Infrastructure and transport
Railway infrastructure, bridge design and heavy civil structures, where detailing tolerance and staged construction sequencing carry the risk.
Engineering services
Structural, MEP and BIM services produced by qualified engineers
NOVSTA ES delivers structural design, MEP design, BIM modelling and coordination, and technical office services to contractors, developers and asset owners in Australia, Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
01How we are set up
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Qualified engineers produce the work
Our models and drawings are produced and reviewed by chartered and licensed engineers, including holders of PE (Texas), CPEng, MRICS and MCIOB. Deliverables include an engineering assessment of the design, not geometry alone.
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Issues are referred back to the designer
Where a model exposes a detail that cannot be built as drawn, a tolerance conflict, or an element specified above the load case it serves, we raise it with the designer or engineer of record before the package progresses to detail stage.
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Automation supports delivery volume
We use Revit API, C#, Python and Dynamo workflows to automate repetitive production and to run quality-control checks across the whole model on every issue rather than on a sample.
02The problem we address
The problem we address
Clash detection identifies where two objects occupy the same space. It does not identify whether a reinforcement arrangement can physically be placed, whether a service route leaves adequate tolerance against the structure, whether a connection detail will be accepted by the engineer of record, or whether a section has been specified above the load case it serves.
These are engineering assessments and require an engineer to make them. A model can be fully coordinated and still carry issues of this kind into construction, where they are usually raised as RFIs and settled as variations. Correction at that stage costs more and affects the programme.
Because our modellers are qualified engineers, issues of this kind are identified during modelling and referred back to the designer or engineer of record, in writing and with a proposed resolution, before the package progresses.
03Who we work with
Who we work with
The discipline is the same for both. What it protects is different.
Working with contractors and EPCs
NOVSTA is an engineering-led delivery partner that prevents cost and programme risk before it reaches site, by staffing engineers rather than drafters and embedding commercial control within technical coordination.
You carry the delivery risk on a design issued by others and modelled by others. Where the two do not reconcile on site, the programme absorbs the delay and your commercial position is tested.
A detail that cannot be built as drawn will pass clash detection, because geometrically nothing intersects. It reaches shop drawing stage, then site, and is raised as an RFI. By the time it is resolved the sequence has moved and the entitlement position is harder to establish, because the record does not clearly show when the issue became knowable.
- Engineering review rather than geometric checking
Our modellers are qualified engineers and assess whether the resolution is buildable, not only whether the objects clear each other.
- A written record of what was raised and when
Design queries are issued to the designer or engineer of record, dated and with a proposed resolution. The register serves as a technical output and as a contemporaneous commercial record.
- Value engineering on live packages
Members of the team are designers, so we can propose an alternative arrangement, section or system rather than reporting that a budget has been exceeded.
- Commercial capability on the same team
Through NOVSTA PM, issues identified in coordination can be carried into change control, entitlement and cost forecasting under a single accountability line.
Working with owners, developers and PMOs
NOVSTA integrates engineering assurance and commercial governance into a single delivery function, giving owners a defensible cost and design baseline from concept through operation.
Consultants issue design and contractors issue models and shop drawings. Both parties have a commercial interest in the outcome. You hold the asset for its operational life, certify payment, and account for cost movement to a board, an investment committee or a ministry.
Without independent technical capability reporting to you, those deliverables are accepted largely on trust and questioned only after the cost consequence has been established. Reporting then becomes a reconciliation carried out after the event rather than a control operating before it.
- Design and model assurance
Independent engineering review of consultant and contractor deliverables, covering buildability, coordination integrity, specification and compliance with your information requirements.
- Design baseline establishment
A verified and documented technical baseline at gateway, against which later change is measured rather than absorbed.
- Value engineering at gateway
Where budget pressure exists, our designers develop alternatives that hold design intent, before value is removed reactively during construction.
- Information management and model governance
Information requirements structured to ISO 19650, with model audit and data quality control for handover and operation.
04Services
Services
The technical scope between design intent and construction. Available as discrete packages or as an integrated design-to-delivery function.
01Structural design+
Structural analysis and verification, finite element modelling, formwork and layout drawings, reinforcement detailing, and value engineering of structural solutions. Concrete, steel and precast, including bridge and heavy civil structures.
Analysis and detailing are carried out by the same team, so the detail issued for construction reflects the assumptions in the analysis model rather than a drafted interpretation of them.
Deliverables
- Analysis models and verification reports (MIDAS Gen, SAFE, ETABS)
- Formwork, layout and general arrangement drawings
- Reinforcement detailing and bar bending schedules
- Steel connection detailing and fabrication drawings
- Value engineering options with comparative assessment
02MEP design+
Mechanical, electrical and plumbing design and modelling, calculation-backed sizing and routing, plant room coordination, and MEP shop drawings to installation standard.
Routing decisions are made by the engineers who sized the system, and are coordinated against the structure, access requirements and maintainability as a single exercise.
