Field Welding

This was an exterior structural steel job with our welder working off a scaffold platform to weld members in place at height. The work is being done in open air conditions with nothing between him and the elements, which is just part of the job on an exterior commercial project like this.

Working at elevation in the field requires the same precision as any other weld but with less comfort and fewer ideal conditions. Wind and temperature factor into how you set up and execute and our guys know how to manage that without it affecting the quality of the finished connection. Every joint in that frame has to be solid because once the build progresses around it there is no going back.

The open sky in the background gives a sense of how exposed the working conditions were on this one. It is the kind of photo that shows what the job actually looks like for the people doing it and we think that is worth showing.