Representative concrete bridge structural system
Buildings & industrial facilities

Buildings & Industrial Facilities: Structural Analysis & Design

We define actions, restraints, load paths, stability systems and design situations before selecting the analytical model. Member resistance is then checked as part of a complete structural system.

01 · Technical scope

Capabilities

  • Structural schemes and design-basis development
  • Reinforced-concrete, structural-steel and masonry analysis and design
  • Mixed and composite structural systems where within the agreed scope
  • Building and industrial structural systems
  • Structural alterations, openings and extensions
  • Frames, platforms, supports and specialist components
  • Member, connection and interface verification
  • Ultimate, serviceability, stability and accidental design situations as applicable
  • Second-order response, buckling, drift and deformation assessment
  • Masonry wall, pier, diaphragm and lateral-load-path studies
  • Design review and rationalization
  • Calculation reports and project-appropriate drawings
02 · Technical scope

Building, Industrial and Specialist Structural Services

Depending on project type and appointment, services may include:

  • Concept design, option studies and structural scheme selection
  • Basis-of-design development and multidisciplinary interface definition
  • Detailed analysis, member design, connection design and documentation
  • Multi-storey, long-span, slender and stability-sensitive structural systems
  • Industrial frames, pipe racks, platforms, walkways and access structures
  • Equipment, vessel, machinery and utility-support structures
  • Crane runway beams, monorail supports and moving-load structural checks
  • Skids, modules, transportation frames and temporary support systems
  • Structural openings, extensions, change of use and retrofit design
  • Foundation reaction development and structural-geotechnical interface checks
  • Independent design review, peer review and code-compliance assessment
03 · Technical scope

Analysis and Design Situations

  • Permanent, imposed, wind, seismic and project-specific environmental actions
  • Ultimate, serviceability, fatigue and accidental limit states where applicable
  • Global stability, second-order effects, buckling and robustness
  • Progressive-collapse and alternate-load-path assessment where required
  • Structural vibration, machinery response and serviceability studies
  • Thermal, shrinkage, imposed-deformation and restraint effects
  • Staged-construction and erection-sequence analysis
  • Temporary stability, propping, lifting and construction-engineering checks
  • Impact, blast or structural-fire response when actions are defined by the appropriate specialist discipline
  • Nonlinear, contact and local-global finite-element analysis where simpler methods are insufficient
04 · Technical scope

Existing Asset and Lifecycle Engineering

  • Baseline structural condition and adequacy assessment
  • Inspection, testing and monitoring strategy development
  • Reassessment following damage, deterioration, alteration or increased loading
  • Repair, strengthening, redundancy and residual-capacity studies
  • Remaining-service and life-extension engineering where evidence permits
  • Construction-stage technical support and design-change review
  • Deconstruction, demolition-sequence and temporary-stability studies where appointed
05 · Technical scope

Approach

We begin by defining use, reliability or consequence requirements, geometry, materials, design life, actions, environment, interfaces and governing standards. The analytical model is developed only to the fidelity required by the structural question. Results are examined through equilibrium, force flow, deformation, stability, governing limit states, independent calculations and constructability before design information is issued.

Depending on jurisdiction and contract basis, work may be developed under Indian Standards, the EN Eurocodes, applicable masonry codes, AISC and ASCE frameworks for steel and loading, or ACI requirements for structural concrete. Editions, national annexes and project supplements are agreed at project commencement.

Clear idealization is the first act of structural design.
Connected capability

Continue through the practice.

Structural questions frequently cross service boundaries. The appointment is assembled around the actual decision.

Project enquiry

Bring us the structure and the decision that must be verified.

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