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Enquiry
You describe the project, ideally with a design, a floor plan or a hand sketch.
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Section A-A Structural design
Structural engineering and design for Wegberg
The structural engineer for Wegberg, from subsoil to ridge
We calculate new builds, extensions and conversions in Wegberg and the Heinsberg district. Verified so an inspecting engineer can follow it, and ready in time for your building application.
RRoof and roof structure
FFloor slab
WWall and lintel
GGround slab
SFoundation and subsoil
- Service
- Structural design, calculations, applications
- Area
- Wegberg and the Heinsberg district
- Office
- Wassenberg, Heinsberg district
- Answer
- A call back after your enquiry
01Build up
A section through your project
A structure can be read from the top down. Every layer passes its load to the next, and every layer has a verification of its own.
- Roof and roof structure
- Rafters, purlins, collar beams and bracing. We calculate snow and wind for your location and set out the timber and its connections.
- Floor slab
- Reinforced concrete, lattice girder or timber joist floor. We size span, reinforcement and deflection and issue the reinforcement as drawings.
- Wall, lintel and bracing
- Masonry, reinforced concrete or timber. We verify buckling lengths, lintels over openings and the bracing of the whole house.
- Ground slab
- A reinforced slab or strip footings with a base. We set thickness, reinforcement and load distribution and match them to the subsoil.
- Foundation and subsoil
- Founding depth, permissible bearing pressure and settlement. Where a soil report exists we calculate with it, otherwise we tell you when one is needed.
Snow and wind
Reinforcement and deflection
Lintel and bracing
Load distribution
Bearing pressure
NoteA first design or even a sketch already tells us which layers your project touches.
02Services
What the office does
The office plans and calculates in building construction and structural engineering. These services can be commissioned singly or together.
- Design
- Design of detached and apartment buildings, from the first sketch to the construction drawings.
- Building application
- Preparation of building application documents, submitted under the authorisation held for North Rhine-Westphalia.
- Structural calculations
- Checkable structural calculations and construction drawings, including formwork and reinforcement drawings.
- Thermal performance
- Thermal performance calculations and the issuing of energy performance certificates for your building.
- Structural engineering
- Design and calculation in structural engineering, including special structures.
- Site supervision and site management
- Site supervision in building construction and structural engineering, and site management on request.
- Finite elements
- Finite element calculations and dynamic simulations for components that call for a closer look.
- Surveys and tenders
- Surveying and digitising existing buildings, and tender documents for building and structural work.
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NoteYou only need part of this. Tell us what is coming up and you will get a scope that fits it.
03Documents
What ends up on the table
The structural work is only finished when the building authority, the inspecting engineer and the shell contractor can all work with it. These are the documents that go out.
- Structural calculation
- The full verification of structural stability, position by position, prepared so it can be checked.
- Position plan
- The drawing that shows every calculated position where it sits in the building.
- Formwork and reinforcement drawings
- The construction drawings for the shell contractor, with dimensions, positions and reinforcement.
- Steel and material schedules
- The schedules used to order reinforcement and beams and to place them on site.
- Thermal performance certificate
- The calculated verification for the building envelope, matched to the building application.
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PDF and paper
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PDF and DWG
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PDF and DWG
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PDF and schedule
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NoteIf the inspecting engineer comes back with a question, we settle it with them directly.
04How it runs
How a commission runs
From the first message to the release on site, these are usually the steps.
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Assessment
We tell you which verifications are needed and name the scope and the fee.
Office
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Documents
You supply drawings, subsoil information and, if there are any, records of the existing building.
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Calculation
We calculate the structure through and settle open points against the design.
Office
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Issue
You receive the calculation, the position plan and the construction drawings for submission.
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On site
We stay reachable for questions during construction, and come out to site if you want.
Together
NoteIf the design changes along the way, say so early. A change on the drawing is cheaper than a change in the shell.
05Existing
Building in an existing fabric
In an existing building the old records are often missing. Then the first job is to measure and record, and only after that to calculate.
Take a wall out and you change the path the load used to take.
- Surveying on site and digitising the existing building
- Establishing which walls carry load and which do not
- Verification for openings, lintels and propping
- Extensions and added storeys with an eye on the existing foundations
06Office
The office
Ingenieurbüro Konrad Smoczynski is a young planning office in the Heinsberg district. It works together with freelance staff, partners and building firms from North Rhine-Westphalia.
What is mostly designed and structurally conceived here are detached and apartment buildings. The office can also take on site management or site supervision, and it works in structural engineering as well.
Wassenberg and Wegberg both lie in the Heinsberg district, so a meeting on site is not something that needs long discussion.
How we work
- Stay reachable while the building goes up
- Calculate what can actually be built
- Settle the checking engineer questions ourselves
- Say early when something does not work out
- Master of Science RWTH, civil engineering
- 2012
- Chamber of Engineers NRW, voluntary member since 2017
- Membership number 730097
- Qualified structural design engineer since 2019
- Authorisation number QT1542
- Building application authorisation NRW since 2019
- Authorisation number V3693
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07Site work
From the sites
Photographs from the project work of the office, from the shell to the finished floor slab.
NotePhotographs from completed and current projects of the office. They show the work, not a particular offer.
08Area
Wegberg and around it
This page is made for Wegberg. From the office in Wassenberg the villages along the Schwalm are within everyday reach.
Places in the service area
- Wegberg
- Beeck
- Klinkum
- Merbeck
- Rickelrath
- Uevekoven
- Wildenrath
- Arsbeck
- Dalheim-Rödgen
- Rath-Anhoven
- Tüschenbroich
- Holtum
- Moorshoven
- Wassenberg
- Erkelenz
- Hückelhoven
- Schwalmtal
- Niederkrüchten
- Location of this site
- Wegberg
- District
- Kreis Heinsberg
Projects further away are taken on as well, where the journey fits the scope.
NoteName the location of the project in your enquiry. How often a site visit makes sense follows from that.
09Questions
Common questions
What people usually ask before a first enquiry.
When do I actually need a structural engineer?
Whenever loads are redistributed: a new build, an extension, an added storey, the removal of a load bearing wall and an opening cut for a larger doorway or window.
What do you need from me to begin?
A design or floor plan, the intended build up of floor and roof and, if you have one, a soil report. A clean hand sketch with dimensions is enough to start.
Do you submit the building application yourselves?
Yes. The office holds the authorisation to submit building applications in North Rhine-Westphalia and prepares the documents.
What does the structural work for a house cost?
That depends on size, number of storeys and construction. You get a statement of scope and fee before you commission anything, with no surprise afterwards.
How long does a structural calculation take?
That follows from the scope and the current workload. Name your deadline in the enquiry and you will get an honest answer on whether it can be met.
Do you also take on site supervision?
Yes, in building construction and in structural engineering. Site management as well, on request.
We have no old drawings. Is that a problem?
No. The existing building is then surveyed and digitised on site, and the calculation builds on that.
Do you work together with our architect?
Yes. Design and structure are coordinated so that the construction fits the design rather than the other way round.
10Enquiry
Your enquiry
Describe briefly what is to be built or changed. You will get a first assessment and a statement of scope.
- Telephone
- +49 2432 907 93 00
- info@ks-ingenieur.de
- Office address
- Leichweg 3, 41849 Wassenberg
- Main site
- ks-ingenieur.de
This helps us at first glance
- Location and type of project
- Design, floor plan or sketch
- Intended build up of floor and roof
- Soil report, if one exists
- Your deadline for the documents