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OUR WORK
Our responsibility is to make positive and sustainable decisions daily for the best practices in our construction activities. Through critical planning and assessing our operational approach we can make a difference. Utilizing the best technologies and proactive design assist with our construction partners enables efficiency in many areas.
DESIGN ASSIST
Superior Steel & Ironworkers are a critical path subcontractor. We look at the whole project, not just our steel scope. We analyze the best means and methods for an efficient schedule, cost savings and a quality project. Our approach is to start with Design Assist. This means getting involved in early stages with the owner and their design team. Our knowledge and expertise installing steel will facilitate the team’s decisions by addressing build ability, project sequencing, site material management and sizing materials. Steel lead times are long and these decisions must be made early.
The key to a successful project is steel and concrete. If those are wrong at the beginning the whole project will suffer. Problems will increase affecting all work. Our Design assist involvement before we’re on site makes a difference.
COLLABORATION
We look at the big picture, an example our work installing seismic upgrades at the University Washington. The historic Hutchinson Hall built in 1927 is an ideal example of design assist and operating as a critical path subcontractor. Although not the low bidder, we were successful in securing the project because of our holistic approach. We saved time and money for the General Contractor .
By not cutting into and opening the original slate roof we eliminated the need for roofing repair, potential hazardous material abatement, temporary interior protection during construction, and roofing liability insurance requirements.
But it also saved money and schedule by focusing the on site time with the crane to weekend work. This substantially reduced crane costs as well as traffic coordination and management risk on a busy campus. Using Tekla total station we captured exact measurements for fabrication and were able to assemble large pieces to be lifted directly to the roof for installation. This saved time with material management but we were also able to galvanize these larger pieces as one unit for better long term protection.
- DESIGN ASSIST
- ERECTION SEQUENCE
- SEISMIC/RETROFIT
- MASS TIMBER
- PEDESTRIAN BRIDGES
- ART INSTALLATIONS
- MONUMENTAL STAIRS
- CANOPIES
- GREEN WALLS
- RAILINGS/HAND RAILS
- PEDESTRIAN BRIDGES
