Steel and Off-Site Construction

Steel and offsite construction
Designers and specifiers have long recognised the benefits that steel offers the construction sector – noting steel framing as the original offsite framing material.

Fabrication of individual steel pieces takes place offsite, under controlled, highly regulated and safe factory conditions, where the use of digital design and leading-edge fabrication systems deliver precision-engineered components with minimum waste. Steel components are further pre-assembled or fabricated into modules either offsite or at the site at a low level.

Steel structures are often prototypes or trial built offsite to ensure a perfect fit when the fabricated steel modules undergo final assembly onsite. This means that the majority of the value add for structural steel occurs offsite.