A Squared Engineering

Name: A Squared Engineering
Address: Asama Court, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE47YD, GB
Telephone: +441914327388
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At A Squared, we support offshore, renewables, and shipbuilding clients with smart, reliable engineering.

Our team blends deep sector knowledge with practical delivery to help you balance today’s operations with tomorrow’s demands.

21/10/2026

Two weeks today and Brew with a View is back!

Although judging by this photo, we may need to rename it Brew with a View Partially Obscured by A Squared Employees.

Here's a few of the team modelling our company gear and doing a very effective job of blocking the view we keep inviting everyone to come and see.

Fortunately, we promise to move on Wednesday 04/11/2026.

This one is also a little special as it marks one year since A Squared moved into (B)Eagle House, so expect a slight birthday theme!

No presentations. No agenda. No sales pitch.

Just coffee, tea, pastries, good conversation and, assuming we shift this lot, a cracking view across the Tyne.

Wednesday 04/11/2026
09:00 to 11:00
A Squared Engineering, Eagle House, Newcastle Business Park

Drop in for 15 minutes or stay for the morning.

09/10/2026

I made a new friend at STEMFest yesterday.
Quiet chap, excellent posture, clearly an interest in engineering!

Thanks to Craig Huntingdon at RTC Northh for inviting Marie and me along to STEMFest at Vertu Motors Arena, Newcastle.
A fantastic opportunity to see how we can help introduce young people to science, technology, engineering and maths.

Those of us working in engineering have a responsibility to encourage the next generation into our industry. We need to show children what engineers actually do, where their curiosity could take them and the opportunities available right here in the North East.

We’re looking forward to getting involved next year through the STEM Ambassador programme, sharing our work in naval architecture, maritime and offshore engineering. Marie will also be volunteering her expertise in colour blindness in education. STEM subjects often use colour to explain information, give instructions and highlight warnings, from graphs and diagrams to practical experiments. When colour is the only way that information is communicated, some children can miss something essential. Adding clear labels, symbols or patterns alongside colour can help remove those barriers. We want children to have every opportunity to learn, take part and discover a field they love.

Thanks to everyone helping make STEMFest happen. We’re looking forward to playing our part next year

07/10/2026

Yesterday, Marie Difolco and I had the opportunity to visit some of the research facilities at University of Sunderland to see first-hand what Panagiotis Karagiannidis and his team are doing around advanced materials.

What struck us most was how quickly the conversation moved from “interesting research” to “where could this solve a real engineering problem?”

For us, that naturally meant maritime and offshore. We discussed potential applications around structural monitoring, sensor technology, reducing installation complexity and specialist coatings.

Some ideas will undoubtedly prove more practical than others and the economics matter just as much as the technology. But that is exactly where collaboration between academia and industry becomes valuable. Researchers understand what the technology can do. Industry understands the problems that actually need solving. The interesting bit is where those two meet.

We came away with lots of ideas to explore and I suspect this will not be our last conversation. Thanks again for taking the time to show us around, Panos. A fascinating morning.

06/10/2026

Less than 24 hours to go until our first Brew with a View!

Duncan appears to be on lookout duty already.
We’d like to think he’s eagerly awaiting tomorrow’s visitors.
In reality, he’s probably calculating how many pastry crumbs might hit the floor between 09:00 and 11:00.

Either way, tomorrow is the day.

Brew with a View
Wednesday 07/10/2026
09:00 to 11:00
A Squared Engineering, Eagle House, Newcastle Business Park

No presentations. No agenda. No sales pitch.
Just coffee, tea, pastries, good conversation and a chance to enjoy the view across the Tyne with us. Drop in for 15 minutes, stay for the morning, meet a few familiar faces and hopefully some new ones too.

Duncan will be ready.
Mostly for the pastries.

05/10/2026

The new A Squared caps have arrived!

I tried one on.
My Ops Manager took one look at me and decided Duncan should be the model instead.
I’m slightly miffed because, annoyingly, he does suit it better.

Anyway, this is your quick reminder that our first Brew with a View is this Wednesday, 07/10/2026, from 09:00 to 11:00 at Eagle House, Newcastle Business Park.
No presentations. No agenda. No sales pitch.
Just coffee, tea, pastries, good conversation and a view across the Tyne.

And - the first person through the door wins an A Squared cap.
(Duncan not included)!

