WSP Group – engineering consultants

WSP Africa

Structural design

WSP Structures has more than 40 years’ experience in the design, contract administration and construction supervision of structural engineering services in the private, corporate and public sectors

Structural design

Projects range from corporate head offices, commercial, industrial, leisure and health related projects as well as civil engineering structures.

WSP has extensive experience in structural engineering projects covering high rise buildings, shopping centres, corporate and commercial office developments, industrial structures such as warehouses, distribution centres, crane buildings and factories, sports facilities such as stadia and indoor sport centres. We also have extensive experience in civil engineering structures such as bridges and water reservoirs. Our engineers have the capability to deal both quantitatively and qualitatively, with concepts, designs, procurement and operations of major structural engineering projects.

Our range of specilaist skills includes:

  • Reinforced concrete
  • Post tensioned concrete
  • Composite structures
  • Structural steelwork
  • Structural timber
  • Reinforced and unreinforced brickwork
  • Deep basements and lateral support
  • Raft and piled foundations
  • Heavy and industrial and special foundations
  • Special investigation

The firm’s structural engineering skills encompass the full spectrum from conceptual and feasibility planning, to detail design, construction supervision and construction management. Modern computer aided design techniques and structural modelling packages are used and the firm boasts specialist skills in areas such as complex analysis and design of all aspects in structural engineering.

We have provided our services to many projects, including:

  • High rise buildings
  • Corporate head offices
  • Commercial office buildings
  • Distribution facilities and warehouses
  • Factories and other industrial buildings
  • Shopping centres
  • Leisure and health related facilities
  • Residential developments (including high rise building)
  • Sport stadia and indoor sports facilities
  • Highway bridges (including incremental launching)
  • Water reservoirs and elevated towers
  • Heavy engineering structures
  • Other civil engineering structures
  • Community based building structures

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Contact

Arno Ellmer

Arno Ellmer

Divisional Director
Email
+27 11 361 1522

John Truter

John Truter

Chief Operating Officer
Email
+27 11 300 6011