ᐅ Costs for Structural Engineer Single-Family Home Structural Design

Hello dear forum,

I just registered because I have already read many interesting posts here.
We plan to start building our single-family house (190 sqm (2,045 sq ft), plus basement, 1.5 stories) in Bavaria this summer.
Today, our architect forwarded us an offer from the structural engineer for the structural planning, totaling 20,000 euros. That seems quite expensive to us.
What are your experiences with this?

Hendrik1980

Far too much if your house is standard.

Are you managing individual contracts? Then get quotes yourself and don’t just accept the offer from the architect’s best associate without comparison.

Are you building with a general contractor? Then don’t hire a structural engineer separately; the general contractor usually handles that themselves...

€20,000? 😱

Are you sure that’s just for the structural engineering? Or does the quote include other services as well? Energy consulting, construction supervision, etc.?

I currently have a few quotes here for a single-family house in Lower Saxony:
Structural calculation around €2,500–3,000 net
Thermal insulation certificate: around €650 net

Our costs are as follows:

Structural engineering:
Approval planning & detailed design including seismic verification and incidental costs flat rate (eligible costs 270,000 EUR)
Flat fee net 7,700 EUR

KfW55 expert services:
Flat fee net 2,250 EUR (50% of which is eligible for funding)

We received two quotes for the same scope of work: 4,500 and 10,000 net. According to the architect, the difference was probably due to the current workload of the two offices.

Hendrik1980 schrieb:

Our architect has now forwarded us an offer from the structural engineer for the structural planning, totaling 20,000 euros. This seems quite expensive to us.

I agree. Get an alternative offer.