RFI response
Construction supervision
Engineers on site confirming that what is being built matches what was designed — inspecting reinforcement before it disappears under concrete, and closing out non-conformances rather than logging them.
Key benefits
- Defects caught while they are still cheap to correct
- Design intent defended against unauthorised substitution
- Site queries answered by someone who knows the design
- Complete inspection record for handover and warranty
BIM and digital delivery
Federated modelling to LOD 400 under ISO 19650, with drawings issued from the model rather than maintained alongside it — so the drawing set and the model never contradict each other.
Key benefits
- Clashes resolved in the model before they become RFIs
- Quantities extracted directly, reducing measurement error
- Single source of truth across all disciplines
- As-built model handed over as an asset record
- Step 1 — BIM execution plan and naming protocol
- Step 2 — Discipline model authoring
- Step 3 — Federation and clash detection cycles
- Step 4 — Coordinated drawing issue
- Step 5 — As-built model and asset data handover
- Structural, architectural and MEP federation
- 4D programme linkage for staged construction
- Model-based quantity take-off
- Common data environment management
| Elemental cost plan | Step 1 |
| Bills of quantities | Step 2 |
| Tender issue & analysis | Step 3 |
| Interim valuations | Step 4 |
| Final account settlement | Step 5 |
- Measurement from model where available
- Tender comparison and recommendation reports
- Variation pricing and assessment
- Cash flow forecasting
Quantity surveying and cost consultancy
Measurement-based cost control from concept estimate through to final account, so the commercial position is always reconciled against what has actually been built.
Key benefits
- Budget tested against measured quantities, not benchmarks alone
- Tender returns analysed for what has been priced out
- Variations assessed before they are agreed
- Final account disputes reduced by contemporaneous records
Project financial planning
Development budgets, cash flow forecasts and funding drawdown schedules built from the construction programme, so financing aligns with the rate at which the project actually spends.
Key benefits
- Cash flow modelled against the real construction sequence
- Contingency sized to identified risk, not a flat percentage
- Funding drawdowns matched to certified progress
- Cost overrun exposure visible before it materialises
Note: this is project cost planning, not regulated financial or investment advice.
| Development budget build-up | Step 1 |
| Programme-linked cash flow | Step 2 |
| Risk & contingency sizing | Step 3 |
| Drawdown schedule | Step 4 |
| Periodic reforecast | Step 5 |
- S-curve expenditure forecasting
- Sensitivity analysis on key cost drivers
- Retention and payment term modelling
- Monthly variance reporting
| Risk identification workshop | Step 1 |
| Likelihood & impact assessment | Step 2 |
| Mitigation & ownership assignment | Step 3 |
| Register maintenance | Step 4 |
| Periodic review & reporting | Step 5 |
- Technical, commercial and programme risk
- Quantified contingency recommendations
- Named owner against every open risk
- Escalation triggers defined in advance
Risk management
A live risk register with named owners and defined triggers, reviewed at fixed intervals — not a document produced at inception and opened again at the post-mortem.
Key benefits
- Risks surfaced while mitigation is still possible
- Contingency justified by identified exposure
- Accountability attached to every open item
- Decision points reached before the deadline, not at it
Regulatory compliance
Design reviewed against the codes, specifications and authority requirements that will govern the approval — before submission rather than after the first round of comments.
Key benefits
- Non-compliances identified before a reviewer finds them
- Design basis stated explicitly on every package
- Fewer approval cycles, shorter programme
- Compliance evidence retained for handover
| Applicable code identification | Step 1 |
| Design basis statement | Step 2 |
| Compliance gap review | Step 3 |
| Remedial design adjustment | Step 4 |
| Approval-readiness sign-off | Step 5 |
- Structural code compliance verification
- Fire and life safety coordination
- Accessibility requirement review
- Specification conformity checking
| Document register & numbering | Step 1 |
| Package compilation | Step 2 |
| Revision & issue control | Step 3 |
| Comment tracking & response | Step 4 |
| As-built & O&M handover | Step 5 |
- Drawing and document registers
- Transmittal and issue records
- Tender and contract documentation
- Operation and maintenance manuals
Documentation support
The register, revision control and transmittal discipline that keeps every party working from the current drawing — and produces a defensible record if a dispute arises later.
Key benefits
- Superseded drawings withdrawn from circulation
- Every issue traceable to a date and a recipient
- Approval comments tracked to closure
- Complete handover package assembled as you go
Government and authority liaison
Submission packages prepared in the format reviewers expect, lodged on your behalf, and tracked through comment rounds to permit issue — with you copied on the correspondence throughout.
Key benefits
- Submissions built to the reviewer's checklist
- Comments answered by the engineer who made the decision
- Approval status visible rather than reported at the end
- Connection and completion applications handled in sequence
| Requirement & checklist confirmation | Step 1 |
| Submission package assembly | Step 2 |
| Lodgement & tracking | Step 3 |
| Comment response & resubmission | Step 4 |
| Permit issue & completion certificate | Step 5 |
- Building permit applications
- Civil defence and fire safety approvals
- Utility connection applications and NOCs
- Completion certificate coordination
How clients typically engage us
Single discipline
One service, defined scope, fixed fee. Common where an existing team needs structural design or a ground investigation only.
Design & approvals
Full design package through to permit issue, with a reduced periodic inspection scope during construction.
Full lifecycle
Feasibility through to completion certificate, including supervision, cost consultancy and authority liaison.