Steel structure export engineering
Senior Export Engineer
Hebei Hongji Shunda Steel Structure Engineering Co., Ltd.
河北宏基舜达钢结构工程股份有限公司
Pre-engineered steel buildings for Africa and South America. One engineer, one contact, from drawing to shipment.
01 / Positioning
I am the Senior Export Engineer at Hebei Hongji Shunda Steel Structure Engineering Co., Ltd., a Chinese manufacturer of prefabricated steel buildings. I spend my working life on one problem: getting a steel building built correctly, several thousand kilometres away from where it was designed.
Most of the people I work with are not steel specialists. They are food processors, logistics operators, cooperatives, mining companies and contractors who need a building, a schedule and someone who answers the phone.
02 / About
I look after the Africa and South America markets. Practically, that means reading a production requirement, having it engineered properly, and following it all the way to the container that arrives on site.
Hongji Shunda has been making steel buildings since 2000. Today we work from a 107,000 m² manufacturing base with six production workshops. Most of what goes wrong in an exported steel building is not the steel — it is a detail that was never resolved on paper before the container was loaded.
Buyers describe a business, not a structure. A food processor in Brazil needs a plant; a cooperative in Chile needs grain storage; a logistics operator in Mozambique needs a freight warehouse. My job is to turn that sentence into a building: span and column spacing, eave height, roof and wall system, crane and mezzanine provision, insulation strategy, and the corrosion protection that suits the local environment. Wind loading is calculated for the location of the project — never assumed, and never a figure picked because it sounds safe.
Our detailing is done in Tekla, so the drawings are clash-free before fabrication starts. Every part is marked and packed in a planned sequence, and first-time builders receive a 3D installation guide. I stay with the project through fabrication and shipment, and I would rather answer a difficult question early than explain a problem late.
I answer directly. If a design will not survive the local climate, I say so. If something is outside what we do well, I say that too. Clients in Africa and South America keep coming back for the same reason: what they were promised on the drawing is what stands on site.
03 / Capabilities
Design in Tekla, prefabricate in the factory, ship as a numbered kit. These are the six things I specify on almost every project.
Warehouses, factory and workshop buildings, cold stores, logistics buildings, processing halls and industrial storage — specified as one coordinated package.
Span, column spacing, eave height, crane provision and mezzanine planning developed against what the building has to do.
Roof and wall systems and insulation strategies selected for the project climate, from tropical humidity to dry inland heat.
Hot-dip galvanizing or paint systems, selected per project environment — coastal salt exposure is specified differently from an inland site.
Calculated for the location of the project under the applicable code. No default wind speed is applied to every building.
Tekla-based detailing with clash-free shop drawings, part numbering, planned container packing and a 3D installation guide.
04 / Projects & markets
Project / Brazil
Delivered in Brazil in 2024 — one of our recent export projects. Cold storage, food processing halls and food factory buildings are a regular part of our export work, and this one shows the scale we handle.
05 / Why work with me
The person who specifies your building is the person who answers your messages.
Clash-free detailing before fabrication, so problems are solved on paper rather than on your construction site.
Parts are marked and packed in an assembly sequence, so unloading follows the same logic as erection.
If your team has never erected a steel building before, the guide shows the sequence step by step.
Cladding, insulation and corrosion protection are chosen per project, not copied from a template.
If a cheaper design will not survive your conditions, you hear that before you order — not after.
06 / FAQ
07 / Contact
Tell me what the building will be used for, roughly how large it is, and where the site is. That is enough for a straight answer.
I usually reply the same day.
