Steel Erection

STEEL ERECTION

Whether it’s a raising gang on a building or a crane rail change out in an existing facility, STEVENS’ experienced ironworkers and operators can handle the job.

With our experience, commitment, and quality, STEVENS is prepared to safely execute and design engineered lifts. STEVENS Checks everything from operator qualifications and crane inspections, to weather and rigging.

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The Many Benefits and Wonders of Steel Buildings

The construction industry has evolved a lot. There were many materials being used nowadays that makes the construction work easier than it was before. Customers can now select from different design configurations that were specially engineered to fit together in different combinations. This new designs can meet the unique requirements of specific users.

The term prefabricated can also apply to be able to indicate the pre-site's high level of construction work that usually goes on at the manufacturer's factory before they are sent to the site of the construction. When the prefabricated buildings arrive at the construction site, there is very little work to be done to put them up together.

Advantages of Metal Buildings

Admittedly, there are still some people who prefer using traditional materials to erect their building rather than using prefabricated modules. This is because they are not aware of the many benefits and advantages that steel buildings can provide them.

Steel erection is all about the safe and efficient movement of iron and disciplined detailing all the while engineering safety into those activities.

STEVENS strictly abides by a zero-accident policy. Every construction site utilized by STEVENS is a completely safe working environment.

If you need Steel Erection for your next industrial project, click the link below to receive a quote from STEVENS Industrial Engineers and Constructors.

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Less Time Spent on Construction

This is maybe one of the most important benefits that you can get from using steel buildings. Typically, these buildings take so much less time to build than any other building structure types there is. More often than not, prefabricated building components were designed and pre-built so that it will be easy to assemble. The processes that usually take place on the site of the construction with other building materials are usually taking place before the steel building system components have left the factory. Using a prefabricated building, smaller buildings that usually take weeks and months to build can be erected in just a few days.

Easy Expansion

Because of its dynamic design, steel building systems can be modified economically and quickly during or even after the completion of the building. This makes it easier to accommodate all kinds of expansion that is needed for the building. Steel buildings can be expanded easily by simply removing the sidewalls or end walls. With this, you can erect new framework and add more walls and roof panels.

Material-Utilization's High Efficiency

The processes used to fabricate structural members of a metal building are state-of-the-art computer-aided designs. Using steel itself has the highest strength to weight ratio than any other construction material. It is also around 25 times stronger than wood.

Advantages of Commercial Steel Buildings

Without any doubt, in the beginning of the 21st century, industry seems to play a more significant role in our modern lives then agriculture. Although nobody can underestimate the importance of agriculture, people are not directly dependent on it. It is more likely that our lives are being shaped by the precise development of certain industries.

You probably do not remember those days when your city was mainly a business-free area. Today no matter where you look, you bump into stores, malls or even giant industrial areas. We, Americans are pretty much known for our enterprising approach, which has encouraged us erecting always more - and bigger - buildings to inspire ownership.

However, it required new technologies, designs and materials, because the good old wooden structure failed when it came to build giant malls or skyscrapers. The best material for these purposes seemed to be steel and up to nowadays, commercial steel buildings are the most popular. There are a number of commercial building types including malls, warehouses, retail stores, commercial distribution centers and steel is the perfect choice for all of these.

Should you decide to erect a modern commercial building, the material you need is steel. All you need to consider is the layout, size and custom design and the limit is only your imagination! Steel is suitable for extremely long or high buildings, and you can incorporate other materials like glass or wood for a more sophisticated look.

Commercial steel buildings are relatively easy to erect or even to be transported, which is proved by the tons of multinational companies who change their headquarters every few years. Companies prefer to choose steel because commercial metal buildings are fire-proof, and this is also reflected in insurance prices.

3 Types of Steel Structures

Many of the modern steel construction projects take place with the help of the immensely strong mild steel. It has the ability to give great strength to buildings and its flexible nature means it can bend without causing any damage or cracking. Here are a few of the materials used in the framework of constructing a building:

Bolted steel

The bolted steel construction process is designed to be straightforward and as time-efficient as possible. The steel is produced in the workshop at the right length and painted to create the ready to use components. Bolted steel is the favored steel construction method. But, the lengths of steel are limited to the size of the trailer or truck that is delivering the material. The actual process of erecting the steel frame relies on a crane lifting the pieces into position and then bolted in place. This makes the work on site extremely fast. One of the major projects for using bolted steel is in the process of creating the pre-engineered buildings. This type of structure is fully serviced by a single company who can take full responsibility for designing, fabricating, shipping and erecting the building.

Light Gauge

The process of using light gauge steel in a construction project is practical for small and residential buildings in parts of Europe and North America. This common build method is quite similar in principle to using wooden two-by-fours for the frame, but the light gauge steel is simply a direct replacement. This type of steel has a thickness in the region of 1 to 3 mm and has been pre-bent into shape to match the needs of the project. A few of the standard shapes to bend the steel include Z-sections or C-sections.

Conventional

The conventional type of steel fabrication relates to the workshop cutting the pieces of steel to the desired length. Once the individual pieces of steel are delivered to the work-site, they are welded together to create the solid framework. Also, certain parts of the framework can be welded together in the workshop to make the erection process more time efficient. Plus, there is the option to create a variety of ready-made pieces such as angle, C and I sections. By doing as much work as possible in the workshop the final on-site stage is that much more time efficient.

Steel Detailing Services for Strong and Effective Structures

The structural design of a building is largely responsible for the safety and security of the people who are going to occupy it. Steel detailing services are hired for the successful structural design. They provide the clients with the detailed structural drawings and the accuracy of the design depends exclusively on the accuracy of the drawings.

Steel detailing services are executed with the assistance of a Steel detailer. A detailer should possess some sort of knowledge of mathematics, reasoning, and drafting apart from the computer skills which are quite necessary in the age of computer generated drawings. Gone are the days of manual drafting when the engineers used to manually prepare the structural design sketch or drawings. This is an era of CAD technicians, drafters and detailers.

Detailers refer architects and engineers specification: To begin with the Steel Detailing process the detailers are delivered with the primary sketches or specification generated by the architects and the engineers. The company hired for the delivering these services is equipped with the experienced professionals who analyze the specification provided by the engineers and the architects to develop the further drawings.

Shop drawing and erection drawing services are provided by the detailers: Generally two types of services are provided by the service providing companies, which are shop drawing and erection drawing services.

Shop drawings are also generated by the steel detailer and they are generally developed into two different parts, single part drawings and assembly drawings. In single part drawing individual parts of steel are drafted like plate etc, whereas in the assembly drawings the entire steel member is drawn such as beam, column, stairs, braces etc.

Things to Consider While Building a Steel Building

Steel buildings are a modern trend. they are becoming a replacement to brick made and wooden structures. The brick and wooden structures were traditionally very common but they had some drawbacks, which include corrosion, huge expenses, and lot of maintenance, and heavy weight of material which makes it unable to transfer it from one place to another. They have a number of merits over its wooden and brick made counterparts. They are sturdier and thus, durable and reliable as compared to other structures. They are strong enough to withstand and besides all this, they are very cheap and requires little maintenance. These facts ultimately lead to the fame for steel structures throughout the world.

Erecting a Steel Structure

Building such a structure is simple and easy. Even a person with no experience of construction can erect a steel building with just a little know-how. They have modules and part pre-built in factory readily available in the market. These modules and parts could be transported to the site for assembling the parts and then erecting the structure. Such structures are actually prefabricated steel structures.

Contact Details:

Stevens Engineers & Constructors

7850 Freeway Rd #100

Middleburg Heights, OH 44130

Phone: (440) 571-6851