About RKALC

built by a practising structural engineer, for practising structural engineers.

RKALC was created from more than two decades of designing, reviewing and delivering complex structural projects across Australia and internationally. Every calculation, workflow and analysis tool is developed with one objective: to help engineers design with greater confidence while keeping engineering judgement at the centre of every decision.

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Rabee Kafina Founder of RKALC
MIEAust CPEng NER
BSc MSc CEng MIStructE

The founder's story

From consulting engineer to software founder.

RKALC grew from practical tools created to solve real engineering problems. The platform remains grounded in consulting experience, transparent calculations and the realities of project delivery.

Engineering isn't about producing numbers.
It's about understanding why those numbers make sense.

Every RKALC tool is designed to help engineers think more clearly, verify assumptions and design with confidence.

Every tool in RKALC exists because it solved a real engineering problem.

RKALC was built to support engineering judgement through transparent calculations, visible assumptions and practical workflows not to replace the engineer making the decision.

I'm Rabee Kafina, a Chartered Structural Engineer based in Sydney.

For more than 24 years, I have worked across structural design, construction supervision, design management and project delivery in Australia and Dubai.

My experience includes high-rise residential towers, hotels, commercial developments, deep basements, temporary works, structural steel, reinforced concrete, precast systems, masonry, foundations and complex construction sequencing.

Throughout that career, I repeatedly encountered the same problem: engineers were switching between spreadsheets, disconnected programs and manual calculations simply to establish, check and communicate a design decision.

RKALC grew from my attempt to solve that problem. What started as a collection of tools for my own consulting work has evolved into a platform that brings analysis, design and verification together while keeping assumptions, calculations and engineering judgement visible.

Engineering philosophy

Software should strengthen engineering judgement.

RKALC is not designed to replace the engineer. It is designed to make engineering reasoning clearer, faster to review and easier to communicate.

Engineering first

Each feature begins with a practical engineering problem, not a marketing checklist.

Transparency over black boxes

Engineers should be able to follow the assumptions, calculations and governing checks behind a result.

Continuous improvement

The platform continues to evolve through feedback from practising engineers and lessons from real workflows.

Professional experience

Built on practical project delivery.

The tools within RKALC are shaped by experience across concept design, detailed analysis, documentation, peer review, construction support and project handover.

24+ Years of structural engineering experience

500+ Registered engineers worldwide

68+ Engineering firms represented

40+ Engineering tools and workflows

Experience across complex structures

Rabee's career has included projects ranging from mid-rise buildings to major high-rise and supertall developments, with responsibilities extending from initial structural concepts through design management, construction supervision, peer review and technical leadership.

This background continues to influence how RKALC approaches structural behaviour, load paths, design verification and calculation reporting.

High-rise buildings Deep basements Top-down construction Reinforced concrete Structural steel Precast structures Temporary works Peer review

Qualifications

Professional credentials across Australia, UK and UAE

RKALC is led by a practising structural engineer with professional registrations, chartered credentials and formal postgraduate study in structural engineering.

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Chartered Professional Engineer MIEAust CPEng NER, Australia

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Chartered Structural Engineer CEng MIStructE, United Kingdom

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MSc Structural Engineering with Distinction University of Surrey, United Kingdom

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Licensed Structural Engineer Dubai Municipality

The vision

A platform for stronger engineering decisions.

Structural engineering has always relied on knowledge passed from one engineer to another. RKALC aims to make that knowledge more accessible through practical software, transparent calculations and engineering education.

Whether the user is a graduate learning structural behaviour or a principal engineer checking a complex design, the objective remains the same.

Help engineers make better decisions with greater confidence.

A personal note

RKALC is the result of real engineering work.

I have spent most of my career designing buildings that other people live and work in. RKALC is the result of thousands of hours spent solving engineering problems, checking calculations and refining workflows on real projects.

I remain closely connected to engineering practice, which means the platform continues to evolve alongside the challenges engineers face every day.

Thank you to every engineer who has tested a tool, questioned an assumption, reported an issue or suggested a better way of working. That feedback continues to shape RKALC.

Rabee Kafina
Founder, RKALC

admin@rkalc.net

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