Grasso Consulting Engineers
Four decades of structures, a director who does the work himself, and designs that are practical to build. That is what the practice has been built on since 2002.
What we stand for
The basis of the practice is a personalised service, with every client’s project looked after by a director. Jim Grasso is involved from the first planning meeting and stays with the project through construction or demolition.
Our aim is to protect the client’s interests: designs that are practical to build and cost-effective, drawing on a wealth of experience and the latest design software.
Documentation detailed so that accurate information reaches everyone involved in design development and construction. Fewer questions on site, fewer surprises.
More than 30 years of technical advice on the demolition of high-rise buildings, bridges, mining and ancillary structures, with the four major demolition contractors in NSW and Queensland among our regular clients.
Fellow of Engineers Australia, Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng, NER), APEC Engineer, IntPE(Aus), Registered Design Practitioner – Structural (NSW) and Registered Professional Engineer of Queensland.
Why choose Grasso?
For contractors, a demolition engineer who is in the room from the outset. For owners, a structural designer who signs his own drawings.
Involved in planning from the outset with the contractor, assisting with the demolition methodology and approving the structural engineering content of the work method statements.
A director looks after your project from brief to sign-off. The person who inspects the structure is the person who designs the solution.
More than 40 years in structural and civil engineering: towers to 48 storeys, 20-plus bridges, a 75-metre refinery chimney and hundreds of homes.
Registered Design Practitioner – Structural (NSW) for regulated designs, and RPEQ for work in Queensland.
Track record
40+
years in structural and civil engineering
30+
years advising on the demolition of high-rise buildings and bridges
50+
major buildings and structures taken down with Grasso’s advice
20+
bridges demolished in NSW and Queensland, 2004 to 2023
The Grasso difference
Five things you can expect on every job.
01
Jim has designed buildings since 1982 and advised on demolition since the mid-1990s. Most problems on a site are ones he has seen before.
02
Designs and methodologies are worked out with the people who will build or dismantle the structure, so they can actually be carried out.
03
Drawings, calculations and work method statements that say exactly what is to happen, in what order.
04
Methodology reviewed and the structural content of work method statements approved before work starts; the Shell Clyde refinery chimney came down without incident.
05
A chartered, registered engineer signs the work, and is on the end of the phone when something changes on site.
Accreditation
Chartered and registered to sign structural designs in New South Wales and Queensland.
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