We're a metal construction company in Manchester, NH, and our part of a metal building is putting it up. The kit comes on a truck, but usually without anyone to stand it. Call (603) 660-2011 and tell us what's on order.
Maybe yours is already bought and nobody is lined up to erect it. Or you're a general contractor with a metal building in the scope and no erector on the schedule yet. Either way, that's the gap we fill.
Metal Construction Company: the work, page by page
Erecting a metal building means taking a delivered kit of steel and standing it up as one sound structure. The order matters, so we walk through erecting a pre-engineered building step by step on its own page.
They go up as workshops, garages, farm buildings and warehouses. The use changes. The steel goes up the same way. Our work is mostly commercial with some residential, so a home shop gets the same crew as a warehouse.
The job means heavy steel on a crane line and people working at height. That's why OSHA's steel erection rules give systems-engineered metal buildings a section of their own. It's also why our crew trains for both halves of it. Fall protection covers the work up high, and rigging and signalling cover the lifts, with OSHA 10 and 30 underneath.
When the job calls for them, we bring telehandlers and scissor or boom lifts to the site. The welding rig comes along as well, and the page on mobile welding lists what's on it.
A metal building is bought as a kit, designed by its maker and sent with its own drawings. Somebody still has to read them and stand the steel in the right order. That somebody is the steel building erector. That's us.
Drawings are where all of our steel work starts, because the job runs off them. On a structural job they come with the general contractor's bid invite, and a kit is no different. Its drawings just come from the maker. They also set the bracing that keeps it square, so the step-by-step page covers that too.
Buying the kit and hiring the erector are two separate decisions, but they work best made together. Line up the erector before the delivery date is set. Otherwise a kit that lands early just sits on the ground, waiting for a crew. Once we've agreed a start, we show up when we said we would.
When you compare erectors, ask each the same four things, because the answers show how the job will go. Ask for a certificate of insurance and for the crew's steel erection training. Ask whether their own people do the work, and whether they read your drawings before they gave a number. Those are fair questions for us too, so our answers are on this page.
On a general contractor's job, we come in as the erection sub. We fit our days to the schedule you already run, so the steel goes up when the site is ready. Nobody climbs until the paperwork is in, so you'll have our certificate of insurance the day you ask for it.
“They were easy to work with, took the time to make sure everything was done right, and the quality of the work really showed.”
We stand the steel from the kit's drawings with our own crew, because we do not sub the work out. Any structural welding the drawings call for stays with the same crew, so nobody waits on a second trade. That's no stretch. Outside metal buildings, we're a welding crew from Manchester for steel connections, repairs and emergency calls.
What you bring depends on how the kit was bought. The maker designs and delivers it, while the permit usually sits with the buyer's side. The concrete has to be finished before any steel goes up, because the columns stand on it. What a ready site looks like, and what moves the price, are both on the page about pre-engineered buildings.
Every job splits that work a little differently. So on the first call, tell us what's already sorted and what isn't. We plan the erection around the answer, and nobody assumes the other side has it covered.
The review below is about a welding job, not a metal building. Still, the way we work doesn't change with the steel, so it fits here.
“Really happy with the work I had done by these guys. They were easy to work with, took the time to make sure everything was done right, and the quality of the work really showed. I appreciate the professionalism and attention to detail. I’d definitely use them again and recommend them to anyone needing welding work.”
No two take the same time, so we don't publish a number of days. Size sets most of it. The rest is outside the crew's hands: when the kit arrives, whether the site is ready, and the weather. That's why we go over your timing on the first call, before any proposal goes out.
Some owners do put up small kits themselves, but it's heavier work than the kit price suggests. The steel goes up on a crane or a lift, with people working at height while it does. That calls for a trained, insured crew and the right equipment. If you'd rather not take that on, it's exactly the part we do.
Call (603) 660-2011 and tell us what's on order, where it's going up and when it's due. Have the drawings? Upload them with the form, because we read them before we give a number. The estimate is free: written for a whole kit, by phone if the job is small.
