Treehouse – Community Hospital

SSA Company Value – Give Back SSA would like to share a project with you where we donated our time to help solve an engineering conundrum at a community hospital. The care facility in Haslemere, Surrey looks after a number of patients, some of whom are former professional sports people. The last place they want […]

Staircase in Hackney

SSA are always happy to help! For this project, we were provided with a set of drawings by the project’s steel fabricator Mundy Steel. SSA delivered a quick turnaround – checking the design of proposed staircase and connections, and produced the calculation package for our client’s submission to building control. SSA Structural Engineer – Matthew […]

Captain Marvel – Madame Tussauds

Continuing our work with FBFX we were asked to assist with the design of three models of the latest Marvel superhero: Captain Marvel! These were to be installed in London, Blackpool and New York. There were a few interesting requirements of the design which made it challenging. The first of these was that the sculpture […]

Superman – Madame Tussauds

A Superman sculpture was being created at the same time as the Batman sculpture so we were asked to take a look. This consisted of a steel frame with human-like joints which allowed the sculpture could move up and down like Superman. The final installation would have a model of Superman lifting a helicopter with […]

Batman – Madame Tussauds

FBFX, a company who produce highly detailed costumes for the film industry, contacted us to assist them with two 3D models they were creating for Madame Tussauds. Contrary to popular belief, these models were not being constructed out of wax, but instead were made as a fibreglass shell, with a partial steel ‘skeleton’ inside. We […]

A Vierendeel Girder – Beaconsfield

The Brief: To create a two-storey building on the main high street of Beaconsfield. The existing site was a car park for the neighbouring Interior Designer’s. The proposed ground floor was to be used as a shop, and the first floor as a separate residential flat. The Constraints: Access had to be retained for a […]