Industrial Structural Engineering
We offer complete structural design solutions for power plants and process industries.
Our structural systems are optimized for strength, safety, and material efficiency using advanced design tools.
Scope Includes:
- Design of boiler structures, TG buildings (PEB/ Conventional), and pipe racks
- Structural analysis using STAAD and TEKLA
- Steel detailing and connection design
- Load calculation and optimization
- Fabrication and erection drawings
Structural Engineering for Power and Process Plants
Industrial structures carry loads that ordinary buildings do not. Boiler structures support equipment that expands and contracts with every thermal cycle. Turbine generator buildings carry crane loads and rotating machinery. Pipe racks carry dead, thermal and seismic load from piping whose design is still developing while the rack is being engineered. In each case the load case is the hard part of the problem, not the member sizing.
Our scope runs the full sequence: load calculation and optimisation, structural analysis in STAAD, steel detailing and connection design in TEKLA, and fabrication and erection drawings. The two halves matter equally. Analysis establishes that the frame carries its loads; detailing converts that into the connection-level information a fabricator can build from without interpretation. Structures that are analysed but not properly detailed get resolved at site, which is the most expensive place to resolve anything.
Connection design is engineered rather than assumed because connections are where force actually transfers. Bolt groups, weld sizes, gusset and base plate detailing determine whether the structure behaves the way the analysis said it would.
Load calculation and optimisation carry a direct commercial consequence as well as a technical one. On an industrial structure, steel tonnage is a substantial share of cost, and members sized against a blanket conservative assumption rather than the loads they genuinely carry add weight across the entire frame.
Structural engineering supports our boiler engineering and piping engineering scopes, and forms part of complete thermal power plant engineering projects. Our recent projects show the structures involved.
Industrial Structural Engineering — Frequently Asked Questions
What does industrial structural engineering cover in a power plant?
Complete structural design solutions for power plants and process industries — boiler structures, turbine generator buildings in either PEB or conventional construction, and pipe racks. The scope runs from load calculation through analysis, steel detailing and connection design to fabrication and erection drawings.
Which software do you use for structural analysis and detailing?
Structural analysis is performed using STAAD, and steel detailing is produced in TEKLA. Analysis establishes that the structure carries its loads; detailing converts that into the connection-level information a fabricator can actually build from.
What is the difference between a PEB and a conventional TG building?
A pre-engineered building uses standardised, factory-produced framing optimised for speed of erection and lower steel weight. A conventional structure is designed member by member and accommodates heavy or irregular loading more readily. The choice is driven by the loads the building must carry, the crane requirements and the construction schedule.
Why are pipe racks treated as a structural engineering item?
Because a pipe rack carries substantial dead, thermal and occasionally seismic load from the piping it supports, and those loads change as the piping design develops. Designing the rack in isolation from the piping stress analysis produces either an overloaded structure or a heavily over-designed one.
What is connection design and why is it engineered separately?
Connection design determines how members are joined — bolt groups, weld sizes, gusset and base plate detailing. Member sizing alone does not make a structure buildable or safe; connections are where forces actually transfer, and they are the most common point of failure when left to be resolved at site.
How is structural steel weight optimised?
Through load calculation and optimisation carried out before detailing, so members are sized against the loads they genuinely carry rather than against a conservative assumption applied across the frame. On an industrial structure, steel tonnage is a direct and substantial cost.