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Tier 1 develops the way projects get built. For developers who need construction-engineering thinking before a builder is on board — and for contractors who need specialist methodology, temporary works and value engineering they can't carry in-house.
Tier 1 Engineering delivers finished work — models, drawings, designs, studies. You hire the output, not the conversation. Bundled on larger briefs, retained individually on smaller ones.
How the building actually gets built. The definitive construction narrative — method, sequence, plant, resource, duration — as a deliverable pack the whole team works to.
Feasibility-stage buildability, order-of-magnitude pricing, DA-stage construction logic. The construction brain developers need before the builder is on board.
Climbing formwork, temp-support structures, crane strategy, access, load paths. T1-Series Jump Form is our own system — built from this discipline.
Cost reduction through buildability, sequence optimisation and methodology-led design changes. The construction-side answer to commercial pressure — proven savings, not slide-deck savings.
Client-side direction for developers: planning approvals, DA strategy, tender, delivery. Run by people who've engineered what they're now managing.
Tender assessment, delay analysis, programme forensics, dispute-ready engineering reports. Where an independent construction voice is needed — not an advisory one.
A self-climbing modular formwork system for high-rise concrete cores — engineered from a decade of deploying jump forms on landmark towers in London, Dubai and Toronto. Now Tier 1's own system, with proprietary design and patents pending.
A selection from two decades of construction-engineering and pre-construction work across London, Dubai, Toronto and Central Asia — the experience Tier 1 Engineering is built on.
Construction engineering lead on the 18,000-tonne steel roof — 180m arches, staged FE analysis, temporary support design across one of the world's largest terminal programmes.
Construction-engineering on the structural build-up of the world's largest observation wheel. Staged analysis, lift sequencing, temporary works for a one-of-a-kind erection programme.
Temporary works lead on site in Kazakhstan for the tallest mixed-use tower in Central Asia. Methodology and temp-works design for a technically demanding programme in a remote delivery environment.
Jump-form design and deployment on a 67-storey high-rise. Part of a portfolio of 10 landmark towers across UK, UAE and Canada delivered as Operations Manager at M-Tech Jump Forms.
Jump-form design for a 50-storey commercial tower in the City of London. Technical design and site deployment of a reusable modular jump-form system.
Pre-construction and site engineering lead on a residential tower, two commercial towers, three-storey basement and protected archaeological remains — an entirely bespoke methodology for a 2-acre footprint.
Tier 1 Engineering is directed by Rob Palmer — a Civil Engineer (BE Hons, University of Queensland) with 20+ years in construction engineering and pre-construction delivery. MIEAust and RPEQ-registered, the career arc runs Brisbane (Robert Bird Group, undergraduate) → Dubai (Robert Bird Group, M-Tech Jump Forms, PCS) → London (Multiplex Europe, PCS, EMR Reusable Steels) and now home.
The work sits in a specific technical niche: staged FE analysis, temporary works design, jump-form systems, bespoke methodology and pre-construction delivery on landmark programmes up to $3bn. 8 Bishopsgate, Dubai Eye, Abu Dhabi Airport, The Stage Shoreditch, One Za'abeel, Abu Dhabi Plaza — the projects that are now Tier 1's reference set.