Structural Engineering Services

For owners and developers of large, complex physical assets, it’s crucial that structures are engineered to be pragmatic, purposeful, and above all, safe.

Our team is here to help your project meet the highest standards for safety, sustainability, and flexibility. We offer services at every stage of a project’s lifecycle – from helping you assess feasibility and design your project, guiding through regulatory safety process such as COMAH all the way through to implementation, construction, and demolition.

We can help your team bring your site to life through a range of Front-End Feasibility services, including:

• Front-End Engineering Design (FEED), planning and designing a project or development
• Surveying existing structures, offering a holistic view of what’s achievable to help your business make strategic and informed decisions
• Sympathetic assessments, considering historical and architectural structures are preserved
• Structural Integrity Analysis and Finite Element Analysis, ensuring your structure is fit for purpose at every level
• Defect Mapping, assessing challenges and mapping a maintenance plan
• Load Path Reviews, analysing how loads are transferred through a structure to ensure safety and stability
• Occupied Building Risk Assessments, evaluating hazards and safety concerns within a build that’s in use to ensure occupant safety and regulatory compliance
• Pre-Demolition Structural Appraisals, determining the safest and most efficient demolition approach

Arthian can help your team refine and develop a project through our Design and Development services, including:

• Structural steelwork and Reinforced concrete, ensuring the design, fabrication and installation of steel components to improve strength and durability
• Blast-resistant buildings, designing specialist structures to withstand blast overpressures, protect occupants and maintain operational efficiency, including:
  • Control Rooms & Substations with peak safety and efficiency as subject matter experts
  • Office & Welfare Facilities, designing and analysing buildings that support office spaces and welfare amenities, ensuring safety and functionality alongside regulatory and environmental standards
• Workshops & Stores, designing and analysing structures for workshops and storage spaces, focussing on load bearing capacity, safety and functionality to accommodate equipment, inventory and high-traffic areas
• Detailed design, refining and finalising technical specifications and plans for construction
• Bridge Assessment and Design services, including culverts and road bridge design, assessments and strengthening
• Piperacks and Gantries, designing supporting structures for piping systems and infrastructure distribution
• Plant Support Structures, designing supporting structures for process plant systems including pumps, filters, process columns, heat exchangers, etc.
• Access Structures, designing for safe access, egress and for functional operational requirements of equipment within industrial facilities
• Retaining Walls and Foundations, designing foundations for buildings, utilising a range of bespoke and proprietary systems such as reinforced concrete, gabion baskets, masonry etc.
• Materials testing specification, assessing the quality, strength and suitability for specific structural applications ensuring compliance

Our service is cradle-to-grave, allowing our professionals to help at every stage of the structural engineering journey. Our team offers a range of construction services, including:

• SER certified (in Scotland) – ensuring safety, quality and performance
• Demolition, reverse engineering projects for optimal outcomes in a holistic, safe way that looks to the future
• Temporary works design, planning and designing temporary structures such as scaffolding and shoring to ensure safety and stability during construction or maintenance activities
• Development of lifting strategies, planning and designing safe and efficient methods for lifting and moving heavy loads on construction sites, considering factors such as load capacity, equipment and safety protocols
• Pre-weakening advice, offering guidance on safely reducing the strength of a structure before demolition or after modification, controlling collapse and minimising risk

Structural Engineering and Control of Major Accident Hazards (COMAH)
Arthian’s team of structural engineering experts have a special focus on Control of Major Accident Hazards (COMAH) regulations. We provide structural assessments, design and solutions for facilities handling hazardous materials, ensuring safety and compliance with regulations.

Our team creates blast-resistant designs and secondary and tertiary containment systems (bunds) to reduce risk and protect people and the environment. Read more about how Arthian can help with your COMAH requirements here.

Blast Design
We have extensive experience in helping clients design, retrofit and refurbish blast-resistant buildings. The buildings we work on are pragmatic, purposeful, and functional – just like your business. Read more about our blast design service here.

Building Structures
Whether you’re looking for a secure and efficient Control Room or Substation, a safe environment in an Office and Welfare Facility, or a robust structural design for a Workshop & Store, our team is committed to helping your business achieve its goals. Read more about our building structures service here.

Demolition
Arthian provides a comprehensive demolition service, using an integrated approach to asset clearance to remove risk and incorporate Inherently Safer Design.

Design & Assessments
We offer a range of structural design and assessment services to our clients – ranging from the design of new assets to the assessment of existing assets, including:

• Surveying Existing Structures
• Materials Testing Specification
• Sympathetic Assessments
• Finite Element Analysis
• Defect Mapping
• Load Path Reviews

Bridge Assessment & Design
Bridges play a crucial role in infrastructure, providing essential transport links, supporting industrial operations. Our structural engineering expertise spans private site bridges, road bridges, culverts and overspanning solutions, ensuring safe and durable crossings for a variety of environments. Our services extend to pipe bridge assessments, where we analyse dynamic loads, thermal expansion and environmental impacts to ensure reliable and efficient design solutions.

SER Certification
We offer SER Certification, (Structural Engineering Registration) ensuring all projects meet safety standards and comply with building regulations in Scotland.