Steel Erection Best Practices Links To All Chapters
Below you will find links to Steel Estimating Solutions steel erection best practices. You will see 25 sections regarding this topic. It is by no means an end all, I will say these best practices served our company very well for many years.
If you are just getting started in the industry my hope is you will find some value from this series to help you move forward, and for those that have been playing the game for sometime I hope that you may find a nugget or two 🙂
In the following sections we will cover the best practices for Steel Erection
- Preparation For Steel Erection
- Safety
- Plans
- Sequencing of Steel
- Pre-Erection Meeting with key personnel
- Site Visit
- Site Specific Erection Plan
- Pre-Job Meeting
- Cranes and Equipment
- Common Pitfalls Steel Erectors Face
- Intro To Unloading & Shaking Out Steel
- Unloading & Shaking Out Columns
- Unloading & Shaking Out Beams
- Unloading & Shaking Out Joist and Joist Girders
- Unloading & Shaking Out Deck
- Unloading & Shaking Out Miscellaneous Steel
- Unloading & Shaking Out Stairs
- Intro To Erecting Steel
- Erecting Columns
- Erecting Beams
- Erecting Joist
- Metal Deck
- Installing Miscellaneous Steel
- Installing Stairs & Landings
- Erection Crews Sizes
Steel Estimating Solutions
Vince Hughes
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- Ability to create your own tasks and add new categories
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