NMSEngineering Service

Structural engineering · Didsbury, Manchester

Every building is a load path.

Structural design and calculations, inspections and surveys, architectural and MEP design, construction management, extensions and renovations — from one office in Didsbury. Part of NMS Groupe.

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Key

  • Load pathridge to footing, line by line
  • In sectionstructure the cut passes through
  • Beyond the cutthe far wall, drawn in elevation
Section through a generic two-storey house, with the load path drawn A cut section through a two-storey house: pitched roof, first floor, walls, a window opening with a lintel, and a strip footing below ground. A rust-coloured chain of arrows runs from the ridge down the roof and the wall to the footing, branching at the floor and at the lintel. Every part is labelled in monospace capitals. SECTION A–A GENERIC TWO-STOREY HOUSE NOT TO SCALE RIDGE EAVES FLOOR LINTEL PAD GROUND LOAD PATH — CONTINUOUS
A generic two-storey house, cut in section. The arrows are a load path, not a survey of any one building.
DrawingSection A–A
OriginNMS Engineering Service Ltd
ScaleNTS
RevA
ISO 9001quality management
ISO 14001environmental management
NMS Groupepart of a Norwegian group
DidsburyManchester — where the office is

01

Seven services, one office.

Seven services, delivered from one office in Didsbury. Three of them have a page to themselves; the rest run through the same team, on the same drawing set.

NOTE 01 · SCOPE

  1. S-01

    Structural design calculations

    Beam and foundation design, steel and reinforced concrete, assessment of existing structures — the numbers a builder and a building control body both need.

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  2. S-02

    Structural inspections and surveys

    A visit, an assessment of what is there, and a report that says what it means and what — if anything — needs doing.

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  3. S-03

    Extensions and renovations

    New openings, removed walls, added floors — carried through from the survey to the construction, with the structure accounted for at every step.

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  4. S-04

    Architectural design

    The layout, the envelope and the drawings that describe them — set beside the structure rather than after it.

  5. S-05

    MEP design

    Mechanical, electrical and plumbing design coordinated with the structure, so services do not arrive after the beams do.

  6. S-06

    Construction management

    Project management, construction management and risk management — programme, quality and cost held against the same drawing set.

  7. S-07

    BIM and 3D

    A model the drawings come out of — coordination and clash checking before anything is ordered or built.

Multidisciplinary design, from concept (RIBA Stage 2) through to construction. Stages named as we describe them on our projects page.

02

The drawing register.

What you end up holding on a typical job, scheduled the way an engineer schedules drawings. These are document types — not a count, and not a promise of any particular scope.

NOTE 02 · ISSUE

Document schedule · types issued on a typical job
RefDocumentFormatIssued
D-01 Calculation packageThe numbers behind the members and the foundations. PDF With the design
D-02 Existing drawingsWhat is there now, measured and drawn. PDF · DWG After the survey
D-03 Proposed drawingsWhat will be there, and how it is to be built. PDF · DWG With the design
D-04 Inspection reportWhat was seen, what it means, what to do next. PDF After the visit
D-05 BIM modelThe model the drawings and the coordination come from. Model file On request
D-06 Revision historyWhat changed between issues, and when. All of the above At every issue

A schedule of document types. What a real package contains depends on the job — no quantities or deliverables are promised here.

A sheet of blue-line structural drawings: sections and axonometrics of towers, halls and frames
Sheet imagery An illustration of the work, not a project set.

03

The work they name.

Our structural design expertise covers sectors rather than a gallery of named schemes. These are the areas we work in — from housing and extensions to aviation, power and rail, offshore structures and the assessment of what is already standing.

NOTE 03 · SECTORS

A sheet of pencil sections and axonometrics: a long-span hall, a tower, framed structures and foundation details
Sketch sheet — an illustration of the work, not a built scheme.

Sectors we design for

  • New housing developments
  • Building extensions
  • Aviation and airport infrastructure
  • Power and train station construction
  • Offshore platform analysis and design
  • Impact analysis
  • Wave-in-deck assessment
  • High-rise building design
  • Seismic and vibration analysis
  • Steel structure design and detailing
  • Reinforced concrete design
  • Foundation design and piling
  • Assessment of existing structures
Projects on nmsengineering.com

04

Part of NMS Groupe.

NMS Engineering Service Ltd is part of NMS Groupe, based in Norway. That is the whole of the claim, and it is a good one.

NOTE 04 · GROUP

NMS Groupe logo: an atom with a globe at its centre, beside the words NMS GROUPE
NMS Groupe, Norway.

05

Send us the drawings.

One phone number, one email address, one office. Tell us what you have and what you are trying to do with it — the first conversation costs nothing.

NOTE 05 · ENQUIRY

Request a quote Email the office

No forms, no pipeline. Ring or write, and you get an engineer.

Where
Didsbury, Manchester
Scope
Structural design · inspections · architectural · MEP · construction management · BIM · extensions
Group
NMS Groupe, Norway