Waikato Steel Fabricators
Meeting the structural steel standard Structural steel is at the heart of every large construction project in New Zealand, where living on a major fault line means getting it right is critical. Waikato Steel Fabricators is committed to ensuring it produces only the highest quality structural steel manufactured according to international best practice.
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There are 30 certified fabricators in New Zealand but we are pushing for all clients, engineers and councils to ensure they specify and require that the structural steel for their projects is done through a certified fabricator.
The Hamilton-based company has been fabricating steel since the early 1990s and today runs a professional structural steel fabrication shop, offering services from planning and design through to manufacture and installation for residential, commercial and industrial requirements. Waikato Steel Fabricators (WSF) has achieved Steel Fabricator Certification (SFC) to construction category 3. This certification ensures certified New Zealand fabricators procure, fabricate and provide quality assured structural steelwork according to international best practice. Commercial manager Tertius Terblanche says the company is pushing hard to protect New Zealand’s structural steel industry by becoming a certified fabricator. “We are pursuing to get the quality as high as we can, all as per the industry standards and requirements,” he says. Earthquakes around New Zealand in recent years have highlighted requirement for the assurance that all new builds meet the best requirements and standards and by using a certified fabricator the client is just doing that. “There are 30 certified fabricators in New Zealand but we are pushing for all clients, engineers and councils to ensure they specify and require that the structural steel for their projects is done through a certified fabricator. “It’s about keeping our industry alive and keeping overseas fabricated steel requirements high.
- Waikato Steel Fabricators commercial manager, Tertius Terblanche
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“We are promoting sourcing locally fabricated steel at the highest quality. By doing so we make clients aware that if they do end up importing their fabricated steel, they make sure it’s up to the quality that New Zealand requires.” Waikato Steel Fabricators is also leading the industry in fabricating and erecting to the new structural steel standard AS/NZS 5131 released earlier this year. “The older standards AS/NZS 3404 (2009) has recently been replaced by a new standard fabrication and erection Standard AS/NZS 5131. The standard now clearly stipulates fabrication, erection and quality standards,” Tertius says.
Waikato Steel Fabricators has achieved Steel Fabricator Certification (SFC) to construction category 3.
“We have got the certification to prove we’re doing everything correctly. If you do get overseas fabricated steel, you must make sure it meets the standard.”
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Structural steel under construction at Waikato Steel Fabricators’ Hamilton facility.
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