Feasibility & concept design
Early structural advice, option studies and buildability input to help establish a viable route before detailed design.
Independent structural engineering consultancy
Designing Structures,
Engineering Dreams
Practical structural engineering for new-build, refurbishment and complex existing buildings—from the first feasibility question through design and construction.
- 17+
- Years' experience
- 4
- International regions
- CEng
- MICE Chartered Engineer
Michael Figueiredo
CEng MICE · Founder & Director
About MFCE
Engineering judgement,
delivered with clarity.
MFCE is led by Michael Figueiredo, a Chartered Civil and Structural Engineer with more than 17 years of international experience across the UK, Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
Michael's work spans residential, commercial, hospitality, sports, refurbishment and mission-critical infrastructure. His background combines hands-on structural design with team leadership, coordination and construction-phase problem solving.
Whether the project is a focused residential alteration or a complex multidisciplinary development, MFCE brings the same priorities: understand the real constraint, communicate the options clearly and develop a safe, efficient and buildable solution.
01Technical rigour
Robust analysis and details appropriate to the building, brief and risk.
02Practical thinking
Solutions shaped around access, sequencing, existing fabric and buildability.
03Clear advice
Direct communication so clients can make informed decisions with confidence.
Services
Structural expertise,
scaled to your project.
Focused engineering support for homeowners, architects, developers, contractors and fellow consultants.
Structural design & analysis
Design of steel, reinforced concrete, timber and masonry structures, from local interventions to complete building frames.
Refurbishment & alterations
Structural solutions for extensions, openings, basements, strengthening, change of use and work to existing buildings.
Surveys, reports & investigations
Site inspections and clear written advice for cracking, movement, defects, structural condition and proposed works.
Technical advisory & review
Independent design review, due diligence and strategic technical support for clients and multidisciplinary teams.
Construction-phase support
Responsive review of RFIs, submittals, site constraints, design changes and remedial solutions during delivery.
Selected experience
Structures across sectors,
scales and continents.
A selection of projects delivered by Michael in his roles at MFCE and previous engineering consultancies.
Confidential Hyperscale Data Centre Programme
Structural lead across repeat campus facilities, including scalable 80MW and 160MW data halls, offices, mechanical buildings, electrical yards and site infrastructure—from design through construction.
Associate · Lead Design EngineerConfidential Substation Facility
Led Stage 2–5 structural engineering of the foundations and superstructure for a major substation, adapting an international template to local site, procurement and programme constraints.
Associate · Lead Design EngineerQiddiya City eSports Arena ↗
Contributed to developed design of the 5,000-seat arena's roof superstructure, screen gantry and suspended chandelier trusses, focusing on long-span steel framing and load-path optimisation.
Thornton Tomasetti · AssociateLampton Road
Led structural delivery from Stage 2 for a £100m development of nine reinforced-concrete framed blocks and traditional houses, providing approximately 780 homes.
Meinhardt · Lead Structural EngineerPark Plaza Riverbank
Designed a 60-tonne suspended swimming pool within an operating hotel, using long-span steel trusses integrated into and strengthening the existing frame under severe access constraints.
Meinhardt · Senior Structural EngineerEpping Sites
Structural design across five sites combining new-build and refurbishment, including residential, commercial, cinema, car-park, office and leisure-centre components.
Meinhardt · Senior Structural EngineerMorley House
Technical management of demolition and redevelopment into a nine-storey building, including refurbishment of a historic church and structural coordination beside the Central Line.
Fairhurst · Technical ManagerCamden Lifestyle Hotel
Led structural design for a constrained hotel with a two-storey basement, contiguous piled walls, tight boundaries, underpinning, party-wall interfaces and detailed sequencing.
Meinhardt · Lead Structural EngineerCumberland Place
Structural lead for a new 12-storey reinforced-concrete framed student-accommodation building, coordinating the design through delivery and construction.
Meinhardt · Lead Senior Structural Engineer151–157 Tower Bridge Road
Assessment and adaptation of existing reinforced concrete buildings, including a new two-storey steel extension, cantilever balconies and new steel staircases.
Meinhardt · Lead Senior Structural Engineer50 Sloane Street
Designed and detailed temporary works for a new basement beneath an occupied eight-storey 1930s building, including plunge columns, jacking and sequenced load transfer.
PJCE · Structural Engineer
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Mall of Africa
Michael worked on the project from early design through completion, taking responsibility for reinforced-concrete design, reinforcement detailing and quality control of structural drawings produced by the engineering team.
- Role
- RC design & detailing
- Company
- Aurecon
- Client
- Atterbury Property Holdings
- Architect
- MDS Architecture
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How MFCE works
A clear route from
question to solution.
Proportionate engineering, visible decisions and practical outputs at every stage.
- 01
Understand
Define the brief, constraints, existing information, programme and the decision you need to make.
- 02
Investigate
Review records, inspect where needed and identify the structural behaviour behind the visible issue.
- 03
Develop
Compare credible options and design the solution around safety, efficiency, access and construction.
- 04
Deliver
Provide clear calculations, drawings, sketches or reports—and remain available as the work progresses.
Contact
Have a structure
to discuss?
Tell us what you are planning, what you have observed or what decision you need to make. MFCE will respond with the clearest next step.