Civil Engineering

Economic, innovative yet practical solutions

Smart Alliances have the professional expertise and support teams to provide clients with economic, innovative yet practical solutions for their civil engineering projects. Their deep experience across the Top of the South, around New Zealand and internationally ensures that they provide clients with work to the highest professional standards. Locally they are immensely knowledgeable about District plans and connected to the people who make and enforce those plans. Adding to that, their extensive experience working with the construction companies means design that works, construction techniques that are practical and economic, and issues are addressed as they arise.

Onsite Wastewater Management Systems - Discharge to Land Permit

When public reticulation is not available Smart Alliances are able to design you an onsite wastewater system or take care of your discharge permit renewal. Council requirements relating to wastewater design are stringent. Smart Alliances have the expertise, including environmental science services, accredited site and soil evaluators and resource management consultants to navigate these requirements to achieve an economic solution to your wastewater disposal.

Soil Testing

Every build starts with a penetrometer soil test (PT) Smart Alliances can take care of all of your soil testing needs and provide relevant reports and advise on the land suitability

Geotechnical Engineering

With the popularity of the Marlborough Sounds continuing to boom, clients are building further and further out into the Sounds on sites previously deemed impossible due to site characteristics such as steep slopes, planning and access requirements. Step sites require special investigation to ensure the proposed development will remain stable and protected.

Smart Alliances coastal engineering team provide highly specialised civil, structural and geotechnical engineering combined with resource planning to address construction near or within the marine environment.

Liquefaction

The Geotechnical Engineering team at Smart Alliances have extensive knowledge and experience relating to liquefaction prone sites.   We regularly carry out assessments for subdivisions and new builds in the Marlborough and Kaikoura areas.  We can also undertake testing and coordinate drilling rigs for Cone Penetrometer Testing (CPT) when required.

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COASTAL ENGINEERING

Legacy of expertise

The Smart Alliances coastal engineering team draws on the legacy of expertise built up over decades by the late industry renowned specialist John Smart. Smart Alliances offers expert advice for planning, impact assessment, design and construction of residential and commercial projects within the coastal environment. These include projects such as coastal protection, boatsheds, slipways, jetties and associated infrastructure, moorings for coastal residential properties as well as commercial activities like aquaculture ventures, fisheries operations, and marina development.

Local and international experience across harbour and coastal engineering

With the popularity of the Marlborough Sounds continuing to boom, clients are building further and further out into the Sounds on sites previously deemed impossible due to site characteristics such as steep slopes, planning and access requirements. Any development taking place in the Marlborough Sounds must take into account its environmental impact on both land and water. As Marlborough Sounds specialists, Smart Alliances provide planning, geotechnical, civil and structural engineering advice for site development and coastal access to strike a balance between development and the environmental impact.

The Smart Alliances team has considerable international experience in coastal engineering meaning that they bring together techniques and materials from different environments to create innovative practical solutions for their clients. They have particular experience working in “The Maldives” where they have been involved in many significant projects including the extraordinary Hilton Hotel Resort and the Addu Linkroad.

STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING

The Smart Alliance team are problem solvers – finding innovative, practical and economic solutions to clients’ structural engineering challenges. Structural engineering is concerned with all aspects of a structure and its stability whether it is a new build, repair, conversion, conservation or earthquake inspection, design and upgrade.  Structural engineering is fundamental to every building project.

Fundamental to structural integrity

Structural engineering is fundamental to the design, stability and safety of structures from residences to multi-story buildings, bridges to jetties. The Smart Alliance team design structures to ensure their stability and structural integrity while adopting innovative, practical and economic construction techniques. They have to consider the site, the shape that the architect wants to create, the materials to be used and factors such as wind loading and earthquakes.

Yet when the building is completed, much of its engineering is hidden out of sight in the foundations, walls, roof and bracing. Engineering has immense influence on the feasibility of a project and site, what constraints the architect needs to work within and the cost of your project. At Smart Alliances the engineering team work hand-in-hand with the resource management and architectural teams to provide innovative, practical, economic engineering design solutions.

Experienced designing many different types of structures

The Smart Alliances team bring their clients the benefits of experience in a wide range of environments from the challenging coastal Marlborough Sounds to alpine locations right through to the tropics. They provide economic solutions for projects from retaining walls, residential beams and bracing schedules to complete engineering designs for complex structures like bridges, large warehouses, wineries, theatres, hospitals, and schools, and working with timber, laminates, steel or concrete, which ever works best and most economically for your particular project. Smart Alliances provide you with engineering solutions from Concept to Completion, design to construction supervision, no matter what your structure or project.