Overview

Established in February 2015 by Alan Pottage, a Chartered Civil Engineer with over 38 years' professional experience, the latter 31 years having been spent in the structural steelwork industry, Acier Steelwork Solutions offers customised structural engineering and value-added software solutions to the construction industry.

Qualifications

B.Sc. - Civil Engineering, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1973-1976)

M.Sc. - Structural Steel Design, Imperial College of Science & Technology, University of London (1983-1984)

D.I.C. - Diploma of Imperial College (1983-1984)

C.Eng. - Chartered Engineer

M.I.C.E. - Member, Institution of Civil Engineers

Experience

Design of hot- and cold-rolled structural steelwork and connections.
Design of multi-storey steelwork structures in UK and India.
Design and testing of composite floor decks.
Specification, testing and analysis of full-scale fire tests with intumescent coatings.
Prescriptive and Performance-based fire engineering.
Specification, testing and analysis of long-span, composite plate girders.
Authoring of customised structural engineering software for long-span composite plate girders.
Authoring of customised structural engineering software for both member design and Performance-Based fire engineering.
Authoring of customised "Plugins" and applications utilising the Tekla Structures^® API.