Steel Structure & Foundation Design.
Pipe racks, equipment structures, platforms, gantries and towers, and the foundations beneath them, designed around the real loads of the equipment and piping they carry.
Is This Where You Are?
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Structural engineers in the same team as the mechanical and electrical designers, so loads reach the structure directly and early.
Tell us about the asset and the stage; an engineer replies with a proposed scope.
Discuss Your ProjectStructures and foundations designed around your existing plant, with access and clashes checked in the plant model.
Tell us about the asset and the stage; an engineer replies with a proposed scope.
Discuss Your ProjectSubstation and line structures designed with the electrical design they support.
Tell us about the asset and the stage; an engineer replies with a proposed scope.
Discuss Your ProjectEngineering Scope.
The support is selected around your Asset, the decision ahead and the agreed Project Stage.
Steel Structures
- Pipe racks
- Equipment structures, platforms and walkways
- Skid base frames
- Substation gantries and equipment supports
- Lattice towers and poles
Foundations
- Equipment and skid foundations
- Storage tank foundations
- Chimney and stack foundations
- Transformer and switchyard foundations
- Tower and pole foundations
- Machine foundations for rotating equipment
Civil Works
- Cable trenches and ducting
- Drainage
Loads
- Equipment, nozzle and pipe support loads
- Wind and seismic loads to the applicable code
- Lifting and transport loads for skids
Proof in Practice · Chemical · Detailed Engineering
Detailed Engineering of a Multi-Specialty Chemical Plant
Mechanical, electrical, instrumentation and thermal design delivered together for a multi-product chemical plant.
- Sector
- Industrial & Process Plants
- Year
- 2023
How We Work on It.
The method behind every engagement. The detail is set out in the proposal and the design basis.
Inputs and Deliverables.
A practical starting point and the Engineering outputs to agree for your Project.
What We Need from You
- Plot plan and equipment layout
- Equipment weights and load data
- Soil investigation report
- Site wind and seismic data
- Governing codes and specifications
Send what is available. We will identify missing information before confirming the scope and programme.
What You Receive.
- Structural design basis
- Calculation reports
- GA and structural drawings
- Foundation drawings with reinforcement details
- Anchor bolt layouts
- Tower and pole design reports
The exact deliverables are fixed in the agreed scope for each Project.
Standards and Compliance.
We engineer to the standards and regulations that govern your Project, fixed in the design basis.
Typical references for this Service: National steel, concrete and loading codes, such as IS, AISC / ACI / ASCE, Eurocodes or AS.
Applicable standards and editions are agreed and fixed in each Project's design basis.
How We Assure the Work
Appointed the Way You Need.
Detailed Engineer
Structural and foundation design within the package.
Owner's Engineer
Independent review and site quality.
Design Partner
Structures and foundations for your equipment and skids.
Questions Clients Ask.
Can you use our soil report?
Yes. If it doesn't cover what the foundation design needs, we'll tell you what's missing.
Do you design foundations for vibrating machines?
Yes.
Where This Service Applies.
This Service appears in the scope of 6 Sectors. Select a Stage to see the full scope for that Sector.
This Service in Practice.
Selected engagements, described without confidential details.