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Our Role
To provide a check on all stages of the design and build, hence reducing the likelihood of customer getting duped. Yes, getting duped! This happens a lot. We will detect flaws in engineering and spending which a customer would never have suspected.
Our Role
  • To provide a check on all stages of the design and build, hence reducing the likelihood of customer getting duped. Yes, getting duped! This happens a lot. We will detect flaws in engineering and spending which a customer would never have suspected.
Common Challenges, the emerging world context
  • You appoint a relative to look after your project but they are not a building professional and have no clue as to what is required. They may easily be convinced to compromise on quality. They may have other priorities and your project money gets diverted.
  • Your builder pulls wool over your eyes, costing you too much of your hard-earned cash. Our professionals can smooth out the build process for owners and reduce the likelihood of the problems listed above.
  • You pay large amounts of money for your dream home, but you end up getting an average house, only for your builder to tell you “this is how we do it here!”.
  • Your builder tells you that you need 815 bags of cement for a specific task, meanwhile in fact only 120 bags are needed or used. In fact he only uses 60bags.
  • Your builder tells you that the unit price of an item is multiples (2 to 10 times) of what of the actual price.
  • Your builder tells you that the foundation is 2m deep with a re-enforced base, meanwhile in reality it is half that depth and there is no re-enforcement at the base.
  • The headroom of your house is much lower than what the builder has told you. He saved himself extra work and material here at your expense, of course, and you have to live in a house with a very low ceiling.
  • Customers usually overlook the drainage system of the property. Builders want you to do so. The public health aspects of your housing need to be prioritized. When you start noticing poor drainage your builder would have made his money and disappeared, leaving you to suffer the consequences.
  • Your construction does not include load-balancing. This is important for the structural integrity of your home.
  • You realize that moisture has been rising through the micro-asperities of the walls of your home. Once construction is complete there is nothing that you can do, without major expenditure, to solve this. Measures must be taken to prevent this during the design and construction phases of your project.
  • An untrained person will never know whether damp prevention or load-balancing is included in the construction. You should disregard all the assurances that the builder gives you. Only our trained professionals can help you ensure that these are incorporated during the build process.
  • A building is not just brick and mortar. It is your treasured business premises or your valued home. It is your safe heaven. You love and care about the people who will live in it. You have spent a bank loan or a significant portion of your life savings to construct it. Make sure you are not paying double the cost. Make sure that it is well constructed. At a very small fraction of what it would cost you if you do not use our professional services, we can help you save significant cost, insulate you from unending stress during construction, and prevent future problems that come with a badly constructed building.
Statement of intent
  • A building is not just brick and mortar. It is your treasured business premises or your valued home. It is your safe heaven. You love and care about the people who will live in it. You have spent a bank loan or a significant portion of your life savings to construct it. Make sure you are not paying double the cost. Make sure that it is well constructed. At a very small fraction of what it would cost you if you do not use our professional services, we can help you save significant cost, insulate you from unending stress during construction, and prevent future problems that come with a badly constructed building.
  • We can insulate you from the stresses of the build process.
  • We can help you save tens of thousands of dollars.
  • We can help you save time.
  • We can help you ensure quality.
  • We can ask the difficult, but necessary, questions.
  • We can verify prices.
  • We can accurately calculate quantity.
  • We can assess the quality of work done and recommend early corrections.
  • We can be your partner from the start to the end of the build process.
  • We will make you feel assured and in control of you building project.
  • We can ask the right questions on your behalf that will send any cowboy builder running.
  • We will hold your hand and we will provide expert advice.
Our Services
Comprehensive Engineering & Construction Solutions

From initial consultancy to final industrial maintenance, we provide end-to-end expertise across every stage of the construction lifecycle to ensure excellence and durability

Design

Check architectural and structural designs for safety, complexity, cost, lighting, ventilation, environment, and insulation.

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Foundations

Assess foundation design with soil conditions to ensure proper load support and stability.

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Quantification of materials

Calculate cement, steel, sand, aggregates needed; verify usage and mix quality.

