We have a wide range of skills:
Business development
Our expertise is based on recent experience in:
- Building a new design team of + 40 bridge designers in an office abroad;
- Finding right people, with right skills and matching their competencies with the project requirements;
- Developing new business areas on the verge of the mainstream subjects, such as parametric design and modelling in three-dimensional application for tunnelling;
- Developing new skills in niche areas, such as FEM / CAD software knowledge and utilization for parametric design and modelling of bridges and tunnels;
- Automation of design processes, programming for efficiency.
Project management
- Time, budget, quality assurance;
- Resources, skills, capability;
- Risk and change management;
- International and intercultural issues;
- Communication across cultures and boundaries.
Construction management
- Project economy:
- Establish and follow up construction budget / calculation;
- Implement forecasts and periodic reports;
- Prepare invoice documentation;
- Change management, discrepancies identification and additional work management.
- Execution:
- Planning of activities, construction sequence;
- Preparing, follow up, and adjusting of time and activity schedules;
- Staffing, resources;
- Leading, and distributing the work;
- Managing subcontractors and consultants;
- Preliminary inspections before final inspections, quality assurance.
Contractor's support
- Structural engineer's competence during the implementation phase;
- Liaison, communication;
- Follow up on building site;
- As-built drawings.
Design and maintenance of bridges and other structures
- Design, sizing, bearing capacity investigations and classification of bridge and structures;
- Bearing capacity assessment with regards to existing condition (see more under Inspection);
- Repair measures;
- Strengthening of structures (Analysis of strengthening alternatives with preparation of design calculations and drawings);
- Reconstruction, dismantling, demobilization of structures;
- Finite element modelling and analysis (FEM);
- Dynamic Modal Analysis of Footbridges, Seismic Analysis of Bridges and Foundation;
- Bridge bearing arrangements for large bridge structures with complex geometry (optimization of bridge bearing orientation and position);
- Production of structural calculations and drawings;
- Concrete bridges (reinforced and prestressed structures);
- Steel and composite bridges;
- Road and railway bridges;
- Pedestrian and bicycle bridges;
- Concrete tunnels (cut-and-cover);
- Temporary bridges;
- Design, analysis, and planning of bridge launching (construction stages);
- Design, analysis, and planning for bridge bearing replacement;
- Temporary measures, sheet piling, stamping, temporary bridge supports, pile walls;
- Foundation: pile and slab foundation;
- Retaining walls;
- Check and Review of documents.
Inspection of bridges and other structures
- Road and railway bridges;
- Tunnels;
- Investigations;
- Special inspection;
- Condition assessment;
- Damage investigation;
- Bearing capacity investigation (bearing capacity calculation, classification);
- Material testing:
- Non-destructive samples, e.g., cover measurement;
- Window examinations;
- Concrete cores (collaboration with Lab where we perform all concrete analyses);
- Chloride samples;
- Carbonation samples.
- Bridge management (BaTMan).
International Projects
- Competence in international norms, codes, and standards (e.g., Swedish Codes and Standards, Eurocodes, British Standards, Polish Standards, Canadian Standards, Quebec Standards);
- Cooperation with engineers around the globe;
- Cultural dimensions.
Expertise in FEM / CAD
- FEM - Sofistik, Midas, Strand7, Lusas, Brigade, Ansys, GSA Oasys;
- CAD - AutoCAD, MicroStation;
- MS Office (incl. MS Project, and VBA);
- Programming, parameter-controlled design and modelling (Python, Grasshopper).