Websites for structural, civil, geotechnical and building services engineers that tell a homeowner, builder or developer which jobs you take on, show the registration their state requires, and collect the plans and reports you need to price the work.
An engineering practice usually hears from two very different clients. A homeowner has been told by council, a certifier or their builder that they need an engineer, and isn't sure what for. A builder, architect or developer knows exactly what they need and wants to know how quickly you can turn it around and sign it off. The same site has to explain the basics to the first without slowing down the second.
Homeowners search for the problem in front of them: a retaining wall, a slab or footing design, taking out a load-bearing wall, a cracked wall, a structural inspection before they buy. Each service you want more of gets a section or page saying what you deliver (drawings, computations, an inspection report or a certificate), what you need from the client and how long it usually takes. Builders and designers get their own section on design, documentation and inspections during construction.
Several states now register engineers. In Queensland, only a registered professional engineer, or someone working under the direct supervision of one who is responsible for the services, may carry out professional engineering services, and only registered engineers may use the titles “registered professional engineer of Queensland” or “RPEQ”. Victoria requires registration to provide professional engineering services in fire safety, civil, structural, electrical and mechanical engineering, with an additional endorsement for work in the building industry. NSW registers professional engineers working on class 2, 3 and 9c buildings, and WA registers structural, fire safety, civil and mechanical building engineers, with registration mandatory from 1 July 2027. We list each engineer's registrations by state, with numbers, so a certifier or client can check them.
Engineers Australia's Chartered credential and its National Engineering Register are separate from state registration, and clients often confuse them. Chartered is an individual credential, so the site says which engineers hold it rather than labelling the whole firm. Each profile gives postnominals exactly as Engineers Australia issues them, the engineer's discipline and a link to their NER listing, which anyone can search by name, area of engineering or location.
The form asks for the site address, what's being built or assessed, who's asking (homeowner, builder, designer or developer), the council or certifier involved and the timeframe. Upload fields take architectural plans, a survey, the soil or site classification report (Class A to P under AS 2870) and photos of any cracking. If you publish typical fees for common jobs, the form can show those ranges, as Simple Engineers' quote form does.
A short write-up for each project: the building type and suburb, the brief, the constraint (reactive clay, a steep block, a wall on the boundary, an old building being altered), what you designed and who you worked with. Builders and architects read these to judge whether you'd suit their next job. Where the client or building is confidential, describe the engineering without naming them.
Larger clients want a capability statement before adding you to a panel: disciplines, the software you design in, sectors you've worked in, insurances held, any certified quality system such as ISO 9001, and key people. We set this out as a web page with the PDF beside it, so it reads properly on a phone and you can paste the link into a tender response.
What a site classification means, when a retaining wall needs engineering, how a structural inspection differs from a building inspection. A handful of plain articles written by your engineers gives homeowners the background before they call, and gives Google more pages to match against their searches. Simple Engineers, our engineering client, has 16 on its site.
Simple Engineers is a structural engineering practice in Adelaide and, so far, the only engineering firm among our clients. It designs retaining walls, concrete slabs and stormwater systems and prepares structural adequacy assessments for homeowners and builders. Under it is a Google review from an accounting firm we built a site for, not an engineering client.
Four service pages explain what the practice designs and assesses, and 16 articles take on the questions homeowners and builders raise. The quote form shows fee ranges and accepts file uploads, so plans and photos arrive with the request, and tap-to-call suits the builders who'd rather ring.
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$399
A sole engineer or two-person practice: the jobs you take on, registrations, areas served and the quote form with uploads, on one page.
Our suggestion for small practices
$899
A home page, a services page covering residential and builder work, and a quote page with the upload form and each engineer's registrations.
$1,499
A page for each main service (retaining walls, footings and slabs, inspections, alterations), projects, your engineers, a capability page and the quote form.
Under each engineer's name on your team or about page, list every registration they hold with the state and number, and add a short line in the footer naming the registrations your engineers hold. In Queensland it's an offence for someone who isn't registered to use the titles “registered professional engineer”, “registered professional engineer of Queensland” or “RPEQ”, so only engineers whose registration is current are described that way. Check your own obligations with the Board of Professional Engineers of Queensland (opens in a new tab) or your state's regulator. When a registration is renewed or added, send us the details: updating an existing page is covered by the $30 monthly hosting.
Yes. We set the file types the form accepts, typically PDF plans, survey and geotechnical reports, and photos, with a size limit and a field for a file-sharing link when a drawing set is too big. Everything arrives together, so you can price the job or ask for what's missing without a round of back-and-forth emails.
Many homeowners want a rough idea before they call, and a typical range for common jobs, such as a retaining wall design or a pre-purchase structural inspection, filters out enquiries that won't suit. Simple Engineers shows fee ranges in its quote form. If your fees depend too heavily on the site, explain what affects the price instead and offer a fixed quote once you've seen the plans.
On the 3-page site, the services page gives each group its own section. On the 8-page site, homeowner services such as retaining walls, slab design and inspections get a page each, and builders and designers get a page on documentation, turnaround and site inspections. Someone searching for one specific job then lands on a page about that job.
A sole engineer can start with the one-page site at $399. For most small practices we'd suggest the 3-page site at $899: home, services, and the quote page with registrations. Firms with several services, a projects portfolio and a capability statement are better on the 8-page site at $1,499. A site that size takes 2–3 weeks once we have your words and photos.
Yes. We're based on Hutt St in Adelaide and work with businesses Australia-wide by phone and email; our current clients are in SA, NSW, VIC and QLD, and Simple Engineers is in Adelaide. If you're registered in more than one state, the site can list the areas you cover in each and the registration that applies there.
Send us your service list, each engineer's registrations and memberships, and a few project photos. We'll quote it and build the full draft, and you pay only once you've approved it.
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