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Structural Engineering Services in Lagos
Every engineering discipline your Lagos 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 Lagos, Nigeria 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 Lagos
Drawings that arrive in the wrong convention cost days on the shop floor. Here is exactly what we design and draft to for Lagos.
| 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 Lagos 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 Lagos team
Nothing about this is improvised. Lagos is 4 h 30 m behind our engineering desk (UTC+05:30), so we run a fixed daily rhythm around your working hours in Lagos.
Clock positions use standard time for Lagos; daylight saving shifts the band by one hour for part of the year.
4 h 30 m
Shared hours 09:00–13:30, Lagos time
Same working day
Raised and closed inside one working day
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 Lagos was closed are already in the shared folder when your day starts.
09:00–13:30
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 Lagos meeting of the day.
Sector focus
Industries & project types in Lagos
Sector experience matters more than hours. Here is where our Lagos workload sits and what those packages contain.
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
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 Lagos, Nigeria
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 Lagos, Nigeria clients.
Fixed-price package
Quote in 24 h · 2–4 milestonesBest 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 invoiceBest 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 noticeBest 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 Nigeria
- 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 Nigeria 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
Lagos and the markets around it
Lagos is one of several Nigeria 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.
Lagos within Nigeria
We support the same disciplines in every Nigeria market below.
Across Africa
Regional peers on the same code basis and delivery model.
Directory
Every service we deliver in Lagos
Open a discipline to see the exact scope you need. Each page sets out deliverables, the codes we work to in Lagos and a typical turnaround.
62 services
Steel Structures & Detailing in Lagos
20
Tekla-based 3D modeling and fabrication-ready steel detailing for every structure type.
- Steel Detailing Services in Lagos
- Structural Steel Detailing in Lagos
- Tekla 3D Modeling in Lagos
- Fabrication & Shop Drawings in Lagos
- Steel Erection Drawings in Lagos
- BOQ & Material Take-off in Lagos
- Pre-Engineered Building (PEB) Design in Lagos
- Industrial Building Design in Lagos
- Commercial Building Steel Design in Lagos
- Pipe Rack Design in Lagos
- Equipment Support Structures in Lagos
- Offshore Platform Structures in Lagos
- Transmission Tower Design in Lagos
- Communication Tower Design in Lagos
- Steel Staircase & Handrail Design in Lagos
- Factory Shed Design in Lagos
- Storage Tank Dome Roof Design in Lagos
- Long-Span Roof Structures in Lagos
- Process Plant Structures in Lagos
- Loading Ramps & Industrial Platforms in Lagos
Structural Analysis & Design in Lagos
8
Code-compliant analysis, member design, connection and foundation design.
Piping Design & Stress in Lagos
10
3D piping, layouts, isometrics and CAESAR II stress analysis for process plants.
- Piping Design Services in Lagos
- Pipe Stress Analysis in Lagos
- CAESAR II Stress Analysis in Lagos
- CADWorx 3D Piping Modeling in Lagos
- Piping Isometric Drawings in Lagos
- Piping Layout & Routing in Lagos
- Pipe Support Design in Lagos
- Piping Thickness Calculation in Lagos
- Valve Datasheets & Piping BOM in Lagos
- Piping Spool Fabrication Drawings in Lagos
Static Equipment Design in Lagos
10
Mechanical design of pressure vessels, heat exchangers, tanks and stacks.
- Pressure Vessel Design in Lagos
- PV-Elite Vessel Design in Lagos
- ASME Section VIII Design in Lagos
- Heat Exchanger Mechanical Design in Lagos
- Storage Tank Design (API 650) in Lagos
- Silo, Bin & Hopper Design in Lagos
- Chimney & Stack Design in Lagos
- Reactor & Jacketed Vessel Design in Lagos
- Separator & Scrubber Design in Lagos
- Static Equipment Design in Lagos
Skid Package Engineering in Lagos
4
Complete design of modular skids — vessel, piping, structure and lifting.
Finite Element Analysis in Lagos
5
Advanced simulation on ANSYS Mechanical Enterprise for critical components.
CAD, BIM & Drafting in Lagos
5
Detail engineering, BIM modeling and model reviews across all disciplines.
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