Steel Erection Sheffield

Overview

Steel erection in Sheffield and across South Yorkshire

Engineering firms in the Don Valley add bays and platform steel to works that stay in production. In the centre, student and commercial schemes take light gauge walls and canopies, and the trade units off the M1 around Tinsley and Rotherham need portal frames and mezzanine floors. On many Sheffield plots the slope of the ground decides where the crane can stand.

We plan the lifts and erect the steel your fabricator makes. Our gangs work across the city and out to Chapeltown, Mosborough, Rotherham, Barnsley and Chesterfield. Email drawings and a few pictures of the plot, and a trade unit off the M1 can usually be priced before the end of the working day.

What steel erection covers

We stand the frame, bolt it up, bring it to line and level, and fit the bracing and secondary steel, along with LFS and SFS light gauge framing. Old bays come out of Don Valley works too, when a shop floor is laid out again. A works adding a bay can also have us sheet it and lift the new machine onto its base.

What we do

What we erect in Sheffield

Structure	Where it goes up	What sets the method
Access platforms and heavy plant support steel	Forge, press and machine shops in the Don Valley	Overhead cranes, furnaces and plant that keep running nearby
Bays and lean-tos on existing works	Attercliffe, Brightside and Tinsley	A survey of the old columns before any connection is detailed
Portal frames for trade and distribution units	Plots beside the M1 and around Rotherham	How many bays each crane set-up can reach
Light gauge framing and canopies	Student and commercial schemes in the centre	The floor order the envelope trades work to
Mezzanine floors	Warehouses and workshops across South Yorkshire	Loading door size and what the floor will carry
Frames dismantled for reuse	Works being cleared or reorganised	What keeps the remaining bays standing, and the match-marks

The full scope is on our steel erection and dismantling service page.

Sectors

Where we work in and around Sheffield

Sheffield steel goes up on sites like these.

Inside the forges and machine shops of the Don Valley

Operator platforms, walkways and heavy support steel for presses and process plant go into older works buildings, often under a low roof. See our plastics and metals page.

Trade parks beside the M1

New portal frame units, extensions and canopies over loading doors go up on open plots off the motorway. See our industrial sector page.

Hillside schemes near the universities

Canopies, light gauge infill and rooftop plant steel are erected on residential and teaching buildings between the centre and the university quarter, on cramped plots with little room at the kerb. See our construction sector page.

Roof decks for hospitals and research labs

Chiller platforms and access steel are added to hospital and laboratory buildings that stay open, with lifts booked around clinics and teaching hours. See our healthcare and pharma page.

Production floors for South Yorkshire food makers

Mezzanines and platforms for new lines go into food and drink plants in a shutdown, erected to the hygiene rules of each area. See our food and beverages page.

Substations and energy sites

Equipment frames and access platforms at substations and energy sites go up in the outage windows the operator gives us. See our power and renewables page.

Planning

Access and planning for steel erection in Sheffield

Before any steel is loaded for a Sheffield job, we settle these points:

• A lift plan ahead of the steel order. Our appointed person sets each crane position and what it can place, so your fabricator can load the trailers to match.
• Slopes and old ground. A sloping yard changes how the crane is levelled, and the valley floor hides culverts and old footings. Outrigger positions are checked and mats sized for each set-up.
• The Supertram and the council. Where the crane or a trailer needs part of a street, we apply to Sheffield City Council and run the traffic management and road closure. Near the Supertram, clearance from the overhead line, or an isolation, is agreed before the date.
• A frame that stands between shifts. The sequence leaves the steel stable whenever work stops, with raking props or guy wires on any bay whose permanent bracing comes later.
• Loads in the order they go up. On a works yard with little room to land steel, each trailer brings the next run of members and they are lifted straight off it.

Alterations

Alterations, mezzanines and dismantling

When new steel is bolted to a Sheffield works that keeps producing, we first look over the old columns and connections it will hang from. In a working machine shop in Darnall, where a crane cannot get in, members are lifted from the shop floor by the electric pick and carry crane.

A frame leaving one works to go up at another is match-marked member by member while it still stands. It then comes down in a sequence that keeps the remaining bays braced as each piece is freed.

Coverage

Postcodes and areas we cover

We cover every Sheffield S postcode and the South Yorkshire towns beyond it:

• Sheffield: city centre, Attercliffe, Darnall, Brightside, Tinsley, Hillsborough, Walkley, Nether Edge, Sharrow and Heeley
• South and east: Gleadless, Handsworth, Woodhouse, Mosborough, Halfway, Dore and Totley
• North: Chapeltown, Ecclesfield, Oughtibridge and Stocksbridge
• Wider area: Rotherham, Maltby, Wath-upon-Dearne, Barnsley, Eckington and Chesterfield

We erect steel right across the UK.

Why Synergy

Why Sheffield firms choose Synergy Lifting for steel erection

• Platforms around running plant. Walkways and operator platforms go in beside presses that stay in production.
• One team plans the lifts and erects the steel. The appointed person and the erectors work together, so the crane positions on paper are the ones used on site.
• New frames by the M1. Portal frames, canopies and mezzanines go up for trade and distribution firms on the parks off the motorway.
• Qualified and accredited. CPCS and CSCS carded operatives, lifts planned to BS 7121 by an appointed person, equipment inspected under LOLER and PUWER, SSIP approved, Constructionline Gold Member, certified to ISO 9001 and ISO 14001, and members of the Construction Plant-hire Association.

Services

More than steel erection

A Sheffield steel job can draw on more of our services:

• Crane hire in Sheffield
• Lift and shift in Sheffield
• Industrial plant dismantling in Sheffield
• Factory relocation in Sheffield
• Cladding and roofing
• Electric pick and carry crane hire
• Traffic management and road closures

Process

How a steel erection job works

1. 01

   You send the drawings and steel schedule, the site address and the dates in your programme.

2. 02

   We visit to fix the crane standings, check the ground and any slope, the way in for trailers, lay-down room and overhead cables.

3. 03

   A lift plan follows from the appointed person, with a method statement and risk assessment that set out temporary stability.

4. 04

   Your fabricator loads to a delivery order we agree together.

5. 05

   We erect the steel, brace it, check it for line and level, and pass the frame on to the following trade.

FAQs

Common questions