Sydney construction site — formwork decks, scaffold and tower cranes on a Metric temporary works project
Temporary Works Engineering · NSW & QLD

The temporary works that keep your build moving.

Formwork, scaffold, crane bases and lifting — designed and certified by a registered CPEng engineer, across NSW & QLD, fast enough to hold your program.

  • Registered CPEng engineer
  • NSW & QLD
  • Design + certification
  • SafeWork NSW compliant
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One specialist, every temporary structure

Most sites juggle three designers. We cover the lot.

A formwork designer here, a shoring designer there, a lifting engineer for the crane — and nobody owns the interfaces. Metric designs, checks and certifies the whole temporary-works package, so nothing falls between the gaps and your program doesn't wait on three separate sign-offs.

What we design & certify

Engineering for everything temporary on site.

From formwork to cage lifting, we design, independently review and certify every type of temporary works — to the Australian Standards, and to your construction program.

Formwork & falsework

Wall, column, soffit and table formwork and falsework, sized for the pour and certified to AS 3610 — with back-propping and reshoring schedules so lower slabs aren't overloaded.

Scaffold design

Engineered access, cantilever, loaded, hung and tied scaffold — designed and certified for the real loads and the real site, not signed off against a generic handbook.

Crane bases & ground bearing

Crane pads, outrigger and ground-bearing checks and lift studies — the ground proven to carry the crane, signed off before it tracks on.

Lifting, rigging & cage lifting

Lift studies and rigging design — plus our specialty, reinforcement cage lifting for bored piles, diaphragm-wall panels, columns and tanks.

Shoring, propping & excavation

Basement and excavation support, soldier piles, back-propping, needling and underpinning — designed to dig and build safely on tight sites.

Façade retention & heritage propping

Staged propping and façade retention that protects existing and heritage fabric while the structure behind it is rebuilt.

Curved reinforcement cage slung from a mobile crane over a circular tank base — Metric cage-lift design, Gawler East SA Gawler East, SA · Lifting design
Case study · Cage lifting

Reinforcement cage lifting, engineered to the last bar.

For a circular water-tank base in Gawler East, SA, we designed and certified the lift of prefabricated reinforcement cages — curved segments up to 9.2 m craned into position. Every bar, weld and lifting cable was modelled in SpaceGASS, with lift bars and welds detailed to AS 1554.3 / AS 4100.

Crane dynamic factor 1.4, combined factor 1.85, lifts wind-limited to 15 m/s, and ±600 mm lift-point tolerance engineered in — issued as a certified temporary-works lifting package. It's one example of the full temporary-works range we cover, from formwork to façade retention.

Selected temporary works

Real projects, kept safe and moving.

A sample of the temporary works engineering behind builds across NSW, QLD and interstate.

Formwork decks, blue scaffold and tower cranes on a live Sydney high-rise build
Formwork & scaffold · NSW

Live high-rise build, Sydney

Suspended-slab formwork, back-propping and engineered scaffold across an active multi-tower residential site.

Tall diaphragm-wall reinforcement cage lifted vertically by a crawler crane against the Gold Coast skyline
Lifting design · QLD

D-wall cage lift — Affinity, Broadbeach

13.6-tonne D-wall reinforcement cages picked vertically on a Gold Coast basement — spreader beam, lift bars and welds certified to AS 1554.3.

Diaphragm-wall cage and piling rig with mobile cranes on a Broadbeach tower site
Craneage & lifting · QLD

Cage picks — Affinity, Broadbeach

Straight, corner and closer cages engineered for the pick — centre of gravity computed and rigging specified before the crane arrives.

Trusted on the jobs that can't get it wrong

Temporary works across NSW & QLD.

Reinforcement cage lifting — Gawler East surface tank, SA
Lifting design
Diaphragm-wall cage lifting — Affinity, Broadbeach QLD
Lifting design
Sydney Metro — Western Sydney Airport
Temporary works
Bridge formwork support — Warringah Freeway Upgrade
Formwork design
Fuel-line shoring support — Sydney Airport
Shoring design
Tunnel propping — Orchard Hills
Propping design
Western Harbour Tunnel facility, Emu Plains
Temporary works
372–382 Pitt Street, Sydney CBD
Temporary works
500+
Projects delivered
across NSW & QLD
CPEng
Chartered & NER
registered engineers
Tier 1
Contractors & builders
we work with
What happens next

From scope to certified design — fast.

Step 01

Send your scope

Upload drawings, a method statement or a sketch and tell us the stage and deadline.

Step 02

Engineer review

A temporary works engineer reviews the works and confirms scope, standards and program.

Step 03

Fixed-fee proposal

You get a clear written scope, fee and turnaround — no obligation.

Step 04

Design & certify

On approval we design, document and certify, ready for the principal contractor.

Live site with a tight program? Call 0404 344 027 — we work to construction timeframes.

Got temporary works to sign off?

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