Structural Steel Erection

This is steel erection day and this is where the planning that went into a project either pays off or doesn't. Our crew is up on the scaffold connecting beams as they come off the crane, working through the sequence we laid out before anyone set foot on that site. The steel you see going up was fabricated in our shop, loaded onto the truck, and is being set into its final position here.

Working at height with a crane requires every person on that site to know their role. The rigger on the ground, the crew on the scaffold, the operator in the cab, everyone has to be communicating and moving in sequence. Our guys have done this enough times that it runs the way it should, efficiently and safely without unnecessary delays.

The scale of the steel in this photo gives a sense of the kind of commercial work we take on. These are not light gauge pieces, this is heavy structural steel going into a building frame and it has to land exactly where the drawings say it goes. When the last beam is set and the crane pulls away the structure stands on its own and that is the result of everything we put into it from the shop floor to the field.