Recommendations for a Structural Engineer - Scottish Borders

[Stewpot]

As per the title - I have been let down by a succession of structural engineers who have turned out to be unwilling or incapable of producing the work needed for the buiding regs. stage of my application.

 

If anybody can recommend one, preferably in and around the Scottish Borders region, I'd be very pleased to hear it.

 

Either reply here, or PM me.

 

Many thanks.

 

[Gus Potter]

1 hour ago, Stewpot said:

As per the title - I have been let down by a succession of structural engineers who have turned out to be unwilling or incapable of producing the work needed for the buiding regs. stage of my application.

 

If anybody can recommend one, preferably in and around the Scottish Borders region, I'd be very pleased to hear it.

Can you provide a bit more info for example:

 

1/ Do you have an "Architect" that is taking the lead on the warrant submission?

 

2/ What are you building / designing? 

 

3/ What is your time progamme / expectation in terms of getting warrant approval? 

 

Borders Council are small, but cover a big area, they don't have a lot of resources compared with South Lanarkshire for example. The key here is to first identify what your issues are. 

 

 

[saveasteading]

2 hours ago, Stewpot said:

unwilling or incapable 

Incapable seems very unlikely. Let us help by telling us more background.. something is putting them off.

Otherwise the unwillingness may continue.

[Stewpot]

Thanks, but I'd rather not over complicate things. I was just wondering if anybody might like to recommend (or, indeed, otherwise) someone thay had experience of, as an alternative to me just pulling names out of the Yellow Pages or Google.

 

PM me if you don't want to name names in public.

[Mr Punter]

@Gus Potter of this forum is a structural engineer.  You could pm him and see what he suggests.  I have not used him but he is based in Scotland.

[saveasteading]

@Gus Potteris very knowledgeable and practical. I use him because I've forgotten so much structural theory.

 

But possibly too far away from you.

 

I can see he has seen this post but hasn't volunteered... because this isn't a marketing space. You could PM.

 

1 hour ago, Stewpot said:

rather not over complicate things.

In that case I can't help further.

 

The market has slowed slightly so there should be capacity. Thus i suspect it is location, budget or something you aren't telling us.

[torre]

14 hours ago, Stewpot said:

unwilling or incapable

 

Have you asked them what about the project makes them unwilling? How have you determined they're incapable?

I'd try and answer those questions before shopping around too much further or burning bridges with anyone already approached.