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What we do

What we do

Buildings

KBR’s Buildings team provides integrated building engineering services, supporting complex developments across education, health, sports, defence, and transport sectors, as well as housing and precinct planning. Our expert team delivers civil, structural, and building services design – including mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, and fire protection – and is supported by specialist engineering services such as fire safety engineering, protective security and engineering sciences. We also provide industrial building solutions for heavy‑duty facilities and industrial gas extraction.

We work from early planning and concept design through to detailed design, construction support, and independent verification, applying a whole-of-lifecycle approach to support projects at every stage. Our expertise spans technical due diligence, planning approvals support, and engineering audits, with an experienced team of project and program managers to ensure deliver is on time and on budget.

We integrate real-world experience with advanced digital delivery, including 3D modelling, building information modelling (BIM), digital twins, and AR and VR, with ISO 19650 embedded at the core of our project delivery framework.

Civil

  • Stormwater drainage
  • Basement and podium works
  • Building access and levels
  • Service connections and authority interfaces
  • Flood mitigation

Structural

  • Concept and detailed design
  • Reinforced and post‑tensioned concrete structures
  • Steel and composite structures
  • Construction staging and buildability support
  • Alternative sustainable materials consultation
  • Specialty design including vibration and IL 4/5 building design

Building services

  • Mechanical
  • Electrical and communications
  • Lighting
  • Hydraulics
  • Hazardous goods

Engineering Sciences

  • Acoustics, vibration and wind testing
  • Façade engineering
  • Sunlight and pitch health
  • Pollution and air quality testing
  • Sustainability and carbon calculation
  • Computational fluid dynamics
  • Internet of things (IoT) sensors
  • Coding and analytics
  • Blast modelling

Fire Safety Engineering

  • Fire safety strategy reports and drawings
  • Code compliance and performance-based designs
  • Egress analysis and modelling
  • Smoke control analysis and modelling
  • Fire safety studies and risk assessments
  • Regulatory approvals submissions

Protective Security

  • Security risk analysis and planning
  • SCEC consultancy
  • Protective security zone requirements
  • Security technology design and specification
  • Tamper-evident secure construction
  • Secure communications
  • Audio security
  • Emanations security
  • Blast, ballistic, HVM and facility hardening
  • Independent security and SCEC certification