Roof. Frame. Connection. Foundation.
I design steelwork and civil works for fabricators, industrial clients, architects, and builders. Connection design too, where the quote includes it. You deal with me from start to finish.
Chartered structural engineering for fabricators, industrial clients, architects, and builders. Paul Kangunga CEng MIStructE, Huddersfield.
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“Clear calcs, clear drawings, and one engineer who picks up the phone.” Paul Kangunga, CEng MIStructE
Civi Struct Workshop is a one-person practice. The engineer you brief is the engineer who designs your work and signs it off.
Steel costs money. I size each member to the loads it carries, and the calculations show the working.
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A structure only works when every part hands its load to the next. I can design the whole route, or the part you need.
Press and hold the button to reveal all four parts. They also appear on their own if you prefer reduced motion.
I am a Chartered Member of the Institution of Structural Engineers.
Site visits from Huddersfield. Desk-based calculations for anywhere in the UK.
A solo practice. Your job is not passed to someone you have never spoken to.
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Seven kinds of work, one engineer. Pick yours.
The industrial side 04
Much of my work has been on industrial sites: defence, petrochemical, gas, and heavy industry. That work has a different shape to a house extension. The loads are awkward, the equipment was bought before anyone thought about supporting it, and the paperwork has to survive a client’s own independent check.
Process equipment arrives as a package with a weight, a footprint, and an assumption that somebody will carry it. I design the skid frames, the module framing, the vessel and pump supports, the pipe racks, and the access steelwork around them, sized for lifting and transport as well as for standing still.
Pipe stress analysis produces support loads. Those loads have to land on something that exists. I review the stress report, tell you whether the anchors and guides it assumes can actually be built, and then design the steel and concrete that takes them.
I work to the Eurocodes, and to AISC and ASCE where the client’s specification is American. Both, on the same job, when that is what the package needs.
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The work 06
Typical work for professional, industrial, and energy clients.
Fees 07
The quote sets out what is included. I am not VAT registered, so no VAT is added.
Questions 08
It depends on the job. Send the drawings and I will quote in writing. No VAT is added.
I do. Civi Struct Workshop is a one-person practice, and I am a Chartered Structural Engineer, CEng MIStructE.
Yes, where the quote includes it. The quote says which parts of the design are mine.
I am based in Huddersfield, HD8, and site visits start from there. Desk-based calculations can be for anywhere in the UK. Building Regulations work covers England and Wales.
Yes. That is where most of my career has been. Skid and equipment frames, pipe racks, and the civils around energy and power infrastructure. If you are a package builder or a plant operator, that is the work I do.
Yes. Eurocodes and the UK National Annexes by default, and AISC and ASCE where the client’s specification calls for them.
No, not as a service in its own right. What I do is read the stress report properly, challenge the support loads it assumes, and design the structure that has to take them. Plenty of stress reports pass loads downstream to a structure nobody has designed yet. That is the gap I fill.
There is no standard turnaround for this work. The date depends on the job and on receiving all the information. Ask, and I will give you a date for your job.
I do not carry out building condition surveys, pre-purchase surveys, or reports for mortgage lenders. For a whole-house check before you buy, a RICS Home Survey is the usual route.
Yes, through The Beam Doctor, my residential service at thebeamdoctor.co.uk.
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Tell me about the job and I will reply by email.
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