Illuminated steel girders of a structural frame against a night sky

Established 2008. Headquartered in Kuala Lumpur.

Engineering that
carries the load.

Cantilever Engineering provides civil, structural, mechanical and electrical engineering for construction, industrial and infrastructure projects, from feasibility through to final inspection.

Structural rigor, applied practically

Cantilever Engineering was founded in 2008 by a small group of structural and civil engineers who were tired of watching good designs get diluted by poor coordination. We built the practice around a simple idea: keep the disciplines that a project actually needs — civil, structural, mechanical, electrical — under one roof, working from the same model and the same schedule.

That structure still holds. Every project is led by a registered engineer who stays with it from the first site visit to the final inspection, and every calculation is checked by a second engineer before it leaves the office. It is a slower way to work than some clients expect. It is also why our designs hold up on site, not just on paper.

2008Practice founded
BEMRegistered engineering practice
ISO 9001Certified since 2014
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Engineering disciplines

Seven disciplines, coordinated as one team. Engage us for a single scope or for the full engineering package on a project.

CE

Civil Engineering

Site development, earthworks, drainage and roadworks design, sized correctly the first time so approvals don't stall on resubmission.

SE

Structural Engineering

Structural analysis and design for buildings, bridges and industrial structures, carried through from concept to construction support on site.

ME

Mechanical Engineering

HVAC, plumbing and fire protection systems sized for real operating loads, not just code minimums, and coordinated to avoid clashes.

EE

Electrical Engineering

Power distribution, lighting and low-voltage systems designed with headroom for the load a building will actually carry in ten years.

IE

Industrial Engineering

Process layout, materials handling and facility design work that gets measured in throughput, not just floor area.

PM

Project Management

Budget, schedule and site coordination run by engineers who understand the drawings, not just the Gantt chart.

EC

Engineering Consultancy

Independent technical review, due diligence and second-opinion advisory work for owners, lenders and developers.

Built for complex, coordinated work

Most engineering failures aren't calculation errors. They're coordination failures — a duct that clashes with a beam, a load path nobody checked against the electrical riser. Running every discipline through one office, on one shared model, is how we catch those problems in the drawing set instead of on site.

Our engineers work across a common set of tools and hold themselves to international codes alongside local regulation, so a design produced here reads the same way to a contractor, an authority reviewer, or a lender's independent checker.

Design software Revit, Tekla Structures, ETABS, AutoCAD Civil 3D
Standards Uniform Building By-Laws (MY), Eurocode, MS/BS codes
Certifications ISO 9001:2015, ISO 45001:2018
Team 40+ engineers, registered across 7 disciplines
Delivery models Design-bid-build, design-build, EPCM

Selected projects

A sample of recent work across infrastructure, industrial and structural engineering. Full case studies are available on request.

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Northbank Distribution Centre

TypeIndustrial
Scope38,000 m² logistics facility
LocationPort Klang, Selangor
ServicesStructural, Mechanical, PM
ResultDelivered 5 weeks ahead of schedule
View of a steel bridge structure from the ground

Sungai Balak Bridge Rehabilitation

TypeInfrastructure
ScopeStructural retrofit of a river crossing
LocationPerak
ServicesCivil, Structural, Consultancy
Result25-year service life extension, no full closure
Architectural exterior of a multi-storey commercial building

Bukit Jelutong Commercial Tower

TypeStructural
Scope22-storey mixed-use tower, post-tensioned slabs
LocationShah Alam, Selangor
ServicesStructural, Mechanical, Consultancy
Result12% reduction in structural steel tonnage
Low angle view of a steel support post

Tanjung Substation Upgrade

TypeElectrical / Industrial
Scope132kV substation capacity upgrade
LocationJohor
ServicesElectrical, Industrial
Result+40MW capacity, zero unplanned outages

Why clients choose Cantilever

Technical expertise

Every design is led by a registered engineer with direct experience in that discipline, not a generalist spreading across seven fields.

Quality assurance

A second, independent engineer checks every calculation and drawing before it leaves the office — standard on every project, not an add-on.

Safety record

ISO 45001-certified safety management, applied to our own site visits as strictly as we ask contractors to apply it to theirs.

Reliable delivery

The engineer who scopes your project is the engineer who signs it off. Continuity is what keeps a schedule honest.

Applied innovation

We adopt new tools and methods when they measurably improve a design outcome, not because they're new.

How a project moves through our office

  1. 01

    Consultation

    We meet on site or on your drawings, understand the constraints that actually matter, and scope only the work you need.

  2. 02

    Planning

    Feasibility, code review and a coordination plan across every discipline involved, agreed before design work starts.

  3. 03

    Engineering

    Detailed design and calculation, checked independently at every stage, and issued for authority submission and tender.

  4. 04

    Execution

    Construction support, site inspection and shop-drawing review, so the design intent survives contact with the site.

  5. 05

    Delivery

    As-built documentation, final inspection and sign-off, handed over in a form your operations team can actually use.

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Office

Level 18, 2 Jalan Kia Peng
50450 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Contact

+60 3-2141 8890
[email protected]

Hours

Monday – Friday, 9:00 – 18:00
Site visits by appointment