Site management and construction supervision in Hückelhoven, Kreis Heinsberg
We take your house through the construction stage. We bring the contractors into a workable order, keep the programme up to date, check the work on site and stay with you until handover. On your side of the table sits an engineer who can read the structural calculations himself.
01Remit
Site management is not watching. It is deciding while the work goes on, in a way that keeps programme, quality and cost together.
We put the contractors into an order that holds, and tell each one in advance what it will find when it arrives. The cost nobody budgeted for arises between two trades, not inside one.
A site where nobody is waiting for anybody else.
We look at whether what is being built matches the construction drawings and the structural calculations. Reinforcement, bearings, junctions and waterproofing are checked while they are still visible.
No deviation that only shows up after plastering.
We keep the programme current, review variations and invoices on their merits, prepare the handover and follow open points until they are closed.
An end of works with a record rather than open questions.
Whether we take on full site management or supervision alone is your decision. Both are possible, and in either case we set the scope down in writing beforehand.
02Stages
Four stages, and each one asks for a different kind of attention.
We go through the quotations, close the gaps in the scopes and agree with you who owes what. The first programme grows out of those commitments.
Foundations, walls, slabs, reinforcement. More disappears behind concrete and masonry in this stage than in any other, which is why most site visits fall here.
Roof, windows, pipework, screed, plaster. Now the order matters: one trade too early and another one works twice.
Inspection, record, remaining items, follow up. You receive the documents you will later need towards contractors and authorities.
In practice the stages overlap. The programme records which work is waiting on which, and that is exactly where our site visits sit.
03Enquiry
Two or three sentences will do to start with: the location, the size and the planned start on site. We come back with exactly the questions a sound proposal really needs.
The enquiry commits you to nothing. You receive an assessment of the scope of site management and a suggestion for how often we should be on site.
04On site
A site visit without a list is a walk. These are the points that most often cost money on a house when nobody checks them.
How often we come depends on the stage. Short intervals make sense during the structural works; during fit out, visits timed to the junctions between two trades usually serve better.
05Trades
A house is built by a dozen firms. Faults rarely appear in the middle of one trade. They appear where two of them meet.
Bearings, ring beams and anchorage have to match the roof structure. Settle that only once you are on the roof and the crane is long gone.
Pipework, insulation and edge strips need to be agreed. Otherwise the screed cracks, or the build up height no longer works.
Sealing tape, reveal and render stop decide whether the joint stays tight. Putting that right later takes considerable effort.
Which trades are actually appointed depends on your project. The list shows what we usually coordinate on a house.
06Images
From the meeting on the plot to the handover. The photographs show the stages this page talks about.
The photographs show typical construction stages and stand for the services described. They do not depict particular projects of this office.
07Area
Site management lives on short distances. From Wassenberg we are in Ratheim, Baal or Brachelen within minutes, which is why one more visit here is never a matter of principle.
The office sits in Wassenberg, a few kilometres north of Hückelhoven. We also work outside Kreis Heinsberg, and then we agree the number of site visits with you in advance.
Districts of Hückelhoven
Neighbouring towns
08Questions
What clients in Hückelhoven most often want to know before appointing a site manager.
Supervision checks whether the work follows the drawings and the recognised rules. Site management goes further: it coordinates the contractors, keeps the programme, reviews variations and invoices and prepares the handover. We offer both, and we set down in writing which scope applies before the appointment.
That depends on the stage and on the size of the project. Short intervals make sense during structural works, because a great deal gets covered up. During fit out, visits at the junctions between two trades are often enough. We agree the number in advance and adjust it if the build calls for it.
Yes. We look at the permission, the construction drawings and the structural calculations and tell you what is still missing for sound execution. We make our proposal on that basis.
That depends on the scope, the construction period and the number of site visits. A figure without knowing the project would be guesswork. After the first conversation you receive a written proposal setting out the scope.
The contractor carrying out the work is liable for that work. We are liable for our own service, that is, for supervising and coordinating with due care. Professional indemnity insurance is held with VHV Allgemeine Versicherung AG for that purpose.
We read every structural calculation we need on site and report it when the work departs from it. A formal check of another office calculation is a service in its own right, which we discuss separately.
Yes, throughout Kreis Heinsberg and beyond it in North Rhine-Westphalia. For Hückelhoven the journey from the office in Wassenberg is particularly short, and with site management that counts directly.
09Contact
You speak to the engineer who also comes to the site. Call us, or send the enquiry: both arrive in the same place.
When something on site is not right, a phone call is quicker than any form. For everything else the enquiry further up this page is enough.
Smoku eG, Ingenieurbüro Konrad Smoczynski
Leichweg 3
41849 Wassenberg
Deutschland
Vorstand: Konrad Smoczynski
M. Sc. RWTH Konrad Smoczynski, civil engineer
Phone: +49 2432 907 93 00
Email: info@ks-ingenieur.de
Website: https://ks-ingenieur.de
M. Sc. RWTH Konrad Smoczynski
Leichweg 3, 41849 Wassenberg
Professional title: civil engineer, awarded in the Federal Republic of Germany
Qualified structural designer, authorisation number QT1542
Entitled to submit building applications in North Rhine-Westphalia, authorisation number V3693
The Engineering Act, the Chamber of Engineers Act, the professional code and the HOAI apply.
Ingenieurkammer Bau NRW
Zollhof 2, 40221 Düsseldorf
Membership number: 730097
VHV Allgemeine Versicherung AG
Westfalendamm 223, 44141 Dortmund
Geographical scope of cover: Deutschland
VAT identification number under section 27 a of the German VAT Act: DE455004862
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M. Sc. RWTH Konrad Smoczynski, Smoku eG, Ingenieurbüro Konrad Smoczynski, Leichweg 3, 41849 Wassenberg
Phone: +49 2432 907 93 00. Email: info@ks-ingenieur.de
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