Site Engineering is the technical discipline within civil construction that bridges design plans and physical reality, involving surveying, setting out (marking locations), supervising construction, ensuring quality/safety, managing technical aspects, and solving on-site infrastructure building problems like roads, bridges, or buildings, ensuring alignment with designs, budgets, and timelines.
In most cases, the site engineering teams from Medir Instruments Limited apply technical expertise to oversee project phases, from translating blueprints to ensuring structures meet specifications. Additionally, they also provide specialist support during the construction stage of any size of project, from bespoke one-off commissions through to larger complex schemes.
The Essential Site Engineering Teams Role
Typically, a Bachelor’s in Civil Engineering or a related field, with a diploma major, is very useful to become a qualified site engineer. Leadership, problem-solving, project management, communication, technical proficiency (AutoCAD), and understanding of construction processes are also essential in this engineering field.
Our experienced engineers will work alongside your on-site team to manage subcontractors involved in piling, earthwork, groundwork, and foundations, ensuring construction proceeds on time and on budget. Taking the concept and design of the project, site engineers use their technical knowledge to make it happen in real-time, setting out and locking down guidelines for different trades, which ensures all elements align.
Key Responsibilities:
- Setting Out & Surveying: Accurately transferring design coordinates (levels, positions) onto the ground using tools like total stations and GPS.
- Technical Supervision: Overseeing construction work, ensuring adherence to drawings, specifications, and quality standards. As well as managing technical packages (e.g., structural, mechanical).
- Problem Solving: Providing technical solutions for unexpected issues on-site and ensuring projects stay within budget and schedule.
- Health & Safety: Enforcing site safety regulations and sustainability policies while working on diverse projects: highways, bridges, commercial, residential.
- Reporting & Liaison: Preparing progress reports and logging site activities. As well as communicating with clients, architects, contractors, and other professionals.
Other notable services can include as-built engineering surveys and volume and cut-and-fill calculations. That’s not all. Being on-site and working as part of your team means we can add value by flagging potential problems, averting them, and providing timely solutions to issues that arise along the way.
This service also complements the range of existing surveying services already offered by Survey Solutions and enables us to be involved in every stage of the construction process. We are one of the very few surveying companies that can offer this start-to-finish solution across our service portfolio.
When Is Site Engineering Used?
Available at the construction phase of any project, our team of engineering specialists will work as part of your on-site team, providing expert advice and support to a wide range of principal and sub-contractors, including piling, earthworks, groundworks, and superstructures. By managing the project’s building and survey data, we help to ensure a smooth construction process and are on hand to provide further detailed advice, measurement, and checking when required.
Our Site Engineering teams take the concept and design aspects of the construction project and make it happen on the ground. As part of this service, we ensure that what is being designed is truly feasible once site work commences. Our engineer’s vast experience adds value by continuously looking forward into the project, anticipating any problems that may be on their way, and providing the solutions to stop these from happening.
The beauty of our offer is that it works for all project sizes. Our dedicated team is available across the nation, ranging from individuals setting out for bespoke one-off dwellings through to large civil engineering schemes. We have worked on major project developments with members of our team spending months at a time supporting the construction process.