Deliverables
- Mechanical calculations and system sizing (Dendrit, Linear)
- Coordinated Revit MEP models to the agreed level of information need
- Plant room and riser coordination
- Installation-ready MEP shop drawings
- Builder's work and penetration schedules
03BIM modelling and coordination+
Multi-discipline federated modelling, clash detection and resolution, constructability review, model auditing, and delivery to the client's information requirements and naming standards.
Each coordination decision is recorded with the engineering reasoning behind it, which allows the output to be used later as a change-control record as well as a technical one.
Deliverables
- Federated models (Revit, Navisworks, ACC)
- Clash matrices recording the engineering basis for each resolution
- Constructability and buildability review reports
- Model audit and information quality reports
- Design query registers issued to the designer
04Engineering automation+
Automation of repetitive modelling, detailing and scheduling work, and automated quality control run against the full model on every issue.
This allows a senior engineering team to carry package volumes that would otherwise require a much larger drafting operation, and means checking is exhaustive rather than sampled.
Deliverables
- Workflow automation using Revit API, C#, Python and Dynamo
- Parametric design and option development
- Automated data processing and schedule generation
- Quality-control routines run on every model issue
- Tooling built to the client's standards and templates
05Scan-to-BIM and reality capture+
Drone survey and laser scanning, point cloud registration and processing, conversion to verified as-built models, and deviation analysis against the design.
Deviations are assessed by engineers, so the output states not only where the built condition differs from the design but whether the difference is structurally or functionally significant.
Deliverables
- Registered and processed point clouds
- As-built models to the agreed tolerance and level of information need
- Deviation analysis with engineering assessment
- Progress verification for payment and programme substantiation
- Handover-ready asset information
06Technical office+
Design change management, quantity surveying and take-off, technical reporting and method statements, and quality assurance and compliance monitoring.
Run by engineers with commercial awareness, the technical office produces a contemporaneous record of what changed, when it became knowable and what it cost.
Deliverables
- Design change registers with technical and commercial impact
- Model-based quantity take-off and reconciliation
- Method statements and technical submissions
- Quality assurance and compliance monitoring
07Value engineering+
Structured review of structural and MEP packages to identify cost reduction that holds design intent, functional performance and compliance, delivered as costed options with the trade-offs stated.
Because the team includes designers, options take the form of alternative arrangements, sections, systems or sequences rather than removal of scope.
Deliverables
- Costed option registers by package
- Design intent and performance impact assessment
- Buildability and programme implications of each option
- Recommendation with the engineering basis stated
05How we work
How we work
Most modelling suppliers differ in price and capacity. The differences below concern who carries out the work, what they are able to question, and what happens to what they find. Information delivery is managed in accordance with ISO 19650.
Engineers produce and review every deliverable
We do not operate a drafting floor under engineering supervision. Staffing this way costs more per hour and generally costs less per project.
Findings are issued before the package progresses
Queries are dated, documented and accompanied by a proposed resolution. Modelling around a known problem defers the cost rather than removing it.
Quality control is automated and applied in full
Routines check naming, parameters, geometry integrity and level of information need across the whole model on every issue.
Technical findings connect to commercial control
Through NOVSTA PM, issues identified in coordination can be carried into change control and cost forecasting without a handover between suppliers.
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Scope and information requirements
What is delivered, to what level of information need, against which standards, and what constitutes acceptance.
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Baseline review
We review the information issued to us and report what is missing, contradictory or unbuildable before production begins.
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Engineered production
Modelling and detailing by qualified engineers, with automated quality control on every issue.
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Coordination and design queries
Federated coordination with engineering resolution, and a documented query register returned to the designer.
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Issue and record
Deliverables issued together with a record of what was identified, when, and what was decided.
06Sectors
Sectors
Industrial, energy and resources
Power generation, plant decarbonisation, mining facilities, solar manufacturing and logistics centres, where services and structural coordination is dense.
Healthcare
Hospitals and clinical facilities, where services coordination affects both cost and operational function.
Education and institutional
Schools, universities and academies, including government-linked programmes across the Gulf.
Hospitality and residential
Hotels, resorts, compounds and villas, where finish tolerance leaves limited margin for coordination error.
Heritage and conservation
Conservation projects supported by specialist expertise in heritage conservation and climate-resilient design.
Commercial management and project controls
NOVSTA ES covers design, modelling and engineering. NOVSTA PM, our sister practice, covers project management, commercial management and value management.
Engaged together, an issue identified during coordination can be managed through change control and cost forecasting by the same group, rather than passed between two suppliers.
Visit NOVSTA PM
NOVSTA PM services
- Commercial management
- Contract administration and claims
- Project controls
- Cost management and forecasting
- Value management
- Risk management and performance reporting
07Contact
Contact us
We would be pleased to hear from you. Please get in touch to arrange an initial discussion on how NOVSTA ES can support your project, whether at feasibility, design or delivery stage. Enquiries may be made using the form below, or directly by email or telephone.
EmailInfo@Novstapm.com.au
Phone+61 426 149 527
Webnovstaeng.com