AL-SHAMAA · ENGINEERING SERVICES AND CONSULTANCY
AL-Shamaa turns structural designs into drawings a site crew can build from: reinforcement shop drawings, coordinated BIM models and design support, for plain footings and raked columns alike.
We do reinforcement detailing, BIM modelling and structural design. The detailing covers plain slabs and footings as well as curved walls and raked columns. Some packages we model fully in 3D and some we draft in 2D, depending on what the project and the site team need.
We also do design work: structural analysis, and support structures for solar panels. In both kinds of work the aim is to find clashes and buildability problems on the drawing, where they are cheap to fix, and not on site, where they hold up a pour.
Our vision: a construction industry where the drawings are right the first time, and no site stops work because a bar doesn't fit.
Every drawing follows the project's own standards and is checked before it leaves the office, so nobody on site has to ring us to ask what it means.
Reinforcement shop drawings prepared for each project, fully dimensioned and drawn with the steel fixers in mind.
Building Information Models built to real construction geometry, so clashes get sorted out in the model and not on the slab.
Analysis and design for structures and solar panel supports, sized for the loads they will see and the way a contractor will build them.
Detailing is the point where someone has to decide exactly where every bar goes. We use it to settle the vague parts of the design before they turn into a delay, a variation, or a crowded bar zone nobody can place.
Some projects want every bar modelled in 3D. Others need quick, clean 2D sheets that fit the way the site already works. We do both, and we pick whichever keeps the programme on track.
Curved walls, transfer structures, sloping slabs and congested nodes, all detailed so the steel fits.
We catch clashes and buildability problems in the model or at the check, before they cost programme time.
We draw to your project specification, your client's templates and the codes the job is designed to.
Tight bar arrangements and accurate schedules cut down on offcuts and rework. We also design support structures for solar plants.
The same team handles your package from the first model to the final issue, so you never have to explain the job again to someone new.
Every reinforcement package follows the same five steps, and the checking happens throughout, not only at the end.
We go through the consultant's drawings, specification and standards, agree whether the package will be modelled in BIM or drafted in 2D, and send over technical queries early.
We model the reinforcement in 3D or draft it in 2D to the agreed conventions, one element at a time, and generate the schedules from the same source.
We check the rebar against embeds, openings, services and adjacent pours, and sort out congestion and clashes before anything is issued.
Someone who did not draw the package checks its geometry, laps, covers, bar marks and schedules before it leaves the office.
We stay on through construction to answer RFIs, issue revisions and update the as-builts, so the drawings still match what is on site.
One reinforcement package where every column is raked, and one solar plant where the wind rather than the weight decides the steel. Both are on the work page in full, with the drawing sheets and the analysis.
Damour · Chouf, Lebanon
A private villa development where the structure is the architecture: raked reinforced-concrete columns carry the upper floor and the cantilevered roof, so almost nothing about the reinforcement repeats. We modelled the ground-floor-to-first-floor columns in full 3D, worked out the bar arrangement where each inclined shaft lands, and issued a coordinated set of elevations, plans and bar bending schedules.
Bekaa, Lebanon
A ground-mounted PV plant on an exposed ridge, where the panels weigh almost nothing and the wind decides the structure. We set out the array, ran the support tables through a wind simulation, designed the bolted base connections and their anchors against the uplift that came out of it, and sized the spread footings that hold the whole thing down.
Reinforcement detailing and design support for most kinds of building and civil structure. If yours isn't listed here, send it over anyway.
Cores, slabs, shear walls and podium transfers.
Frames, basements and long-span floor systems.
Retaining walls, culverts, abutments and decks.
Foundations, pits, machine bases and plant structures.
Panel support systems, ballast and pile foundations.
Curved, sloping and irregular forms modelled in 3D.
Share a specification, a set of consultant drawings or just a scope outline. We'll come back with the delivery method, programme and a clear price for the package.
