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Structural Engineering Services in Portugal

Every engineering discipline your Portugal project needs — designed to EN 1993 (Eurocode 3), EN 1090, EN 13445 and delivered with a 3–5 hour working-day overlap plus next-morning deliveries.

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Structural Engineering Services serves clients in Portugal with 60+ engineering services, working to EN 1993 (Eurocode 3), EN 1090, EN 13445, PD 5500, BS 5950 (legacy). Key sectors: Offshore, Energy Transition, Water, Industrial.

Design basis

Codes, standards & units for Portugal

Drawings that arrive in the wrong convention cost days on the shop floor. Here is exactly what we design and draft to for Portugal.

Standard	Discipline	How we apply it
EN 1993 (Eurocode 3)	Structural steel	Steel design with the National Annex and NDPs for the country of build
EN 1090	Execution	Execution class, tolerance and factory production control inputs on drawings
EN 13445	Pressure equipment	Unfired pressure vessel design for PED-scope equipment
PD 5500	Pressure equipment	Vessel design where the client specifies the British route
BS 5950 (legacy)	Structural steel	Assessment and modification of existing pre-Eurocode structures

Units on Portugal jobs

metric

Metric throughout — millimetres on drawings, metres for levels and setting out, kilonewtons and megapascals in the calculations.

What lands in your folder

Native Tekla, STAAD.Pro, CAESAR II and PV-Elite files plus PDF, DWG, DXF, NC1/DSTV and IFC.

Drawing conventions your fabricator expects

Sheets & scales: ISO A0–A3 sheets, 1:50 GAs and 1:10 / 1:25 details
Dimensions: Millimetres, with levels in metres to three decimal places
Steel grades: S235 / S275 / S355 to EN 10025, sub-grade stated per temperature
Bolting: EN 14399 HR/HV property class 8.8 and 10.9, preloaded where specified
Welding: ISO 2553 weld symbols with EN 1090 execution class (EXC2 / EXC3) noted
Projection: First-angle projection, setting-out to the project datum

How we work with you

A working day with your Portugal team

Nothing about this is improvised. Portugal is 5 h 30 m behind our engineering desk (UTC+05:30), so we run a fixed daily rhythm around your working hours in Portugal.

Your day in PortugalOur engineering deskExtended deskShared hours

09:00–17:30

04:00–12:30

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09:00Your morning14:30 here

13:00Your midday18:30 here

17:30Your hand-off23:00 here

Clock positions use standard time for Portugal; daylight saving shifts the band by one hour for part of the year.

Live overlap

3 h 30 m

Shared hours 09:00–12:30, Portugal time

RFI turnaround

< 4 working hours

Answered in the shared window or first thing after it

Review rhythm

Twice weekly

A 30-minute model walkthrough on screen, plus a written progress log

09:00
1. Overnight drop is waiting
Models, drawings and calculation updates produced while Portugal was closed are already in the shared folder when your day starts.
09:00–12:30
2. Live window
Screen-share model walkthroughs, connection decisions and RFI closeout — with the engineer who did the work, not an account manager.
17:30
3. You hand off
Mark up the drawings, raise RFIs and set the next priority before you log off. The queue is picked up at the start of our next shift.
Next 09:00
4. Revisions back
Comments closed, revision clouds in place and the next issue in your folder before the first Portugal meeting of the day.

Sector focus

Industries & project types in Portugal

The work that reaches us from Portugal clusters around four sectors. These are the packages we are asked for most.

Offshore

Sector page

Topsides and marine structures designed for installation loads, not just in-place loads.

Topside modules and deck frames
Jacket and brace detailing
Lifting and seafastening calculations
Offshore skids to API RP 2A

Energy Transition

Sector page

Hydrogen, storage and carbon-capture packages — new equipment, familiar codes, tight programmes.

Hydrogen and biogas skid packages
Battery storage and converter steel
Wind and solar support structures
Carbon-capture equipment design

Water

Sector page

Municipal and industrial water assets combining tankage, access steel and process piping.

