Function of the Structure Steel Detailer
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more closely. When with a structure steel fabricator, and assuming that the steelwork detailer works for the fabricator, their duties can be categorised as follows.
The first function is to prepare a list of steel materials from the layout drawings provided by the consulting engineer, enabling the contractor to reserve the items from stock or to place orders with steel merchants or steel mills.
The detailers proceed with the preparation of the steel detailing drawings, providing an accurate representation of components of structures, namely, beams, girders, , columns, bracings, stairways, platforms, rails, brackets, girts, purlins, etc., and where other structures such as bridges, towers, tanks, etc., are involved, these will follow broadly the same pattern. An experienced senior detailer must carefully supervise drawings and carefully scrutinize them as a checker. It is essential to correct the errors at this stage, as the correction of errors during fabrication in the shop or during erection on site will be infinitely more expensive.
Draughtsmen should be critical of their own work subconsciously acting as their own checker, to ensure that, to the best of their ability, their drawings are error-free. The detail drawings are sent to the fabrication shop, where work is put in hand, drawing the material from stock, cutting it to exact length, drilling or punching the necessary holes and assembling the various parts by means of bolting or welding to make up the components or subassemblies ready for transport to site.
The drawing office, whether using a manual system or computer aided facilities, must now proceed with the preparation of erection drawings, showing steel framework in skeleton. These drawings should be checked by the senior detailer and endorsed by a qualified structural engineer. The steel detailing services erector will refer to these drawings for the assembly of the structure on site. The position of each component is identified by a distinguishing erection mark. In the fabrication shop, such erection marks are hand- marked, painted or tagged onto the steel components.
All drawings are updated to incorporate any revisions that have occurred during the progress of the job and a complete set of prints is handed to the engineer for filing. These serve as a record of the work and are useful for future reference
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