Cost of structural engineer single-family house

Hello dear forum,

I have newly registered because I have already read many interesting posts here. We want to start building our single-family house (190 sqm, plus basement, 1.5 stories) in Bavaria in summer. Now our architect forwarded us an offer today for the structural planning from the engineer, which amounts to a total of 20,000 euros. That seems quite expensive to us. What are your experiences with this?

Hendrik

Far too much if your house is standard.

Are you building with individual contracts? Then obtain offers yourself and do not accept the offer from the architect’s best colleague without comparison.

Are you building with a general contractor? Then do not hire a structural engineer, the general contractor usually does that themselves...

20,000€? :eek:

Are you sure that is only for the structural planning? Or are there other services included in the offer? Energy consulting, construction supervision, etc?

I currently have a few offers for a single-family house in Lower Saxony:
Structural calculation approx. 2500-3000€ net
Thermal insulation certificate: approx. 650€ net

With us the following costs:

Structural design:
Approval planning & execution planning including earthquake verification and incidental cost flat rate (chargeable costs 270TEUR)
Flat fee net 7,700€

KFW55 expert services:
Flat fee net 2,250€ (50% of which is eligible for funding)

We had 2 offers with identical services: 4,500 and 10,000 net. According to the architect, it was probably due to the current workload of the two offices.

Now our architect has forwarded us an offer for the structural engineering from the static engineer today, which amounts to a total of 20,000 euros. That seems quite expensive to us.

Me too. Obtain an alternative offer.