Steel Connection Design

Steel Connection Design you can trust

Smartbuild Engineering provides professional structural steel connection design services to the UK construction industry, designing steel connections to the latest Eurocode or BS5950 design codes to ensure your projects comply with Building Regulation standards.

Efficient and practical connection design

With over 10 years experience designing steel connections, we provide designs that are practical to fabricate and easy to install allowing you to maximise production and keep your clients happy.

Your steel connection design needs covered

Our Structural Engineers can provide steel connection design services for all your connection needs, including:

Simple shear connection (beam to beam/beam to column)
Moment resisting connection (beam to beam/beam to column)
Splice connections (open and hollow sections) Order Online
Multi-way truss connections (welded or bolted)
Base plate connection design
Web hole (service) openings Order Online
Handrail and balustrade connections
Connections into existing and historical steel, wrought iron or cast iron beams and columns.

We also provide connection design services for connecting members to concrete, masonry and timber, including:

Chemical resin anchor connections (chemfix, Rawl, Hilti etc.)
Expansion anchor connections (Lindibolts, Hilti, Fischer etc.)
Concrete screwbolt connections (Thunderbolts, Excalibur etc.)
Hold-down connections (cast in J-bolts, plate washer anchors etc.)
Bearing spreader plates & padstones

Experience + Latest Technology

Combining hand calculation, 2D design software, advanced 3D finite element software and an in-depth understanding of steel connection behaviour, we provide sensible and efficient steel connection design for simple and complex connections of any geometry.