Structural steel fabrication for the Ellough estate, Beccles Business Park and farms along the Waveney valley. Beams, columns and portal frames made to your engineer's drawings in Norwich, delivered over the border to Suffolk.
Beccles, about 18 miles south east of Norwich, via the A146.
From drawing to steel in Beccles
An estate at Ellough or a barn near the Waveney needs steel that turns up when it is promised, not sometime after.
Based in Norwich, Swift Fabrication sends structural steel out along the A146 into Beccles. Builders, farmers and the businesses on Ellough Industrial Estate and Beccles Business Park all come to us, and every job starts from your structural engineer's own drawing.
Design and certification sit with your structural engineer, not us, section sizes, connections and the calculations all come from their drawing. What we bring is the fabrication itself, plus a hand in working out details that make the steel practical to build and fit. If installation is wanted too, our own crew can deliver and erect it on site at Beccles.
See how we work, step by step
Beams, portal frames, columns
Free estimate, agreed price
Beccles and the Waveney
Steelwork for Ellough and beyond
Cut, drilled and welded to the drawing every time, these are the jobs we see most often from farms and units around Beccles, running from a lone beam up to a complete frame.
Houses around Beccles need steel beams for an extension, a knock-through or a loft conversion, cut to length in UB and UC sections. We also build goalpost and box frames, columns on baseplates, lintels, end plates and cleats where access is tight.
Farms and light industrial units across the Waveney valley need frames built for the job, portal frames, columns, rafters, purlins and cladding rails among them. On Ellough and Beccles Business Park we also build mezzanine floors for extra storage or production space, stairs and handrails included.
Units on Ellough Industrial Estate often need plant platforms, walkways with handrails, pipe supports or a new machine base. Where the steel has to work around existing plant, pipework or the bones of an old airfield building, we measure it on site first.
A free estimate comes from the engineer's drawings you send us. Once that price is agreed, dimensions get checked, and where the steel meets an existing barn or building near Beccles we measure on site before confirming sections and hole positions.
Cutting, drilling and welding happen in our Norwich workshop, with a trial fit where connections are involved, and priming as standard. Paint, galvanising or powder coating can be arranged on top. From there it travels the A146 to Beccles, HIAB lorry for heavier loads, and our own team can line it up, level it and bolt it down, on the old airfield or out on a farm.
Tell us about access before delivery day. Farm tracks, narrow lanes and soft ground around Beccles all change how steel gets onto site.
Plan your Beccles order
Steel tends to hold everything else up. A shed near Beccles cannot be finished until its portal frame turns up, and a unit on Ellough cannot be fitted out until the mezzanine goes in. Get your programme to us early and fabrication gets planned around it.
We need the engineer's drawings, your site address, the finish wanted and the dates you are working to. If a particular standard or welder coding applies, say so and we will confirm what we can provide. Treat an enquiry as a request for pricing, not a firm order.
Request a fabrication quoteA little preparation
The structural engineer's drawing and calculation sheet come first, section sizes, lengths and connections all shown. Photos of the site help too, along with access down farm tracks or estate roads, floor levels and any limit on lifting. Working from just a sketch? Send it over and we will tell you what else we need.
Structural steel from us reaches Beccles, Worlingham, Bungay and Loddon up and down the Waveney, and carries on to Lowestoft along the same road, as well as Norwich, Great Yarmouth, Thetford, Dereham and the rest of East Anglia.
Read our fabrication checklistBefore you order
Practical answers on drawings, lead times, finishes and delivery for a Beccles job.
Browse all fabrication FAQsTiming comes down to the job's size, the sections involved and how busy the workshop is. A single beam moves quicker than a full portal frame destined for an Ellough unit. Share your drawings and programme dates and we will hand you a realistic delivery date up front.
Yes, single beams for an extension or a knock-through are as much our work as a complete frame, whether the customer is a homeowner or a farmer near Beccles. Pricing it properly needs the section size and length from your structural engineer, along with any end plate or splice detail.
Sizing steel is a job for your structural engineer, not us, and Building Control will usually expect to see their calculations. Once the drawing exists, we build to it, and can suggest practical tweaks, splitting a beam so it fits down a farm track, for instance.
See how we work from a drawingSteel stays uncut until you have a free estimate and have agreed the price. Should the drawings change afterwards, we let you know what that does to the cost before touching any steel destined for your Beccles job.
Installing and erecting structural steelwork around Beccles and the Waveney valley is part of what our team does, whether that is a lone beam going into an existing house or a full portal frame going up on Ellough. Plant gets planned for the lift, and RAMS are provided for working alongside your builder.
Steel erection in BecclesWe need the engineer's drawings, the site address, the finish wanted and your target date, plus photographs of the site and whatever the farm track or estate access looks like. Everything else is covered in our quote checklist, so your Beccles estimate is not held up.
See the quote checklistMore work around Beccles
Swift Fabrication Services
Get your engineer's drawings to us with the site address and target dates, and we will price your Beccles structural steel from the Norwich workshop as a free estimate.
