Engineering services in railway and bridge construction

Technical clarity for complex infrastructure projects

Project coordination, bridge erection engineering and BIM consulting — grounded in practice.

Sawa Engineering supports clients, engineering consultancies and contractors where planning, execution, approval and technical decisions come together.

Our focus is on technical project coordination in structural engineering, the development of feasible bridge erection schemes and consulting and coordination in the field of BIM and digital design models. We combine practical project experience with a structured view of structures, interfaces, variants and technical requirements.

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Rail · bridge · tunnel Erection in seven phases
Services

Engineering services for complex infrastructure projects.

Sawa Engineering supports projects where technical requirements, different specialist disciplines and practical execution have to be coordinated.

Project coordination

Technical coordination of complex railway, bridge and infrastructure projects. The focus is on coordination between specialist disciplines, clarification of technical interfaces and structured preparation of sound decisions.

Bridge erection engineering

Development and coordination of technically feasible erection schemes for bridge structures. Construction stages, erection sequences, temporary works, logistics and site boundary conditions are considered jointly.

BIM consulting

Advice and support on the practical use of digital building models. The focus is on clear BIM processes, coordinated information requirements and a usable link between model, design and project delivery.

Approach

Engineering at the decisive interfaces.

Complex infrastructure projects arise from the interplay of many disciplines, companies and project phases. It is precisely at the transitions between design, execution and project management that technical questions arise which must be unambiguously clarified and traceably documented.

Sawa Engineering supports these processes with practical project experience, technical understanding and a structured way of working. The goal: workable solutions, clear responsibilities and sound decision-making foundations.

Principles
  • Technically sound. Technically robust foundations, railway regulations, statics of construction stages, verifiable documentation.
  • Interface-focused. Transitions between design, checking, execution and client side clearly resolved.
  • Close to execution. Schemes that hold up on site — construction sequence, logistics and boundary conditions considered from the outset.
Project experience

Fields of activity and project experience.

Selected contributions to real railway, bridge and infrastructure projects.

Railway infrastructure

Schienenanbindung Feste Fehmarnbeltquerung, PFA 2/3

External KIB project engineer through Hays in the client and infrastructure-operator environment: design coordination, structure coordination and technical clarifications.

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Bridge engineering

Berliner Brücke Duisburg (A59)

Coordination of erection engineering for the replacement of the steel bridge. Client: Plauen Stahl Technologie.

Rail BIM

ABS 38 München / Mühldorf / Freilassing

BIM coordination of specialist models: model checking, clash detection and documentation of design status.

Knowledge transfer

Training and teaching

Hands-on training in structural engineering, BIM and digital design processes.

The descriptions refer to the respective contribution of Sawa Engineering in each project.

DIGITAL TOOLS

Verify positions quickly. See connections clearly.

We build digital tools that let engineers verify positions quickly — for example in structural analysis, and in further areas. Alongside, we develop digital training and interactive 3D demonstrators that make technical relationships more tangible.

The separate tool website sawa-eng.com brings together interactive tools for design, preliminary checks and fabrication. Engineering services and direct project enquiries remain here on sawa.engineering.

Tool 01 · 2D structural analysis

Preliminary design of frame systems

Quickly verify support reactions, internal forces and deformations. Ideal for initial position checks during preliminary design.

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Demonstrator 01 · Railway bridge replacement

Railway bridge replacement under live traffic

Interactive 3D simulation of the construction sequence: from the existing bridge through temporary bridges and lateral slide to reopening of the line.

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Demonstrator 02 · Cantilever retaining wall explorer

Cantilever retaining wall: preliminary design, execution and joints

Interactive preliminary design of a cast-in-place cantilever retaining wall with geometry, earth pressure, verification chain and joint detailing in a realistic railway environment.

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Demonstrator 03 · Steel Bridge Erector

Steel Bridge Erection Under Real Environmental Conditions

How temperature, wind and sun affect construction state and closing sequence. A demonstrator showing how environmental conditions change construction states, fit conditions and risks in steel bridge erection – from strand-jack lift to closing weld. With traceable reference cases and documented evidence, without execution approval.

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Further demonstrators in preparation
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Team

Civil engineer with project experience in railway and bridge construction.

Sékou Sawadogo, civil engineer, beneath a steel bridge

Sékou Sawadogo, Dipl.-Ing.

Civil engineer for railway and bridge construction

Graduate civil engineer and freelance since October 2024. Years of experience as a project and erection engineer in bridge, railway and infrastructure projects: from technical project coordination on the client and project side, through bridge erection engineering, to BIM consulting and model coordination.

  • Civil engineering studies at the University of the Bundeswehr Munich, specialising in structural engineering.
  • Solution Technical Specialist AEC at GRAITEC from September 2021 to October 2024.
  • First prize in the 2009/2010 Bavarian Construction Industry University Award competition for a diploma thesis on selecting slab formwork.
  • Working languages: French, German and English.
LinkedIn profile University award: prize winners Previous GRAITEC speaker profile
Target audiences

Who we work for.

Flexible under framework contract, per project or by the day.

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Clients and infrastructure operators in the railway, bridge and infrastructure sector

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Engineering consultancies needing capacity in structural engineering or model coordination

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Contractors and steelwork contractors needing bridge erection engineering

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General designers and project managers wishing to add technical coordination and BIM consulting

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Companies and project teams in railway and bridge construction needing additional engineering capacity

Contact

Discuss a technical project.

Briefly describe your project and the desired scope. You will usually receive a response within one working day.

TEL+49 162 885 25 30
@info@sawa.engineering
ADRBucherstrasse 100, city office · 90408 Nuremberg

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