Structural EngineersFind challenging and fulfilling careers at Cornell Engineers.
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Our staff are our greatest asset. As a team we overcome problems, come up with great ideas and translate difficult, complex issues into solvable, easy to execute plans.
For our graduate engineers, we develop careers with hands-on learning, a mix of site work and office work and monitoring from senior, experienced engineers all under the purvey of our director. We think graduate engineers learn more by doing and trying than they can in a classroom or by watching so all learning is full-on. You won’t be hidden in a back room at Cornell Engineers.
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So take some time to learn about us. Have a look at our blog and our social media accounts. Read our reviews on Google and see for yourself.
A career at Cornell Engineers will grow your brand, make you a better engineer and you’ll love our clients and solving important jobs.
When you’re ready, let’s have a chat about you and what we can do to grow your value as a structural drafter, a graduate structural engineer or an experienced structural engineer.
What do structural engineers do? Structural engineers are civil engineers that specialise in the design, documentation, maintenance and repair of structures. They design, check and certify structures such as buildings, bridges and tunnels.
Residential structural engineers specialise in the design, documentation and maintenance of residential structures such as houses, units, granny flats, motels, hostels and hotels.
I have employed and worked with some amazing young graduate engineers. When we look for graduate structural engineers to employ at Cornell Engineers we use the standard job search pages that you already know about, ie Seek and Indeed.
Join Cornell Engineer’s structural engineer, Jed Maybury, for an introduction to MP1.4 Building Over or Near Relevant Infrastructure in Queensland.
MP1.4 is the rule book for engineers for designing buildings over sewer pipes in Queensland.
MP1.4 specifies rules for how close footings can be to sewer pipes, stormwater pipes, gas pipes, Telstra pipes, NBN cables and other underground pipes.
For example when building near a council sewer pipe, the footings have to be clear of the manholes, clear of the sewer connection point (the location your house connects to the sewer) and clear of the sewer pipe itself.
Here are the Powerpoint slides for you to click along with.
Connect with Jed Maybury on LinkedIn.
Grab your copy of MP1.4 from HPW
To find out more about why we have rules for building over sewers, check out this Youtube video about building over sewers.
If you are planning a house extension, renovation or a new home in Brisbane and are building close to or over a sewer, get Cornell Engineers to help. Contact Us today.
What does an engineers’ office look like? Maybe you’re studying engineering and wondering. Maybe you’re at high school and considering career options.
Good morning to all the structural engineers in the world. Here’s a message for you: Don’t forget to Follow the Load Path!
A load path is the chain of structural elements that a load follows to get to the foundations which is normally where the assessment of load path stops.
For example, the load path of a person standing on the upstairs floor of a double-storey house is something like this:
Each item of load takes a load and transfers it to the next structural element.
This is the work of a structural engineer.
When the load path is determined for each structural element being loaded and each of the structural elements is designed to take the load and pass it on through the chain – that when the structure has been appropriately designed.
The structural engineer does not have to get it right – well they do but let me explain.
When a structural engineer gets the design of the load path wrong, to a certain extent the structure will still work – it just won’t work the way the structural engineer intended.
So the load will travel through a structural element, the element will deflect and move until the load is transferred and then the new load-path will be established.
That movement. That deflection. That’s the unintended consequence of the load path not being designed appropriately.
Of course, if the structural engineer gets it really wrong, that movement works towards collapse.
Follow the load path, Luke. Design the structure properly and check that it will act the way you intend. Design each element in the load path for the load in, the span and the load out.
Structures do not get designed by computers. They get designed by smart structural engineers who follow the load path.