02/10/2026

Ear worm anyone?

By railway? Fine.
By road? Absolutely.
Aeroplane? Bit excessive, but we’re not judging.
Caravan? If you must.
Sailboat? Now we’re talking.
Windsurf? You’ll certainly make an entrance.
And judging by what we can see from the office, paddleboard and rowing boat are apparently perfectly viable options too.

However you choose to do it, get here if you can.

Next Wednesday, 07/10/2026, is our very first Brew with a View at A Squared Engineering.

No presentations. No formal networking agenda. No sales pitch.
Just coffee, tea, pastries, conversation and a chance to enjoy the view across the Tyne. Drop in for 15 minutes or stay for the morning:
09:00 to 11:00 at Eagle House, Newcastle Business Park.

If anyone actually arrives by paddleboard, I think they’ve earned two pastries.

Bonus points if you can name the singer whose song has now been firmly lodged in my head all morning.

30/09/2026

One week to go until our first Brew with a View!

And yes, this really is the view from the office.

Next Wednesday, 07/10/2026, we’re opening the doors at A Squared Engineering between 09:00 and 11:00 for the first of our monthly Brew with a View mornings.
The idea is still very simple: coffee, tea, pastries, a good view over the Tyne and a chance to catch up with people.
No presentations, no formal agenda and no sales pitch.
Drop in for 15 minutes, stay for an hour, or spend the whole morning with us. We’re hoping to see a mixture of clients, suppliers, friends and plenty of familiar and new faces.

We’re incredibly lucky to have this view every day, so once a month we thought we’d share it!

Brew with a View
Wednesday 07/10/2026
09:00 to 11:00
A Squared Engineering, Eagle House, Newcastle Business Park

f you’re around, come and have a brew with us.

27/09/2026

The Bar Stool Briefings:
Rearranging the Deckchairs on the Titanic

An old favourite, because engineering still keeps doing it.

Sometimes we put enormous amounts of effort into improving the appearance of something while avoiding the actual problem. Polish the drawing. Reformat the report. Rename the folders. Move the work packages around. Create another spreadsheet. Have another meeting.

Meanwhile, the fundamental engineering problem is still sitting there waving at everybody.

If the load path doesn’t work, beautiful drawings won’t fix it. If the concept is fundamentally flawed, another revision of the presentation won’t rescue it. If we are solving the wrong problem, doing it more efficiently isn’t progress.

Rearranging the deckchairs didn’t stop the Titanic sinking.

Every now and again it’s worth stepping back and asking: Are we actually solving the problem, or are we just making it look prettier?

26/09/2026

The Bar Stool Briefings:
Pretty colours don’t make it right

Finite Element Analysis can produce some absolutely beautiful pictures.

That doesn’t mean the answer is right.

FEA is incredibly powerful. It is also perfectly capable of calculating complete nonsense to several decimal places if you ask it the wrong question.

Bad boundary conditions, wrong loads, poor connections, inappropriate elements, an unrealistic mesh, or a structural model that bears little resemblance to how the real thing actually behaves. The solver doesn’t know any of that. It just solves the model you gave it.

So before getting excited about the stress plot, ask a few basic questions. Do the reactions balance? Does the deformation look believable? Does the load actually have somewhere to go? Can I sanity-check the result another way?

The clever bit of FEA isn’t pressing Solve. It’s understanding whether the answer deserves to be believed.

25/09/2026

The Bar Stool Briefings:
Don’t take it personally. Take it seriously.

Someone has covered your drawing in comments. Your calculation has come back covered in red. The checker has questioned something you were absolutely certain was right.

Good! That's what checking is for!

If somebody finds a genuine mistake before the work reaches fabrication, installation or operations, they haven’t attacked you. They’ve just done you a favour.

But there’s another side to this. Checking should add engineering value. It isn’t an opportunity to rewrite somebody else’s work in your preferred style, move tables around because you like them somewhere else, or spend an hour debating a semicolon.

Challenge the calculation. Challenge the assumptions. Challenge the standards, load cases, interfaces and conclusions. If something is wrong or unclear, fix it. If it's simply not how you would have done it, think twice before reaching for the red pen.

Good checking reduces risk. It shouldn’t create noise.

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Asama Court
Newcastle Upon Tyne
NE47YD

Telephone

+441914327388

Website

http://www.asquaredengineering.com/

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