Steel industry knowledge

How pre-engineered buildings and structural steel frames are put together, from primary frames to purlins, and how they are erected.

• What is a pre-engineered building (PEB)?
• Structural steel sections and how they are written
• Steel erection: sequence, stability and site checks

Steel grades in the main standards, mill certificates and traceability, and the bolts that hold a structure together.

• Steel grades and mill certificates (EN 10204 3.1)
• Structural bolts: grades, sets and tightening

From the 3D model to finished members: detailing, cutting, fitting, welding, inspection – and how to estimate scrap and welding consumables.

• The steel fabrication process, step by step
• Exporting a clean IFC from Tekla Structures: checklist
• Cutting optimisation and how to keep scrap below 3 %
• Welding basics for steel fabricators
• Estimating deposited metal and welding consumables

Execution classes, quality management systems, inspection and test plans, blast cleaning, paint systems and galvanising.

• Execution classes, ITPs and hold points
• Surface preparation, paint systems and galvanising

Containers, loading, securing, VGM, seals, wooden packaging and the documents that travel with a steel shipment.

• Shipping structural steel in containers