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September 16, 2018

Structural Steel Detailing: Taking a deeper dive into the process

 

With population explosion and extreme urbanization, town planning ideas are shifting more towards vertical expansion of buildings to accommodate the increasing density. As a result, the building designs have become more complex and demand stronger structures that can bear the loads of multi-storey designs and heavy dead and live loads. It clearly points to strength the structural steel detailing process to impart immense strength to the building structures.

Who use steel detailing?   

Steel detailers and structural engineers work in a collaborative environment of Tekla to develop structural steel drawings, shop drawings and fabrication drawings for imparting necessary strength to buildings. Another aim of these Tekla detailers is to create a better coordination between structural steel designer, engineer, steel detailer, steel fabricator and the contractor.

These professionals in building construction industry, oil and gas industry, infrastructure development and industrial plant construction are the major consumers of steel detailing services either in-house or outsourced to specialized steel detailing companies. 

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Preparing steel frames for building construction and plant erection are the major applications for steel detailing services. For oil and gas, reinforcement detailing of offshore rigs for maintenance and delivering structural steel drawings for connections, GA drawings, BOMs etc. for pipes and tray support.  

About the process of steel detailing   

With the advancement and continued innovations in the structural industry, the demand of the structural steel detailing is increasing day by day. Structural steel is one of the most preferred materials used in almost all of the structural and architectural projects. To impart a definite structure to the project, steel detailing is an utmost necessity.

Today, the integration of the three dimensional modeling technology with the structural detailing has proved to be very helpful for both the project engineers and the clients, in accurately visualizing the completed project designs. Hi-Tech CADD Services is one of the best engineering firms providing structural steel detailing services.

The different software used in the structural steel detailing includes Tekla Structures, STADDPro, etc. Outsourcing agencies are being able to render structural steel detailing services to the clients with a fast turnaround time and integration of such remarkable software and highly efficient design structural designing tools.

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