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If you’re a structural engineer and you’ve just been asked to inspect a suspended concrete slab before it is poured, now is a very good time to go through what you should be looking for. (Please note: a suspended slab inspection should ALWAYS be done in person. Never by FaceTime or from photos!) Here are […]
Cornell Engineers was engaged by Brisbane Builder Rigoli Constructions to design the footings and slab for this massive house at Cedar Creek. With 657m2 of single level slab on ground including 300m2 of verandah, this house is BIG!
Polished concrete can be a durable and attractive floor finish, but it needs to be considered before the slab is designed and poured. Once concrete becomes the finished floor, things that would normally be hidden beneath tiles, carpet or timber become visible. That includes cracks, joints, colour variations, aggregate distribution and imperfections in the concrete […]
So if you’re in the building industry in Australia you’ve probably noticed by now that the sizing and spacing of structural members aren’t exactly metric. I mean, we’re working in millimetres and all but have you noticed we still bow to imperial measurements in nearly all structural framing? Here is how pervasive the imperial system […]
Join senior structural engineer, Matt Cornell from Cornell Engineers, as he checks a set of drawings for a single storey concrete masonry (Besser block) home to be built in a cyclone region. He goes through the process of checking a set of structural engineering drawings with some tips for checking and good construction.
Every week Google sends me a Google Alert for the search term “structural engineer” with the latest news articles featuring our world of structural engineering. Let’s go through the articles together and see what’s happening in our local world of structural engineering. Links are below the video.
Google sends me a weekly alert for the term structural engineering in the news for the week. Here’s my take on the term “structural engineer” in the news this week. I have to say, I’m not super-proud of the number of collapses, evacuations and problems relating to structural engineering this week. Not a very good […]
G’day. This is Matt Cornell from Cornell Engineers. This is a waffle slab inspection that we did a little while ago and I wanted to go through and put some words to it to let you know what we’re looking at during this inspection. So here we go coming in from the front I’ll just […]
A big thank you to Michael from Hanson Heidelberg Cement Group for taking our engineers Jed, Rachel, Ben and David for a tour of the Hanson concrete batching plant at Northgate.
Do you think your house needs underpinning? Is it because your house has cracks in it? Is it because your neighbour had their house underpinned? Is it because you don’t have time and you need your house fixed NOW? Is it because some random salesperson said you do? It’s time to have your house assessed […]
Hi. This is Matt Cornell from Cornell Engineers. This is Barlee Cornell from my place and this is the Cornell Engineers Thursday morning briefing. Today is Anzac Day. We’ve paused to pay our respects to those who have fallen protecting our country we’d like to remember the Anzacs – would like to remember those who’ve […]
Why do industrial concrete pavements cracks and degrade? Join our StructuralWhyFile to find out how to improve your chances of a top-quality industrial concrete slab in Australia.
Cornell Engineers is super-proud to have been the engineers for St Lawrence State School’s Remembrance Day Memorial Wall. Remembrance Day has a special significance in 2018. Sunday, 11 November 2018 marks the 100th anniversary of the Armistice which ended the First World War (1914–18).
Cornell Engineers was proud to provide the structural engineering for this amazing house renovation in Hamilton, Brisbane. Project Team Building designed by MR Design & Drafting Construction by Novo Property Structural Engineering by Cornell Engineers
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