Steel knowledge
PEB & steel structures
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)?
A pre-engineered building is a steel building whose frames, secondary members and cladding are designed as a system and fabricated in the factory to suit one project – f…
Structural steel sections and how they are written
I and H sections, channels, angles, hollow sections, plates and cold-formed purlins – what they look like, how their dimensions are written on drawings and in the BOM, a…
Steel erection: sequence, stability and site checks
The usual order of erecting a steel frame, why the first braced bay matters, and the checks that turn “installed” into “accepted”.
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