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We are delighted and proud to be part of the team that won the highest NSW award for architecture for the new viewing platforms at North Head, Manly. Local architects Chrofi, in partnership with First Nations designers Bangawarra, won the Robert Woodward Award in the Small Projects category and NSW Architecture Medallion at the 2024… Read More

We joined with friends and family at the MCA to celebrate 25 years of SDA and to say thank you to our founder Andrew Simpson as he takes a step towards retirement. Marie led the nights arrangements as Andrew took us on a nostalgic journey from the early days of SDA, right through to the… Read More

June 23rd is International Women in Engineering Day. This annual celebration in its 11th year, honours the contributions and outstanding achievements of women engineers. At SDA we celebrated with a morning tea and the women in our team delivered a presentation about their engineering and life experiences here in Australia and overseas. Originating from the… Read More

Recently the team had an evening of dumpling making. Though the finished products varied in sizes and shape, none of that mattered when it came to eating them. They were delicious!

Marie O’Looney, Tatiana and Simran from SDA attended the Engineers Australia – Engineering your Future event at the Powerhouse Museum MAAS. This event is to promote STEM and our future female engineers by mentoring and showing how interesting a career in engineering can be. The students were guided (and guided us!) on the modelling of… Read More

We got a first look, tour of the completed works at Bondi Pavilion with Waverley Council, Buildcorp and TZG Architects. This project was so challenging, interesting and politically sensitive and we have worked on it since 2015. Great to see everyone hard work come to this finale.

SDA does it again, Sydney to the Gong and funds raised for MS Australia. We love this event and from cycling veterans to newbies on wheels the 90km approx. cycle is a great event to participate in. Always.

Getting the right hemisphere of our brains going with some art and creativity! Not a measurement, Australian Standard, kN or practical constraint in sight.

It was a pleasure to get a tour of the Alpha Precast Facility in Sydney with our friends at Chenchow Little Architects. Many thanks to Ludo at Alpha Precast for showing us their preferred details and facilities to help optimise the process and to gather some insight and further our knowledge where we can help… Read More

We had a great presentation today from our Women in Engineering, to help recognise great work, share experiences, stories, discuss our workplace and learn about technical structural issues. Our presenters Kathleen, Dilshad, Tatiana, Miranda and our Associate Director-Marie, gave a detailed presentation on a topic they wanted to discuss. All was shared with the world… Read More

Marrickville Town Hall turns 99 years old this month. We recently had the privilege of doing a full structural measure up, design analysis check and load capacity review of the steel truss roof on this old dame. An interesting moment in the history of steel construction circa 1922. Upon close inspection you can pick that… Read More

We did it again! Proud winners of Bicycle NSW Business Challenge- Love to Ride

As we had not held any ‘real world’ office social event in over 6 months we thought it was about time we did! Zoom quarantini drinks were fun and even the online trivia quiz night we did was great but we decided to hold a ‘Formal Friday’ evening drinks and games night as our office… Read More

We had all of our brainiacs gathered onto one team to compete at the annual Association of Consulting Structural Engineers – Table Quiz. We won! A close nail biter down to the last “Buzzer Round” and in the end we sealed the deal by correctly answering: “In the Navy what does PO stand for?” Not… Read More

We have an average of around 50% cyclists to work everyday, something we are pretty proud of. It makes perfect sense that we take part in the MS Sydney to Wollongong cycle every year and the weather was perfect for us this year. A really enjoyable ride and only one puncture this year out of… Read More

In support of our values of everyday, we downed tools and attended the Climate Strike in Sydney today. While it is great to see such enthusiasm for this most important of issues, we know that it is only action that will help save the planet. To do our little part in this big global problem:… Read More