Postma Consultants are structural engineering consultants based on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland. Staffed by a highly experienced Registered Professional Engineer of Queensland (RPEQ), Postma Consultants offer a wide variety of services to builders including professional structural engineering for:
- New homes
- Home extensions
- Architecturally designed homes on steep slopes, high wind rating designs and cantilever roof structures.
- Carports
- Retaining walls
- Home alterations, including:
- Removal of bracing walls
- Removal of load-bearing walls
- Enlarging or addition of openings including adding lintels and beams to support existing floors, walls and roof structures.
- Rock walls
- Slope protection
- Slope stability
- Pools
- Residential shed designs, including:
- Small off the shelf sheds (Slab design only)
- Larger residential sheds (Steel portal framed structures)
- Shed conversion from Class 10a to Class 1a liveable sheds requiring Forms 15 & 16
Postma Consultants have extensive experience with using different building materials and systems for residential projects, including:
- Timber framing
- Steel framing
- Concrete slabs and wall columns
- Masonry block work
- Aluminium
- Cold formed steel frames
- Hebel blocks
- Rammed earth walls
Site Inspections & Construction Support
Postma Consultants also offers site inspections and construction support for builders. We provide a direct communication line with the designing engineer to collaboratively solve any challenges that might occur during construction and to achieve cost and time savings.