Structural steel for new homes and commercial builds in Wymondham, made in Norwich ten miles up the A11 and installed to your programme. Plot beams, goalpost frames, unit frames and mezzanines for site managers who need dates kept.
Wymondham, about 10 miles south west of us on the A11.
Steel installation for new builds
On a housing site the steel is a small package, but every trade behind it is waiting for it to go in.
Swift Fabrication offers steel erection in Wymondham for housebuilders, main contractors and local builders. With so many new homes going up round the town, and units being added along the A11, there is steady call for beams, frames and columns set in place on the day the brickwork or the slab is ready for them.
We work as a subcontractor in the ordinary way. You send the engineer's drawings and the programme. Back comes a price, a lead time for fabrication and the dates we can install. Steel can be called off plot by plot or phase by phase, so it is not lying about on site getting damaged or in the way of other trades.
Structural steel in Wymondham
From order to handover
Approval, delivery, completion. You get all three in writing with the price, and an early warning if anything upstream puts them at risk.
Working from the structural drawings we prepare fabrication details and send them to you for approval. Once signed off, the steel is made, primed or galvanised as specified, and marked by plot or gridline. You call it off when the site is ready.
Deliveries are booked to suit your traffic plan and unloading slot. If the site telehandler and its operator are free, lifts are planned around them. If not, we hire what the job needs. Beams go onto padstones or into pockets, columns onto their bolts.
Connections are bolted and tightened, levels checked against the drawing, and the site manager walks the work with us. Photographs and a note of what was fitted follow, which helps with your own quality file.
Steel in Wymondham's new housing
Modern house types are full of steel: beams over wide patio openings, goalpost frames for open plan ground floors, bay window posts, wind posts in long walls, ridge beams and steel for rooms in the roof.
Each piece is modest, but a missing beam stops the bricklayers and the joists behind them. We make house type sets in batches and label every piece with plot and position. A smaller builder in Wymondham with a single plot gets the same treatment on a smaller scale.
RAMS are issued before we set foot on site. Send your induction, PPE and permit rules with the enquiry so there are no surprises at the gate.
Commercial builds beside the A11
Gateway 11, Ayton Road and Browick Road keep adding and altering units. On a new build we erect the portal frame, purlins and cladding rails ahead of the cladders. In an existing unit it is more often a mezzanine, a new opening in the gable or support steel for plant. Engineering firms round Hethel need much the same.
On a managed site we attend your coordination meetings when asked, follow your permit system and keep to the agreed working area. If the slab or the bolts are running late, tell us as soon as you know and we will reshuffle.
Machinery installation in WymondhamSouth Norfolk
Wymondham is the closest town to our Norwich base after the city itself. That matters on a programme job: a forgotten cleat or a late design change can be made and brought out the short way. We also cover Hethersett, Hingham, Mulbarton and the villages towards Attleborough.
For a price, send the structural drawings, the architect's plans, your programme and the site address. Say whether you want supply only or supply and fix, what finish is specified and whether plant is available on site. The estimate is free, and the price is agreed before fabrication starts.
Steel fabrication in WymondhamContractor questions
Yes. Give us the programme with the enquiry and we will tell you what lead time the steel needs and which dates we can meet. If your dates move, as they do, let us know early. We would sooner hold finished steel in the workshop for a week than deliver it to a plot that is not ready.
Either. Some housebuilders want labelled beams dropped at each plot for their own bricklayers and telehandler to place. Others want us to fit the lot. For frames with bolted connections, columns and anything at height, we recommend we install.
If it suits the load and the reach, and your operator is available, yes. It saves you money and avoids two machines on a tight plot. We check the lift against the machine's load chart first. Where it will not do, we arrange hire of a bigger telehandler or a crane for the day.
Yes, and Mulbarton, Hethel and the other South Norfolk villages round Wymondham. All are a short run from our workshop, so visits to measure or check bases are easy to fit in.
Steel erection, Wymondham
Send the drawings and your programme. We will come back with a free estimate, a fabrication lead time and the install dates we can offer.