Structural ​Design Service

We help project teams achieve their vision by creating imaginative and coordinated structural designs supported by state-of-the-art methodologies that provide insightful parameters that expand the information for decision-makers in the selection of the best structural alternative.

Stage 1

Schematic Design

Requirement:
-Project brief.
Scope:
-Studying project constraints.
-Defining design basis.
-Establishing design alternatives.
Deliverables:
-Report with appraisal and recommendations of the preliminary structural alternatives.
​-Structural options' sketches.

Stage 2

Concept Design

​Requirement:
-Architectural plan and elevation drawings.
​-Schematic design alternative from Stage 1 or a provided preliminary structural configuration.
Scope:
-Structural geometry and configuration  development.
Deliverables:
-Analysis report.
​-Structural plans and elevations drawings.
-Revit (BIM) structural model.
-Structural embodied carbon analysis.
-Cost estimation based on material quantities and estimated labor costs (Optional).
​-Estimated time of construction (optional).

Stage 3

Detailed Design

​Requirement:
-Concept Design.
Scope:
-Development of construction drawings.
Deliverables:
-Detail drawings.
-Report with relevant detail calculations.

Application

All three stages can be applied separately or in combinations, applying for:

• New Buildings.

• Remodeling that incorporate new additions to existing buildings.

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• ​Adaptive Reuse.

​Structural design that leads to the development of high-performance buildings

Value to your project

Integrated Design Approach

Each design objective is significantly important in any project, yet a truly successful one is where project goals are identified early on and held in proper balance during the design process; and where their interrelationships and interdependencies with all building systems are understood, evaluated, appropriately applied, and coordinated concurrently from the planning and programming phase. A high-performance building cannot be achieved unless the integrated design approach is employed. Integrated design is governed by two principal components: the integration of form and performance and the integration of multiple building systems. 

Sustainable Design

The impact that we (structural engineers) are having on sustainability is profound. Structural engineers are responsible for specifying and designing most of the mass and a significant percentage of the cost of every building. We engage with embodied carbon impact throughout the design process, provide structural options for evaluating carbon impact with other important design factors, and serve as experts in making recommendations to the overall design team and the owner. Embodied carbon is the carbon footprint of a building or infrastructure project before it becomes operational. Understanding embodied carbon and leading conversations about the impacts of design decisions is critical. Structural engineers are in the driver’s seat to understand the impact of material choices and system decisions.

BIM Methodology

With Building Information Modelling (BIM), when starting from an accurate 3D modeling phase, architects and buyers alike, can now leverage their communication abilities with additional content to experience spatial perception, material qualities and design solutions using cutting-edge visualization technologies applied to architecture​. Plan, view, and check your design choices.  BIM allows to conduct informed decisions about design choices, visualize design solutions in a realistic way, communicate with the client effectively, promote collaboration with other professionals and avoid unforeseen events during construction phases. Allows to create digital 3D models and manage all the information associated with a project (material layers, materials, costs and execution timing, etc.), at every stage of the asset’s life cycle. 

Cost-Effectiveness Assessment

Value and economy are improved through the study of alternate design concepts, materials, and methods without compromising the functional and value objectives of the client. Relates to selecting building elements on the basis of life-cycle costs (weighing options during concepts, design development, and value engineering) as well as basic cost estimating and economic analysis to evaluate design alternatives.

​Resilience

​Is the ability to reduce the magnitude and/or duration of disruptive events. The effectiveness of a resilient infrastructure or enterprise depends upon its ability to anticipate, absorb, adapt to, and/or rapidly recover from a potentially disruptive event