Structural Engineering Consultancy
Principal Engineer
Alex Knowles
MEng CEng MIStructE
Alex has been practicing as a consultant chartered structural engineer for over 30 years. He has helped many clients deliver over 2000 projects. His main areas of expertise are:
- Superstructure
- Foundations and retaining walls
- Precast concrete
- Domestic and commercial structural reports
- Temporary works and site assistance
- Historic structures
Superstructure Design
Over the years Alex has gained experience in:
- Steel design
- Commercial steel frames; portal frames, industrial structures
- Multi-storey structures; sway and braced frames
- Domestic modifications; wind frames and loose beams
- Temporary works; support structures and lifting frames
- Concrete design:
- Multi-storey frames; column and beam or flat slab
- Stability cores
- Slab design
- Masonry design
- Load bearing masonry
- Wind designs
- Tying systems
- Historic masonry building refurbishments
- Domestic alterations
- Timber
- Domestic floors and roofs
- Historic timber trusses
- Timber frame and ply braced structures
Precast Concrete Design
I have over 20 years of experience designing precast concrete elements for precast manufacturers. Designs from initial enquiries, GA drawings, unit and reinforcement drawings along with schedules. Design, resonance, robustness calculations. Lifting, transport and loading calculations for:
- Flat panel construction for prisons, hotels and student accommodation
- Dock pits and front walls for loading bays
- Retaining walls
- Stairs and landings for high rise commercial and educational buildings
- Stadium terraces, lecture halls and cinemas
- Precast framing elements, beams slabs and columns
- Architectural, cladding and insulated panels
Foundation and Retaining Walls
- Piled foundation systems; precast piles CFA and bored piles along with mini and screw piles
- Mass and reinforced pad foundations
- Raft slab and low bearing stress finite element designed thin slabs
- Pile cap and ground beam design and detailing
- Insitu concrete, interlocking masonry and gabion basket retaining wall design
- Foundation design in engineered ground
Other experience
- Report writing
- Domestic surveys
- Structural damage assessments
- School surveys
- Bespoke building design
- Modular
- Sway frames
- Specialist foundations
- Transport forces
- Temporary works design
- Shuttering
- Back propping
- Materials and equipment loading
- Cantidecks, lifting, hoists
- Expert witness
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