ACSES Engineers

ACSES Engineers Structural • Civil • Geotechnical • Management
Building Relationships Beyond Structures

ACSES Engineers is a specialist structural, civil and geotechnical engineering consulting firm with extensive experience in a broad range of project scopes. ACSES Engineers employs professional design & drafting specialists, dedicated to providing cost effective and practical solutions that surpass all expectations, by utilising the latest software, technical expertise and industry ‘know how’ to guarantee a safe and efficient solution every time.

28/05/2026

Three things to look for if you have never hired a structural engineer before, and they are simpler than most people expect.

Over ten years in industry first, because experience compounds in a way no degree can substitute, and second, real construction experience on real sites rather than office-only time spent only behind a screen, and third, empathy for the pressures the architect already carries because the engineer who treats the design as a partnership delivers a building, while the engineer who treats it as a calculation hands over a problem.

Hire the engineer who has stood on the slab.

Building Relationships Beyond Structures

When the shoring strategy reads every adjoining boundary before the column grid above settles, that's when you know the ...
27/05/2026

When the shoring strategy reads every adjoining boundary before the column grid above settles, that's when you know the project's been thought through. That's the part of the job that still matters to me.

Maroubra was an eleven-storey residential frame over four basements on a corridor site, with structural, civil, and geotech all resolved from the same desks. The adjoining neighbours dictated the basement before the architectural envelope did.

AS 1726 first, then the column grid grew from there, with Sydney Water across the civil package.

That's the day the engineering shows itself.

Project: 251-257 Maroubra Road, Maroubra

Building Relationships Beyond Structures

26/05/2026

What still gets me about this job is that we don't really build structures. We build the conditions for someone else to do something they couldn't pull off alone, and then the building stays standing for a century while the community grows around it.

The frame is honestly the easy part. The hard part is the trust, the architect knowing the column grid won't move, the builder reading the documentation without ringing us for clarification, the client never second-guessing a line we drew.

The most important thing we build isn't made of steel or stone.

Building Relationships Beyond Structures

2A-8 Burwood Road, Burwood. The Summit.This was a twelve-storey inner-Sydney mixed-use sat down a tight urban corridor w...
25/05/2026

2A-8 Burwood Road, Burwood. The Summit.

This was a twelve-storey inner-Sydney mixed-use sat down a tight urban corridor where every adjoining property line had a vote on the column grid above, with structural, civil, and geotechnical resolved across the same desks rather than chased through three separate consultants.

We led with the geotechnical model against AS 1726 and grew the structural design from there, with the shoring strategy reading every neighbouring boundary before a single column position was committed, and Sydney Water sitting across the civil package from concept through to certification.

The work speaks for itself.

Building Relationships Beyond Structures

Our project at 206-214 Railway Parade, Kogarah (The Rise).A Sydney mixed-use development, 12 storeys above 3 basement le...
23/05/2026

Our project at 206-214 Railway Parade, Kogarah (The Rise).

A Sydney mixed-use development, 12 storeys above 3 basement levels, requiring full structural, civil, and geotechnical engineering, from concept through certification.

The scope our team delivered:
- Full structural design, foundations to roof
- Post-tensioned and reinforced concrete slab strategies
- Geotechnical investigation and foundation design
- Basement and retention coordinated with neighbouring properties
- Civil and stormwater under Sydney Water and council
- Construction-stage support and progressive certification
- Architect, builder, and certifier coordination from day one

12 storeys above 3 basement levels on a rail corridor in Kogarah, with Sydney Water and Transport for NSW both across the build. Each authority comes with its own technical bar, and the shoring strategy had to respect every adjoining property line below grade.

What stands at 206-214 Railway is a building. What stays is the trust we built getting there.

Building Relationships Beyond Structures

22/05/2026

Engineering is a philosophy. A way of thinking.

We get to stand on the shoulders of every engineer who came before, every code clause refined over a century of practice, and we get to create a solution that can be tested.

ACSES - Building Relationships Beyond Structures

This 13-storey Sydney mixed-use development required structural engineering that respected the architecture, the site, a...
21/05/2026

This 13-storey Sydney mixed-use development required structural engineering that respected the architecture, the site, and the people who would build it.

Our scope across 433-439 Princes Highway, Rockdale (Anew Rockdale):
- Structural design from foundations to roof
- PT and conventional slab options weighed against programme
- Geotechnical investigation reading the actual ground, not assumptions
- Basement and shoring coordinated with surrounding buildings
- Civil and stormwater integrated under council and Sydney Water
- Construction-stage engineering through to certification
- Architect, builder, and certifier coordination throughout

A 13-storey mixed-use frame on a major arterial, with three authorities across the build, Sydney Water, Transport for NSW, and Sydney Metro. The lateral system, slab strategy, and foundation reaction all answered the same loads, held in view at every level of detail.

Solve the structural problem and you have a building. Build the relationships around it and you have a project.

Building Relationships Beyond Structures

20/05/2026

A structural engineer at the planning stage is the best insurance you will ever buy.

When the architect develops a vision and a structural engineer is in the room early, the question of how it gets physically built is asked from the start.

Our project at 7-11 Derby Street, Kogarah.A Sydney mixed-use development, 14 storeys above 4 basement levels, requiring ...
19/05/2026

Our project at 7-11 Derby Street, Kogarah.

A Sydney mixed-use development, 14 storeys above 4 basement levels, requiring full structural, civil, and geotechnical engineering, from concept through certification.

The scope our team delivered:
- Full structural design, foundations to roof
- Post-tensioned and reinforced concrete slab strategies
- Geotechnical investigation and foundation design
- Basement and retention coordinated with neighbouring properties
- Civil and stormwater under Sydney Water and council
- Construction-stage support and progressive certification
- Architect, builder, and certifier coordination from day one

14 storeys above 4 basement levels in Kogarah, with Sydney Water and Transport for NSW both sitting across the build. Each authority comes with its own technical bar, and the shoring strategy had to respect every adjoining property line below grade.

What stands at 7-11 Derby is a building. What stays is the trust we built getting there.

Building Relationships Beyond Structures

18/05/2026

Three things to look for if you have never hired a structural engineer.

Ten years in the industry | Relevant construction experience | Empathy for the design process

Building Relationships Beyond Structures

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Strathfield, NSW
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