As engineers, we love developing structures that enable architectural visions to materialise, and developing more efficient, more resilient, and more sustainable ways of building.
Our team have specialist expertise in Passive House structures with advanced thermal performance, and Alpine structures with complex environmental and buildability constraints.
Expertise
Commercial Buildings
KUSCH partners closely with architects and builders, delivering personalized structural solutions to transform our clients’ architectural visions into reality. KUSCH’s capability includes structural engineering of commercial buildings to ensure safety, functionality, and alignment with the diverse needs of businesses and occupants.
Industrial Buildings
Industrial buildings must be designed to accommodate the required loading due to wind, seismic and snow actions. Loading applied by the business operations within the building must also be considered. These loads may arise from gantry cranes and services within the building
Residential Buildings
KUSCH collaborates closely with architects and builders, offering tailored structural solutions to realise our clients’ architectural visions. These are how we deliver our structural projects: Dedication to client satisfaction and long-term relationships beyond project completion. Adaptable design solutions that accommodate diverse architectural styles.
Structural Engineering for Passive House Design
Passive House is a design standard that achieves thermal comfort with minimal heating and cooling. It achieves this by targeting the following design elements: Insulation, Airtightness, Appropriate window and door design, Ventilation systems with heat recovery, Thermal bridges
Playgrounds & Sculptures
KUSCH engineer artists’ dreams, and look after the maths, so imagination and creativity can inspire another generation.
Bridges
KUSCH engineer vehicle and pedestrian bridges for durability and economy. We also have experience designing prefabricated bridges to be installed in remote areas, often lifted in placed via helicopter.
Cloud 9 Redevelopment
Structural design of restaurant and lift terminal development at the summit of Falls Creek ski resort
Clover Power Station Upgrade, Kiewa Valley
AGL’s $50 million modernisation program of Clover Power Station set out to install new turbines, generators, and inlet valves, extending the station’s operational life and increasing its performance. The engineering challenge was significant: retrofitting modern equipment into a reinforced concrete structure built before current codes existed.
Eagle Chairlift, Falls Creek
Third-party verification of design loads (snow, wind & ice) and primary structural elements on the lift towers for Leitner-Poma, the US-based chairlift supplier.
Residential Buildings
KUSCH collaborates closely with architects and builders, offering tailored structural solutions to realise our clients’ architectural visions. These are how we deliver our structural projects: Dedication to client satisfaction and long-term relationships beyond project completion.
Playgrounds & Sculptures
Eddy, as in “an eddy of water” is the brainchild of Ben Gilbert at Agency of Sculpture. KUSCH provided the Engineering advice to keep this playful structure floating safely mid-air.
Kings Park Pavilion
Scope: Structural design of a public events pavilion over a capped landfill site.
