01 — Shop

The floor where it’s made

The shop is laid out the way steel moves: material in, cut and drill, fit-up, weld, finish, staged for shipping.

Cut & drill

Saw, drill line and cutting table for beams, tube, angle and plate. Parts are marked to the piece mark before they move to fit-up.

Fitters assemble from shop drawings on layout tables, checking square, length and hole patterns before tacking.

Structural welders complete the joints called for on the drawings. Welds are visually inspected before parts move on.

Cleaning, primer or the specified coating, and touch-up. Galvanized pieces are coordinated with an outside galvanizer.

Pieces are tagged, bundled in erection sequence and loaded so the field crew can set them in order.