Why are structural designers in demand nowadays? For residential buildings, tallest buildings, large span bridges, dams, roads, industries, and many more, Structural designers play a vital role in keeping the safety and durability of the structure. For different scales of projects, it may be small or big, structural designers have their way of executing different methods of analysis for different kinds of loads applied to the structure.
Architects design structure with an imagination of constructing an iconic or unique structure. Structural designers give life to these structures by doing analyze and design. So, while hiring a structural designer for a particular project it has been kept in mind that the type of project and experience of the structural designer makes a huge difference in the result which will be discussed later in the article.
“Good building comes from good people and all problems are solved by Good Design”- Stephen Gardiner, blog.miragestudio7.com
If you are building a residence for yourself, you need an architect to plan the house. Architects are very imaginative people who create designs that sometimes seem like they practically cannot be built on site. So, you have to hire a structural designer who can analyze the design given by the architect and provide you the structural details to make it happen.
7 Steps to understand before hiring a structural designer
- Education of the structural designers matters a lot. If he is having specialization in Structural Engineering then only he can be considered.
- Practicing Structural Designers who are in constant touch with a particular type of project are to be hired for a particular job. Don’t hire a bridge structural designer to design your home building.
- Expertise: Year of Experience in structural design providing constant design support in a particular field. If the Structural Designer is providing constant support to design School Buildings, he will be very much knowledgeable in that particular field. So, he will give his best in the Structural Design of schools apart from other structures.
- Flexibility of structural designers with Architects is most important to make the project happen as imagined by the Architect. If Structural Designer is very rigid there may be chances of not getting the final product as expected or imagined.
- User Reviews of the particular Structural Designer will give you more ideas to take a final call on hiring him for different reasons.
- Timing – Before hiring a Structural Designer, get more information about his team and provide expected design drawing on time or you will fall behind in the schedule of the project.
- Coordination of Structural Designer with the Architect and Site Execution team is very much needed to keep the project on schedule.
Based on the above 7 parameters you can Hire a Structural Designer for a Particular Project. If there are any issues in the above points your client will suffer a lot while executing the project. Keeping in mind the Type of Project and satisfying most of the above points you will get the Best Structural designer in the market.
Regarding structural designer professional fees, assume that if the professional charges what the designer is charging can be compared and accepted in the market, there should not be any second thought if that person is eligible for all the above 7 points.
You can hire that particular Structural Designer for your project.
Most of the common people don’t know that Structural Designers work as an Orthopedic Doctor to analyze and suggest design details to keep the structure work safely and durable for a long time.
Finally it is very clear how to hire a Structural Designer for your project and reasons for it. It is advisable to hire a Structural Designer whatever may be the size of your project to make it Safe and Economical.
Video source: Smithsonian Channel’s Youtube Video
Very Informative 🙂