Steel cut in Greenfield, set across New England
Bench notes from a New England steel shop
Structural steel fabrication and erection: beams, columns, decking, stairs and ornamental ironwork, cut in our Greenfield shop and set by our own crews across New England.
latest note · How AESS steel gets its finish, from the blast to the field touch-up
An AESS finish does not stop at the weld. How exposed steel is blast cleaned, primed and painted, fire coated or galvanized, judged against the mockup, and touched up after erection.
How a steel-framed hall goes up bay by bay when a single design-build contractor holds the job, and what changes for the erector on site.
A cope is cut metal removed from a beam's flange and web so the end can land past a flange it would otherwise hit. What the detail is doing, where it shows up on a drawing, and what it is not.
Beams, columns, metal decking, precast and shear studs set by our own ironworkers, from a school gym to a hospital wing.
Cut, coped, welded and painted in Greenfield: plate, angle, channel and bar to the drawing, with mill certs on file.
Stairs, rails, gates and grates: the small metal that finishes a building, drawn, built and set by the same crew.
The protocol
Architecturally Exposed Structural Steel is a note, a category and a viewing distance, not a grade of steel. What AESS 1 through AESS 4 actually change about a cut, a weld and a mill certificate.
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A mill certificate read at the bench before the saw: heat number, ASTM grade, yield and tensile, and what the paper does not prove about the plate under it.
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Top edge rounding, dross on the bottom, a few degrees of bevel and the kerf: what a plasma-cut edge records about the pass that made it, read at the bench.
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Two pulls of a 100 ft tape across one bay, the two numbers written side by side, and the difference that decides whether the deck goes on today.
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Root opening, bevel, root face and hi-lo, read with a taper gauge, a protractor and a caliper on one groove joint, with the numbers as they came off the bench.
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Shop notes on fabrication, plasma work, welding and the jobs that leave the yard
Erection notes from jobsites, cranes, decking and ironwork in the air
The work itself, hospitals, schools, garages and shops we helped stand up
What a New England steel crew learns about the trade, the codes and the weather
Notes kept by other shops that follow trades, tools and the work itself, each read before it ran here.
For the metalwork side of the trade, the bench reads a forge that keeps historic ironwork alive, from hand-forged rails to reproduction hardware.
On the bench itself, a catalog of the hand tools that dress bench work is worth the read before the next fit-up.
And for the yard side, notes on how shops store and handle heavy stock keep our own plate racks honest.
Parish & Pew reports on how mainline Protestant congregations share their faith, welcome newcomers and form members, with practical notes on evangelism resources, congregational life and the lectionary year.
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The archived pages of a Russian crewing agency in Nakhodka set out its tanker, dry cargo and gas carrier vacancies, its training centre, and the history of a fleet built from the Far-Eastern Shipping Corporation.
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