Moment Engineering

About

Moment Engineering is a Melbourne-based structural engineering consultancy serving needs of businesses and individuals interested in getting quality, economical and effective structural design solutions. Our technical expertise having been built over many years of practical experience let us successfully deal with developments of any complexity levels, whether it is a multi storey apartment building, sophisticated retail property or a family home in suburban area.

Moment Engineering delivers wide range of structural consultancy services for a variety of clients in terms of structural analysis and design with subsequent preparation of design documentation.

We are working in four principal directions:

•as direct structural consultants for our clients;

•being involved with other engineering consultancies as sub-contractors in order to help keeping up with their contract obligations in structural design area;

•delivering engineering services to building contractors, property developers, architects in terms of responsibility for structural design and construction site inspections;

•providing third-party reviews of structural design works performed by others.

We are registered with Building Commission for providing engineering advice in Victoria with full necessary certification of compliance for our work.

All our services are covered by the appropriate professional indemnity insurance package.

We are working on all structural aspects of large and small building projects including and not limited to the following:

•building structural analysis for all types of loading in accordance with Australian building standards’ requirements;

•geotechnical analysis, structural design and detailing of foundations, slabs-on-ground, retaining walls, shoring systems;

•design and detailing of reinforced concrete, pre-stressed or post-tensioned structural elements (columns, walls, beams, suspended slabs, etc);

•steel framing elements and connections detailing of any complexity;

•precast concrete structures including tilt-up panels, connection detailing;

•masonry, timber and cold-formed steel framing structures including those for low-rise residential and similar developments.

Among a wide range of buildings and facilities we are specialised on, there are the following examples of our expertise:

•low-rise and multi storey residential and commercial properties;

•extensions and renovations;

•light industry developments including warehouses, sheds, etc;

•retail properties;

•car parks;

•hospitals, schools and other public developments.

We are well experienced and confident users of the following software packages being widely used in our work:

•RAPT

•RAM CONCEPT

•ETABS

•MICROSTRAN

•AUTOCAD

List of Australian Standards used for structural designworks undertaken by Moment Engineering:

AS/NZS 1170.0 Structural design actions. General principles

AS/NZS 1170.1 Structural design actions. Permanent, imposed and other actions

AS/NZS 1170.2 Structural design actions. Wind actions

AS/NZS 1170.3 Structural design actions. Snow and ice actions

AS 1170.4 Structural design actions. Earthquake actions in Australia

AS 1684.1 Residential timber-framed construction. Design criteria

AS 1684.2 Residential timber-framed construction. Non-cyclonic areas

AS 1720.1 Timber structures. Design methods

AS 1720.2 Timber structures. Timber properties

AS 2327.1 Composite structures. Simply supported beams

AS 2870 Residential slabs and footings. Construction

AS 3600 Concrete structures

AS 3700 Masonry structures

AS 3735 Concrete structures retaining liquids

AS 4100 Steel structures

AS/NZS 4600 Cold-formed steel structures

AS/NZS 4673 Cold-formed stainless steel structures

AS 4678 Earth-retaining structures