Entrance canopies, reception stairs, office balustrades, steel framed screens and handrails for factories, warehouses and offices in Thetford. Feature steel that looks right to visitors and stands up to a working site, made in Norwich and fitted around your shifts.
Thetford, about 30 miles down the A11 from Norwich.
Commercial architectural steel
Customers, auditors and new recruits all judge a business by its entrance, its reception and its offices.
Thetford is a manufacturing and food town, with large sites on Fison Way, Brunel Way and the Thetford Enterprise Park and logistics sheds along the A11. Most steel on those sites is purely functional. But when a unit is refurbished, offices go in above the shop floor or a new tenant wants a proper entrance, the job becomes architectural metalwork, and Swift Fabrication can make it.
It is made in mild or stainless steel to drawings from your architect, fit out contractor or facilities team. On an industrial site the piece has two jobs: look tidy, and survive pallet trucks, wash downs and heavy boots. So we talk about section sizes, kick plates and fixings as well as appearance. If the steel carries load, the numbers come from your structural engineer.
Machinery installation in Thetford
Looks and hard daily use
Agreed before work begins
About 30 miles down the A11
For Thetford premises
A refurbished unit, a new office block on the estate or a mezzanine office over the shop floor all need some steel that visitors see. It tends to be one of three kinds.
A canopy over the main door or the staff entrance, a framed porch for reception, handrails beside steps and ramps, posts and brackets for signs. Usually mild steel, galvanised and powder coated in your company colour, with the coating arranged by us. Larger canopies follow your engineer's details.
When offices sit above the shop floor, the stair up to them is the one visitors use. It is made as stringers, treads and balustrade panels in Norwich, with timber-ready or chequer plate treads and glass or steel infill, then put together on your site.
Glazed steel screens between office and factory, meeting room frames, brackets for timber worktops, bench and table frames for canteens and break rooms. Stainless where the area gets washed down, coated mild steel elsewhere.
Working on a live Thetford site
Most of the work happens in our workshop, which keeps disruption at your place short. To price it we need the drawings or a marked up photo, the sizes, the material and the finish. Tell us about site rules too: inductions, permits for hot work, hygiene zones, and when the area can be handed over.
Estimating is free and a price is agreed before anything is made. We come to Thetford to measure wherever steel meets an existing floor, wall or opening. RAMS are provided for the site work, and fitting can be booked for a weekend, a night or a shutdown if that is the only time the entrance or stair can be closed off.
Fit out contractors: send the programme with the drawings. We will say which dates we can meet and which we cannot, before you commit.
No fit out designer?
Plenty of site managers know what they want but have nothing drawn. Walk round with a phone, photograph the doorway or the stair position and jot down the main sizes. From that we can suggest sections, fixings and a coating, and help develop bespoke metalwork that is practical to make and to get into the building.
Swift Fabrication is the maker, not the certifier. Should your canopy, stair or guard rail need calculations or Building Control approval, your engineer or designer provides them and we work to their details.
What to include in an enquiryNorwich to Thetford on the A11
Thetford lies south west of our Norwich workshop, and the A11 makes it a simple run with a loaded van or a HIAB lorry. We fit on Fison Way, Brunel Way and the Enterprise Park, in the town centre, and out at Brandon, Croxton, Mundford and Watton. That takes in the Norfolk and Suffolk border country around Thetford Forest.
Other steelwork needed on the same site? Platforms, guarding, machine bases and repairs can be looked at on the same visit, which saves you a second trip charge.
All Thetford servicesThetford fit out questions
Out of hours fitting, hygiene areas, site paperwork and lead times, answered plainly.
Yes, by arrangement. Nights, weekends and shutdown weeks are all possible if you book them with us in advance. Because the steel is made in Norwich first, time on your site is mostly fixing and finishing.
Yes. Risk assessments and method statements are provided for the installation, and we follow your induction and permit rules, hot work permits included. If the site calls for a particular welder coding, tell us and we will confirm what we can supply.
Yes. We fabricate and TIG weld stainless steel and can dress joints smooth so they are easy to clean. Give us the grade and surface finish your hygiene team specifies. Anything going into a production area is made to your drawings and site rules.
Happily. We can be a subcontractor to your main contractor or shopfitter, or work for you direct. Supply only is an option if your own fitters are installing.
A small door canopy on brackets may not, but a large one on posts, or anything fixed through cladding, usually does. Your engineer or building designer decides. We can fabricate the structural supports with the visible frame.
Structural steel in ThetfordMade by Swift Fabrication
Send the drawings or a few photos with sizes, or call 07495 409006. You will get a free estimate for architectural metalwork in Thetford and an idea of when we could fit it.
