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Structural engineers: reach the builders who need calculations

Every knocked through wall, every steel and every extension over a certain size needs an engineer, and the builder is usually the one asked to find one. They want a practice that will visit, turn calculations round quickly and answer the phone when building control asks a question. A listing here puts you in front of the vetted builders near you at the moment they need that.

List your practice

Listing is by application. We check who you are before anything goes live, and we talk you through what a listing costs before you commit to it.

Why Pinnacle exists

Cowboy builders have cost homeowners their savings and good tradespeople their reputation. Most platforms check the company rather than the person behind it, so the ones who turn up and do the work properly get tarred with the same brush.

Pinnacle vets the individual. Our founder, Graham Nash, has spent 25 years helping families rebuild after they were let down, more than 500 of them, sometimes out of his own pocket. That standard is why tradespeople join, and it is why the businesses listed beside them are checked too.

For you that matters in a practical way: every trade reading your listing has been vetted before they got here, on ID, insurance, qualifications and references, and homeowners running projects on Pinnacle see it too. It is a smaller audience than a directory you can buy your way into, and a considerably better qualified one.

Graham's story

Who you would reach

  • Builders and loft conversion specialists who need beam calculations and a design for an opening or a dormer.
  • Extension specialists with drawings from an architect that need a structural design before they can price the steel.
  • Groundworkers and piling firms who need a foundation design once the ground has been investigated.

How a listing works

Being listed is being findable, not being sold for. Nobody is sent your details without asking for them.

  1. Apply

    Tell us what you supply, where you are and how far you deliver or travel. It takes a few minutes.

  2. We check you

    Your company registration, your trading history and anything you have told us you hold. A person does this, and rings you to go through it: anything you hold that the form has no box for, a licence, a registration, a scheme membership, is told to us on that call. We come back to you either way.

  3. Your listing goes live

    You appear in the directory under the categories you cover, to anyone searching near you.

  4. They ask for your details

    A vetted tradesperson, or a homeowner running a project here, reads your listing and asks for your contact details. That is the point at which you hear from them.

  5. You take it from there

    The conversation is yours. We do not quote for you, take the order, or add anything to what you charge.

What we check

Your company registration and trading history, the services you list and any professional accreditations you hold. Where you tell us you are chartered or a member of an institution, we record it and verify it, because it is the thing the builder and the homeowner will rely on most.

Being checked is the point of the directory. A trade choosing a supplier here knows somebody looked, which is not something they can assume anywhere else, and it is why we would rather list fewer businesses properly than many on trust.

More about our checks

What is coming

We record how many times somebody asked for a listed business's details, because that is the figure that means something rather than how many times a page happened to show you.

We are building a view for suppliers that will show you your own. It is not live yet, and we will tell you when it is rather than counting it as a reason to join today.

Homeowners running projects can search the directory too.

Questions trade suppliers ask

Do I get homeowner projects from Pinnacle?

No. Homeowner projects go to vetted tradespeople, not to suppliers, so nothing is put to you directly. This listing is the directory those builders search, and a homeowner running a project here can find you in it and ask for your details. If you want projects put to you directly, structural engineer is a trade Pinnacle vets, and that is a separate registration on the tradesperson side.

Can I list civil work as well as domestic structural?

Tick the category and let your website carry the detail, because the listing links to it and describes nothing itself. Most enquiries here are domestic openings and extensions, so if that is not your work, make the website say what is.

Who searches for a structural engineer?

Vetted tradespeople, mostly builders and loft specialists pricing work near you that needs a design before it can start, and homeowners whose project needs the same drawings.

How is my listing ordered?

By how near you are to whoever is searching, within the radius you gave on the form. Site visits make distance matter, so choose the radius you will actually drive.

Architects and planners

Ground investigation

Piling

Ready?

Apply, and we will take it from there.

Applying starts the checks. It is not an instant yes, we tell you where you stand either way, and nothing goes live until you have agreed to it.

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