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Plain guidance on structural engineering for homeowners, architects and contractors.
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Everything we have published.
Notes on structural engineering practice, written for people who have to act on them.
- Do I need a structural engineer to remove a wall?
- What are structural calculations and when do you need them?
- Cracks in walls: when to worry
- Structural engineer or surveyor: which do you need?
- How long do structural calculations take?
- What Building Control actually asks for
- Subsidence or settlement: how to tell the difference
- Do I need a structural engineer for a loft conversion?
- Steel or timber: choosing the right beam
- What a structural survey covers, and what it does not
- Can my roof take solar panels?
- CDM designer duties: what contractors need from an engineer
- Collateral warranties: what they are and why they matter
- When underpinning is the answer, and when it is not
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All work →Real structures, surveyed and engineered.
Sport and recreationCharlton Athletic FC, The ValleyTwo steel monopitch stand roofs rising to 27 metres were assessed for a proposed solar PV installation. Both were cleared to carry the arrays as they stand, and the fragile roofs were surveyed entirely by drone with nobody working at height.
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