Steel Structures
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Design and pre-construction

Talk to the fabricator before the package is frozen. We help main contractors and engineers test buildability, programme and cost while the design can still move.

Early involvement with engineers and contractors to firm up steel budgets, buildability and programme before tender. The work is priced and managed from the Dunmurry office, then fabricated and erected by the same company.

Main contractors

For the tender file.

Main contractors and engineers use this before tender, when the frame can still change. You get a fabricator's view of cost, buildability and programme, not a comment from a firm that will never make the steel.

Local builders

For the job in hand.

If the drawings are still a sketch, call the office. A span, an eaves height and a week you want the steel standing is enough to start a conversation about a portal frame or an extension.

What is included

  • Steel budget advice from a team that will fabricate and erect the frame
  • Buildability comments on general arrangement drawings
  • Programme advice against workshop capacity in Dunmurry
  • A clear view of execution class, connections and temporary works

How it runs

  1. 01Send the drawings, or describe the building.
  2. 02We review buildability, execution class and programme.
  3. 03You get a price and a practical way to build it.
  4. 04Detailing starts once the package is appointed.

Also in the steel package

This service sits with the rest of the frame. Follow the part you need next.

Read: What to send with a steel tender

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