Elance Steel’s installation crews don’t show up to a site and figure it out. By the time steel arrives, our team has already worked through the erection sequence with the fabrication and design groups. Every piece is identified, catalogued, and shipped in the order it needs to go up. That level of preparation is what separates a smooth erection from one that burns schedule.
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 had input on connection types, lifting points, and member weights. When something doesn’t line up on site (and it happens on every project) they can get answers from the fabrication shop directly, 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.
