Consulting solutions, tailored to client's brief.
Critical Design Solutions offer specialist civil/structural engineering consulting services to meet the clients needs.
We offer professional chartered civil and structural engineering solutions to consultants and contractors. We design, check and detail structures so they are safe, buildable and fit for purpose throughout their design life.
Every scheme is delivered to the Eurocodes, British Standards and relevant codes of practice.
We can assist with the following:
- Designs: preliminary and detail designs
- Reports: feasibility and option selection reports
- Approvals in Principle
- Conceptual Design Statements
- Design Risk Assessments
- Buildings
- Bridges
- Station platforms
- Culverts
- Retaining walls
- Roofs
- Portal frames
- Cable route containment
- Substations
- Foundations
Core services
Structural Calculations & Reports
Full design calculations and clear, well-documented reports to support planning, building control and third-party review.
Structural Designs, Checks & Analyses
Primary design and independent checking, from first-principles analysis through to Category 2 and 3 design checks.
Structural Drawings & Detailing
General arrangement drawings and reinforcement / connection detailing ready for fabrication and construction.
Temporary Works
Design of propping, formwork, falsework and other temporary works to keep sites safe and buildable.
Drainage Design
Foul and surface-water drainage design coordinated with the wider civil and structural scheme.
Foundation Design
Shallow and piled foundation solutions matched to ground conditions and the loads above.
Extra design and checking capacity for consultancies
Commercial consultancies
Medium to large specialist and multi-disciplinary engineering consultancies delivering to end clients such as Transport for London, Network Rail, National Highways and local authorities.
Residential consultancies
Small to medium, predominantly residential structural engineering practices needing extra design and checking capacity.
A tailored approach, delivered exactly to the brief
- Tailored to the brief
- Every commission is scoped to deliver exactly what the client needs — no more, no less.
- Experienced
- Chartered engineering judgement applied across buildings, bridges and infrastructure.
- Agile & responsive
- A lean setup means quick turnarounds and direct access to the engineer doing the work.
- Designed to code
- Work delivered to the Eurocodes, British Standards and relevant codes of practice.
Have a scheme that needs designing or checking?
Tell us what you have in mind and we'll come back to you to discuss scope, programme and fee.