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Structural Engineering Services in Accra

Every engineering discipline your Accra project needs — designed to SANS 10162, EN 1993, AISC 360 and delivered with a 2–4 hour time difference with full-day coordination.

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Structural Engineering Services serves clients in Accra, Ghana with 60+ engineering services, working to SANS 10162, EN 1993, AISC 360, ASME B31.3, API 650. Key sectors: Mining, Oil & Gas, Power, Water.

Design basis

Codes, standards & units for Accra

We set the design basis for Accra work before the first model is built, so the calculation report and the drawings speak the same language as your approval chain.

Standard	Discipline	How we apply it
SANS 10162	Structural steel	Limit-states design of steel structures for local review
EN 1993	Structural steel	Eurocode 3 steel design with the National Annex applicable to the project
AISC 360	Structural steel	Member, connection and stability design for frames, racks and platforms
ASME B31.3	Process piping	Wall thickness, flexibility and CAESAR II stress acceptance
API 650	Storage tanks	Welded tank shells, annular plates, roofs and appurtenances

Units on Accra jobs

metric

Metric throughout — millimetres on drawings, metres for levels and setting out, kilonewtons and megapascals in the calculations.

What lands in your folder

Native Tekla, STAAD.Pro, CAESAR II and PV-Elite files plus PDF, DWG, DXF, NC1/DSTV and IFC.

Drawing conventions your fabricator expects

Sheets & scales: ISO A1 / A3 sheets, 1:50 and 1:100 GAs
Dimensions: Millimetres, with levels in metres to the mine or plant datum
Steel grades: S355JR to EN 10025 or ASTM A572 Gr.50, per the project specification
Bolting: EN 14399 or ASTM F3125 assemblies, HDG for coastal and mine duty
Welding: ISO 2553 or AWS D1.1 weld symbols — whichever the fabricator works to
Projection: First-angle projection with mine grid co-ordinates

How we work with you

A working day with your Accra team

Nothing about this is improvised. Accra is 5 h 30 m behind our engineering desk (UTC+05:30), so we run a fixed daily rhythm around your working hours in Accra.

Your day in AccraOur engineering deskExtended deskShared hours

09:00–17:30

04:00–12:30

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09:00Your morning14:30 here

13:00Your midday18:30 here

17:30Your hand-off23:00 here

Clock positions use standard time for Accra; daylight saving shifts the band by one hour for part of the year.

Live overlap

3 h 30 m

Shared hours 09:00–12:30, Accra time

RFI turnaround

< 4 working hours

Answered in the shared window or first thing after it

Review rhythm

Twice weekly

A 30-minute model walkthrough on screen, plus a written progress log

09:00
1. Overnight drop is waiting
Models, drawings and calculation updates produced while Accra was closed are already in the shared folder when your day starts.
09:00–12:30
2. Live window
Screen-share model walkthroughs, connection decisions and RFI closeout — with the engineer who did the work, not an account manager.
17:30
3. You hand off
Mark up the drawings, raise RFIs and set the next priority before you log off. The queue is picked up at the start of our next shift.
Next 09:00
4. Revisions back
Comments closed, revision clouds in place and the next issue in your folder before the first Accra meeting of the day.

Sector focus

Industries & project types in Accra

Sector experience matters more than hours. Here is where our Accra workload sits and what those packages contain.

Mining

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Heavy, abrasive-duty structures built far from anywhere — so the drawings have to be right first time.

Conveyor galleries and trestles
Transfer towers and chutes
Silos, bins and hoppers
Crusher and mill building steel

Oil & Gas

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Upstream, midstream and downstream packages for operators, EPCs and the fabricators who build for them.

Separator & metering skids
Pipe racks and process structures
B31.3 stress packages
Wellhead and compressor modules

Power

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Thermal, renewable and balance-of-plant structures and piping, from boiler house to switchyard.

Boiler and turbine-hall steelwork
Chimneys, stacks and flue ducts
B31.1 power piping stress
Transmission and substation structures

Water

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Municipal and industrial water assets combining tankage, access steel and process piping.

API 650 / AWWA tank design
Clarifier bridges and walkways
Treatment-plant piping and isometrics
Filter and dosing skids

Commercial & compliance

Contracting, IP and invoicing for Accra, Ghana

Engineering is the easy part of an offshore engagement — the contract, the IP and the invoice are what stall it. Here is how we set those up for Accra, Ghana clients.

Fixed-price package

Quote in 24 h · 2–4 milestones

Best for: A defined scope — one building, one skid, one vessel

Lump sum against an agreed drawing and tonnage list. Milestone invoicing, and change orders only for scope you approve in writing.

Rate-based delivery

Weekly reporting · monthly invoice

Best for: Scope that is still moving

Per-drawing, per-tonne or per-hour rates fixed up front, with a weekly burn and progress report so the invoice never surprises you.

Dedicated engineers (ODC)

Monthly per seat · 1-month notice

Best for: A continuous workload across many projects

Named engineers reserved for you each month, working in your folder structure, templates and drawing standards under your team lead.

The paperwork, up front

Working with SES from Ghana

Invoicing currency: USD by default — other currencies on request
Payment terms: Milestone or monthly invoicing, net 30 days from invoice
Contract vehicle: NDA, then a master services agreement with a priced scope schedule per package
IP & ownership: Models, drawings, calculations and native files transfer to you on final payment
Cross-border paperwork: Tax-residency and invoice documentation supplied for Ghana finance and treaty relief
Insurance: Professional indemnity cover; certificate issued with the proposal on request

Local practice: Packages are structured for EPCM and mine-standard review gates, with documentation third-party inspectors and local fabricators can work from directly.

Confidentiality, IP & data security

Mutual NDA signed before drawings are exchanged — usually inside one working day.
All models, drawings, calculations and native files become your property on final payment.
Project data lives in access-controlled folders; only the named team on your job can open them.
No sub-contracting of your scope to a third party without your written consent.
Every deliverable is produced on genuine licensed software, so your submission chain stays clean.
Transfers over your portal, SharePoint, or our encrypted link — whichever your IT policy allows.

Coverage

Accra and the markets around it

Accra is one of several Ghana markets we support — the same engineers, the same drawing standards, wherever the fabricator sits.

Work is delivered remotely from our engineering office: a 2–4 hour time difference with full-day coordination.
No travel premium, no minimum project size, and the same senior review on every package.

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Accra within Ghana

Accra work is delivered from the same team that covers Ghana.

Ghana (country overview)

Across Africa

Regional peers on the same code basis and delivery model.

South Africa Nigeria Egypt Kenya Angola Mozambique Morocco

Every service we deliver in Accra

Open a discipline to see the exact scope you need. Each page sets out deliverables, the codes we work to in Accra and a typical turnaround.

62 services

Steel Structures & Detailing in Accra

Structural Analysis & Design in Accra

Code-compliant analysis, member design, connection and foundation design.

Piping Design & Stress in Accra

3D piping, layouts, isometrics and CAESAR II stress analysis for process plants.

Static Equipment Design in Accra

Mechanical design of pressure vessels, heat exchangers, tanks and stacks.

Skid Package Engineering in Accra

Complete design of modular skids — vessel, piping, structure and lifting.

Finite Element Analysis in Accra

Advanced simulation on ANSYS Mechanical Enterprise for critical components.

CAD, BIM & Drafting in Accra

Detail engineering, BIM modeling and model reviews across all disciplines.

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