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About Us

From humble beginnings to a future of excellence
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Essjay Consulting Engineers is a multi-disciplinary building services consulting service.

Essjay Consulting Engineers offer bespoke and efficient engineering design solutions for the complete range of building services.

Backed by our passion for immaculate design and our commitment to providing sensible, sustainable and superlative building design services to our clients, we have quickly established ourselves as a trusted name in the industry.

We achieve stellar results for our clients by working with them every step of the way, providing custom solutions and a flexible approach.

Here at Essjay, we believe that by developing the skills of our people constantly, building long-term relationships with clients and through our commitment to make every project a success, we help our clients in realising their potential.

Suju James

Our People

Suju James, Director

Suju is the founding Director of Essjay Consulting Engineers.

With over 25 years of extensive experience in the building  services industry in an array of roles from Project Lead to Director, Suju has gained expertise in multiple aspects of the industry including project management, business development, design and documentation and delivery of building services.

Suju is specialised in electrical engineering and previous project experience includes shopping centres, commercial office buildings, retail stores, high & low rise apartment towers, five star hotels, mixed use developments, nursing homes, medical centre, supermarkets, car showrooms and education at all learning levels.

Suju is a registered Professional Engineer in Victoria & Queensland and a registered Design & Building Practitioner in New South Wales. He is also an active member of Engineers Australia and registered under the National Engineering Register.

Alex Lee

Alex Lee, Director

With over 20 years of experience in civil, infrastructure and buildings work such as water supply, fire services, sewerage and stormwater drainage system, Alex has worked on a variety of project and on different sides of construction (client, contractor and consulting engineer’s role) in Australia and internationally.

Over the years, Alex has led and managed multi-disciplinary engineering teams responsible for the delivery of several award winning projects in addition to business development and client relationship management. He was also responsible for the ISO9001 Quality Management and ISO14001 Environmental Management Systems in his previous role.

Apart from engineering design, Alex is passionate about contributing back to the industry and has previously served on the board of the Association of Hydraulic Services Consultants Australia (AHSCA) Victorian Chapter in the role of the 1st and 2nd Vice President and represents AHSCA in the Plumbers, Authority & Regulatory Committee (PARC) to discuss and resolve industry related matters.

Josiah Zhou

Josiah Zhou, Director

Josiah has over 15 years of experience as a consulting engineer in Australia within medium size to international companies specialising in the design and documentation of mechanical services from concept to completion. Josiah has been involved in various sectors of the industry including residential, commercial, aged care and healthcare.

Josiah is also well-versed in other building services engineering disciplines and has project-led multi-discipline teams in small to large scale construction projects. Furthermore, Josiah has produced numerous schematic spatial designs for electrical, fire and hydraulic services (in addition to mechanical services) for town planning submissions / architectural schematic designs. In addition to the above, Josiah has been engaged by mechanical contractors to complete and certify numerous D&C projects.

Josiah is a registered Professional Engineer in Victoria & Queensland, a chartered engineer with Engineers Australia and registered under the National Engineering Register.

What We Offer

We provide a wide range of engineering services to building, infrastructure and land development projects across Australia.

We offer a customised service to either work standalone or we can even come together as an efficient multi-disciplinary team for your project.

We undertake projects of all sizes across an array of sectors including hospitality, shopping centres, medical centres, nursing homes, education, land development, residential, commercial, industrial and mixed-use developments.

ESSJAY operates with a group of experienced, passionate, professional & qualified consultants/engineers/modellers.

The team of multi discipline engineers work together in offering complete engineering solutions ranging from electrical, fire protection, hydraulic, mechanical, vertical transportation to environmentally sustainable designs.

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Our Mission

To provide:

Expert Sincere Sustainable Judicious Advise to You

for all your building services engineering requirements.

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Our Vision

To be industry leaders in quality, innovation and service; from estimating to delivery.

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Our Values

Essjay Consulting Engineers is built on the following IPE values:

  • Integrity – Delivering Services with Integrity
  • Passion – Being passionate about client needs, applying the latest technologies in the design
  • Excellence – Delivering services which become the epitome of excellence