Elance Steel’s installation crews don’t show up to a site and figure it out. Job sites are complex, each with a unique set of challenges that need to be integrated into the plan. By the time steel arrives, our team has already worked through the erection sequence with project management and the design team. Every piece is identified, catalogued, and shipped in the order it needs to go up. That level of preparation is what separates a smooth, safe installation from one that burns schedule where cost and safety implications are at their highest.
The advantage of having installation under the same roof as fabrication and design is simple: the crew in the field knows what they’re getting. They were involved when the steel was being detailed. They helped form the erection procedures and execution methodology. When something doesn’t line up on site (and it happens on every project) they can get immediate answers from the team, not through a chain of emails between three different companies.
Our crews have installed steel on active industrial sites, in occupied institutional buildings, on arena roofs with 160-foot curved trusses, and on phased commercial projects where other trades were already working around them. The conditions vary. The approach doesn’t: plan the sequence, prep the steel, and get it up safely.
