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Structural Engineering Services in Ghana

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

Quick answer

Structural Engineering Services serves clients in 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 Ghana

Every package we issue for Ghana is designed, checked and drawn to the standards your reviewers already use — no translation step at your end.

StandardDisciplineHow we apply it
SANS 10162Structural steelLimit-states design of steel structures for local review
EN 1993Structural steelEurocode 3 steel design with the National Annex applicable to the project
AISC 360Structural steelMember, connection and stability design for frames, racks and platforms
ASME B31.3Process pipingWall thickness, flexibility and CAESAR II stress acceptance
API 650Storage tanksWelded tank shells, annular plates, roofs and appurtenances

Units on Ghana 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 Ghana team

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

Your day in GhanaOur 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 Ghana; 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, Ghana 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

  1. 09:00

    1. Overnight drop is waiting

    Models, drawings and calculation updates produced while Ghana was closed are already in the shared folder when your day starts.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. Next 09:00

    4. Revisions back

    Comments closed, revision clouds in place and the next issue in your folder before the first Ghana meeting of the day.

Sector focus

Industries & project types in Ghana

Most Ghana enquiries come from these four sectors — and from the fabricators and EPCs serving them.

01

Mining

Sector page

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
02

Oil & Gas

Sector page

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

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

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 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 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

Delivered everywhere in Ghana

We work remotely, so there is no travel premium and no gap in coverage between Ghana's industrial centres.

  • 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.

Cities we serve across Ghana

Each has its own page with the same code basis and delivery rhythm.

Neighbouring Africa markets

Same team, same codes — useful when a project crosses a border.

Directory

Every service we deliver in Ghana

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

62 services

Steel Structures & Detailing in Ghana

20

Structural Analysis & Design in Ghana

8

Piping Design & Stress in Ghana

10

Static Equipment Design in Ghana

10

Skid Package Engineering in Ghana

4

Finite Element Analysis in Ghana

5

CAD, BIM & Drafting in Ghana

5

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