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Price verification

Verify material prices and quality on-site to prevent overcharging and leakage.

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Build process supervision and inspection

Daily monitoring via visits, photos, videos to ensure correct methods and early error fixing.

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Structural calculations

Independently verify structural calculations for safety and compliance.

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Safety investigations

Scientifically investigate incidents and provide clear reports on causes.

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Health and safety assessment

Assess and advise on health and safety for projects and workspaces.

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Expert witness & expert reporting

Provide expert analysis and reports to support legal disputes.

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Design

  • Our technical experts can look at your architectural design to verify that it is sound and fit for purpose. We will make recommendations as required.
  • Is your design unnecessarily complicated?
  • Does it contain features that may pose extra unnecessary complications during the construction process or adversely affect structural integrity?
  • Will some features be extremely costly but add no aesthetic or engineering value?
  • Our experts can verify that your structural design is sound and meets safety requirements.
  • Remember that architects are not structural engineers, and just because something is on an architectural drawing does not necessarily mean that it is structurally sound.
  • Our experts can assess the lighting and ventilation regimes of your property and suggest recommendations.
  • Our experts can assess the environmental impact of your building.
  • Our experts can assess the thermal insulation of your building design.

Foundations

  • A structure is as good as its foundations.
  • We can make a detailed assessment of the foundation design, ensuring that the local soil quality is considered in the design, such that the foundations correctly support the loads and distribute the stresses.

Quantification of materials

  • We have experts that can accurately calculate the quantity of material needed for each stage of the job. This will include the expected tolerances for waste.
  • This is where most owners experience high financial leakage.
  • We can retrospectively calculate how much material has been used.
  • We can accurately calculate how much cement is needed for the correct design strength of concrete columns, beams and slabs.
  • We can also accurately calculate how much sand and aggregate is required.
  • We can retrospectively collect concrete samples to scientifically verify the proportions of cement-sand-aggregate that have been used in a concrete mixture or cast.
  • We can calculate the amount of steel rods required for columns, beams and slabs.

Price verification

  • We recruit independent agents on the ground to verify that the price and quality of material that the builder tells you are correct.
  • You are particularly vulnerable to having financial leakage here if you are not based in the country, city, or region where your project site is located.

Build process supervision and inspection

Ensuring that the right techniques and accuracy are used during the build process is extremely important to the structural integrity and safety of a structure.  Using the best material is a prerequisite but does not guarantee quality.  The best quality material used poorly, haphazardly, and without skill will result in a poorly constructed and unsafe structure.

Hence, having a proper supervision and verification regime is key to a successful and regret-free outcome.

  • We can provide daily supervision via video, photos and on the ground to ensure that the builder uses the right techniques and dimensions to meet the intended design and structural integrity.
  • We will pay attention to detail. (Remember the raison d’etre of many teams is to keep you as far away from the details as possible)
  • We will catch mistakes early and insist for them to be corrected early.
  • We can help your builder define a process plan that will greatly enhance their efficiency, without compromising on the quality.

Structural calculations

  • We will verify the structural calculations on your building design.
  • It is very important to ensure that such key calculations, that determine whether your building will be structurally safe, are independently verified by a qualified expert engineer.

Safety investigations

  • When an adverse event (“accident”) happens, there is usually a lot of speculations as to what the causes are.
  • Our experts are methodical and scientific in their analysis when carrying out an investigation to determine the real causes and circumstances that led to an event.
  • We will present an authoritative, clear and easy to understand report stating the analysis and findings of our investigations.

Health and safety assessment

  • We can provide a thorough assessment of, and advice on, the Health and Safety aspects of your construction project, workspace and home.

Expert witness & expert reporting

  • We can do analysis and prepare reports to support your disputes in construction projects.
  • We can provide expert witness services to support your legal challenges.
How We Help

Innovative Engineering Solutions Tailored To Your Vision

From initial structural feasibility studies to final project delivery, our expert consultants provide the technical precision your project deserves.

  • Customized Service Packages
  • End-to-End Technical Support
  • Expert Engineering Consultancy
  • Quality-Driven Project Execution

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