API 650 / AWWA tank design
Clarifier bridges and walkways
Treatment-plant piping and isometrics
Filter and dosing skids

Industrial

Sector page

Production and logistics facilities where tonnage economy and erection speed decide the bid.

PEB and heavy industrial sheds
Crane gantries and runway beams
Mezzanines, platforms and stairs
Equipment support structures

Commercial & compliance

Contracting, IP and invoicing for Portugal

Engineering is the easy part of an offshore engagement — the contract, the IP and the invoice are what stall it. Here is how we set those up for Portugal clients.

Fixed-price package

Quote in 24 h · 2–4 milestones

Best for: A defined scope — one building, one skid, one vessel

Lump sum against an agreed drawing and tonnage list. Milestone invoicing, and change orders only for scope you approve in writing.

Rate-based delivery

Weekly reporting · monthly invoice

Best for: Scope that is still moving

Per-drawing, per-tonne or per-hour rates fixed up front, with a weekly burn and progress report so the invoice never surprises you.

Dedicated engineers (ODC)

Monthly per seat · 1-month notice

Best for: A continuous workload across many projects

Named engineers reserved for you each month, working in your folder structure, templates and drawing standards under your team lead.

The paperwork, up front

Working with SES from Portugal

Invoicing currency: EUR or USD, fixed at contract stage
Payment terms: Milestone or monthly invoicing, net 30 days from invoice
Contract vehicle: NDA, then a master services agreement with a priced scope schedule per package
IP & ownership: Models, drawings, calculations and native files transfer to you on final payment
Cross-border paperwork: Tax-residency and invoice documentation supplied for Portugal finance and treaty relief
Insurance: Professional indemnity cover; certificate issued with the proposal on request

Local practice: Deliverables suit EN 1090 factory production control and the CE / UKCA documentation chain, and calculations are issued in a form your checking engineer or notified body can audit line by line.

Confidentiality, IP & data security

Mutual NDA signed before drawings are exchanged — usually inside one working day.
All models, drawings, calculations and native files become your property on final payment.
Project data lives in access-controlled folders; only the named team on your job can open them.
No sub-contracting of your scope to a third party without your written consent.
Every deliverable is produced on genuine licensed software, so your submission chain stays clean.
Transfers over your portal, SharePoint, or our encrypted link — whichever your IT policy allows.

Coverage

Delivered everywhere in Portugal

We work remotely, so there is no travel premium and no gap in coverage between Portugal's industrial centres.

Work is delivered remotely from our engineering office: a 3–5 hour working-day overlap plus next-morning deliveries.
No travel premium, no minimum project size, and the same senior review on every package.

Start a Portugal package All locations

Cities we serve across Portugal

Each has its own page with the same code basis and delivery rhythm.

Lisbon

Neighbouring UK & Europe markets

Same team, same codes — useful when a project crosses a border.

United Kingdom Ireland Germany Netherlands Norway France Italy Spain Belgium Sweden Finland Denmark

Every service we deliver in Portugal

Open a discipline to see the exact scope you need. Each page sets out deliverables, the codes we work to in Portugal and a typical turnaround.

62 services

Steel Structures & Detailing in Portugal

Tekla-based 3D modeling and fabrication-ready steel detailing for every structure type.

Structural Analysis & Design in Portugal

Code-compliant analysis, member design, connection and foundation design.

Piping Design & Stress in Portugal

3D piping, layouts, isometrics and CAESAR II stress analysis for process plants.

Static Equipment Design in Portugal

Mechanical design of pressure vessels, heat exchangers, tanks and stacks.

Skid Package Engineering in Portugal

Complete design of modular skids — vessel, piping, structure and lifting.

Finite Element Analysis in Portugal

Advanced simulation on ANSYS Mechanical Enterprise for critical components.

CAD, BIM & Drafting in Portugal

Detail engineering, BIM modeling and model reviews across all disciplines.

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