2025

When people talk about telecoms, they think of 5G, fibre optics, or signal strength. But few outside the industry ever think about the structure holding it all up, or the minds behind it. Every time you use your phone for a call, a video meeting, or sending a message – there’s a telecom tower or rooftop structure making that connection possible.

Behind that structure is a structural engineer, quietly doing the calculations, designing the foundations, and making sure every bolt and bracket can carry the load. You may never see them, but they are the silent force keeping modern communication standing tall – because no matter how fast the technology evolves, the physical structures must remain stable.

The truth is that most people only notice engineering when something goes wrong. But for structural engineers in telecoms, the job is to make sure it never gets to that point – as long as we’re working with the right information. From wind loads on coastal towers to soft ground in challenging areas, we anticipate issues before they become failures.

As telecoms expands into smart cities, denser networks, and nationwide 5G, telecoms structural engineers are playing a bigger role than ever, ensuring that the physical infrastructure can keep up with the digital pace. From tripods to stub towers, we’re designing the platforms that connect communities, power innovation, and close the digital divide.

At KA Engineering Group, we work behind the scenes to design the structures that keep tomorrow’s networks standing– from remote tower bases to rooftop mounts, ensuring strength, safety, and resilience in a fast-moving digital world. Contact our expert team at: info@ka-engroup.com to learn more and discuss how we can best serve your needs.

Modern telecom structures, like cell towers and antennas, are incredibly complex. They are not just steel and concrete, they are dynamic systems built to handle strong winds and house sophisticated equipment. Understanding their detailed designs, predicting how they will behave, and managing them over time is a huge challenge. Visualisation software aims to simplify these tasks for telecom structural engineers.

Traditional methods, like flat 2D drawings, often fall short. There is a certain amount of information lost as they can hide how parts fit together, miss potential issues, and make it hard to see the overall view of design choices. This is where advanced visualisation software step in. They take huge amounts of technical data and turn them into interactive visual models; making complex information clear and actionable.

These tools allow engineers to see accurate 3D models of structures. More importantly, they can overlay crucial data directly onto the visual model. This means seeing where stress points are, how the tower might bend in a storm, or even tracking its maintenance history. This visual context helps engineers quickly spot issues and make better design choices, creating a shared understanding and making it easier for design teams, clients, and construction crews to work together satisfactorily.

Ultimately, clear visualisation directly impacts the entire life of a telecom structure. It leads to more informed designs, faster project approvals, and better management over time. At KA Engineering Group, we leverage advanced visualisation techniques to ensure the integrity, efficiency, and safety of critical telecom infrastructure projects. For further inquiries into how our expertise can benefit your specific needs, please contact us at info@ka-engroup.com.

As solar energy continues to gain traction, more rooftops are being transformed into mini power stations. But beneath every successful solar installation lies a crucial step that often goes unnoticed: structural calculations.

Before a single panel is mounted, it’s essential to understand how the added loads, both dead and live loads will interact with the existing roof structure. Factors like wind uplift, roof slope, and roof material all play a role in ensuring long-term safety and performance.

At KAEG, we’ve recently started working closely with solar installation teams to provide structural assessments tailored to these unique challenges. Whether it’s a residential bungalow or a commercial flat roof, we help verify that the structure can safely support the system—or recommend reinforcements where needed.

It’s an exciting evolution of our work in structural design, and one we’re proud to be a part of. Because in the transition to clean energy, every detail matters, and that includes what’s holding it all up.

For further insights or to discuss your unique project needs, please reach out to our expert team at: info@ka-engroup.com. Together, let us build a future that is not only structurally sound but also truly extraordinary.

The increasing sizes of telecommunication antennas mean increasing load demands on existing towers. In many cases strengthening of existing towers is unavoidable. The common strengthening method of introducing additional members has some significant disadvantages such as weight and the windage area increase. An alternative strengthening method being investigated is the strengthening of tower legs or braces using Carbon Fibre Reinforced Polymer (CFRP).

The term is used to describe a fibre reinforced composite material that uses fibres as the primary structural component and thermosetting resins such as epoxy, polyester, or vinyl ester as the matrix.

Some advantages of this strengthening method include:

• negligible increase of the reference wind area and therefore of the wind forces,
• marginal increase in structural self-weight,
• no need for exchange of brace profiles,
• adjustment and fine tuning of the extent of strengthening to the design needs
• great strength to corrosion and fatigue.

Some advantages of this strengthening method include:

• A totally brittle failure. It has no plastic behavior, so it has not the ability to absorb energy
• Anisotropic response and strength. There are many variables that could change its behavior and strength. The grade and quality of materials, the manufacturing process, fiber architecture, and the quality need to be considered.

It will certainly be interesting to see if this technology is adopted within the telecoms industry.

KAEG has the capability to accurately engineer complex and challenging telecom structures, including providing cost effective workable strengthening schemes aimed at improving structural capacity and life-extension. Contact our expert team at: info@ka-engroup.com to learn more and discuss how we can best serve your needs.