Steel Erection Aberdeen

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Steel + more

Cladding, roofing and demolition too

Coverage

Aberdeen

AB postcodes

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Overview

Steel erection in Aberdeen and across Aberdeenshire

Firms supplying the offshore and subsea industry keep adding space in Aberdeen: workshop bays at Altens, Tullos and Kirkhill, lean-to extensions at Bridge of Don and Westhill, and platform steel inside the halls where equipment is built. Fish and farm processors put in mezzanines, and central schemes take canopies and light gauge framing.

Portal frame units are the other staple, and we supply the cranes for the bigger frames the energy firms want, such as a two-storey office and stores block beside a test hall. Work runs from Dyce down to Torry, west to Westhill and out to Inverurie, Ellon and Stonehaven. A single-span unit on a clear plot at Kirkhill can often be priced the same working day from drawings and a few site photographs.

What steel erection covers

Your fabricator makes the steel, and our gang stands it: columns and rafters, bolting up, lining and levelling, bracing and secondary steel, with LFS and SFS framing where the design calls for it. We also take existing frames apart for reconfiguration or reuse. If the new bay needs sheeting, or a test rig lifted onto its platform, that goes on the same job as the frame.

What we do

What we erect in Aberdeen

Structure	Where it goes up	What sets the method
Fabrication hall extensions	Energy supply chain yards at Altens and Tullos	Tying into the existing hall with the yard open
Portal frame units	Plots at Kirkhill and Westhill	How many bays each crane standing covers
Mezzanines and plant floors	Fish and farm processing halls	Hygiene zones and the doorway members use
Platforms and equipment support steel	Assembly and service halls	Overhead cranes and equipment that stays in place
Canopies and light gauge framing	City-centre schemes	Which levels the crane can serve at each stage
Frames dismantled for reuse	Yards being reorganised or vacated	Match-marking, and keeping the other bays standing

The steel erection and dismantling page sets out the full service.

Get a quote

Tell us about your project

Send us the details and we will come back with a quote, usually the same day for a desktop survey.

Or call 01224 003 165

Sectors

Where we work in and around Aberdeen

Aberdeen steel sits mostly on the city’s industrial ground.

Energy and subsea supply yards

Workshop bays, hall extensions and yard canopies go up for firms that build and test offshore equipment, often bolted onto an older hall on the same yard. See our industrial sector page.

Sheds and canopies around the harbour

Storage sheds, loading canopies and access platforms for businesses along the quays go up on permit, timed around berthing vessels. See our maritime sector page.

Processing halls from Torry to Peterhead

Mezzanines and plant floors are fitted into fish and farm processing halls to their hygiene rules, in short shutdowns. See our food and beverages page.

Kirkhill, Dyce and the northern estates

New portal frame units rise on the estates north of the Don, where plots leave room to track a crane along the building. See our construction sector page.

Offshore wind and oil and gas decommissioning

Firms supplying offshore wind, and those handling oil and gas decommissioning, take support steel and storage sheds, and yard frames come down for reuse when a layout changes. See our power and renewables page.

Granite streets in the centre

Canopies, light gauge infill and small frames go up on commercial and residential schemes between the granite buildings of the centre, usually with the crane working from the street.

Planning

Access and planning for steel erection in Aberdeen

Each of these is settled before the first Aberdeen column is stood:

Gusts on the coastal yards. Exposed yards near the sea lose lifting days to wind, and large LFS panels and light purlins are grounded in gusts a crane would shrug off. The supervisor checks the forecast against each morning’s lifts.
What is under the outriggers. Land near the harbour was reclaimed, and many older yards have been resurfaced layer on layer, so the bearing at each crane position is proved and the mats sized from it.
A frame that holds itself. Wherever work pauses, the part-built frame stands without help, with temporary braces or guys until the permanent bracing is in.
Trailers on the A90 and A96. Steel arrives via the Western Peripheral Route packed to the lift plan’s sequence, so on a yard with no lay-down the crane lifts straight off the bed.
Road space from the right council. Closures inside the city go through Aberdeen City Council, and those at Westhill, Inverurie and across the shire through Aberdeenshire Council. We apply and put out the traffic management and road closure.

Alterations

Alterations, mezzanines and dismantling

A service workshop at Dyce wanting a platform over its test area is typical: the hall stays in use, and we survey the existing frame before any new steel is detailed to join it. Out of a crane’s reach, members come in through the roller door and go up on gantries and jacks or our electric pick and carry crane, which puts no exhaust into the hall.

Frames come down too, usually when a yard is being laid out again. We work out which members can go first without leaving the rest unsupported, hold each one on the crane while its bolts are drawn, and match-mark anything that is going back up in the new layout.

Coverage

Postcodes and areas we cover

We cover every AB postcode and the districts around the city:

Aberdeen: city centre, Ferryhill, Mannofield, Torry, Northfield, Bridge of Don and Dyce
Industrial and harbour areas: Altens, Tullos, Kirkhill and the harbour estate
Aberdeenshire: Westhill, Kintore, Inverurie, Stonehaven, Banchory and Ellon
Wider area: Peterhead, Fraserburgh, Elgin and Montrose

We erect steel right across the UK.

Why Synergy

Why Aberdeen firms choose Synergy Lifting for steel erection

Frames for engineering and subsea yards. New bays and platforms go up beside halls where equipment is still being built and tested.
Mezzanines for processors. Seafood and farm processors get plant floors put in during a planned stop.
The crew on the slings bolts the steel up. Lift plan and erection sequence are drawn up together, and whoever rigs a member stays with it until it is fixed.
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

Other work of ours that fits alongside an Aberdeen steel job:

Process

How a steel erection job works

Our starting point is your drawings and steel schedule, the site location and the weeks the programme gives the steel.
A lift planner looks over the site: crane standings, ground, the trailer approach, somewhere to put steel down, overhead lines.
The appointed person’s lift plan comes out of that visit, with a method statement and risk assessment showing how each stage stays stable.
Our erection sequence goes to your fabricator, who makes up the trailers to follow it.
Our erectors stand and brace the steel, line and level it, and hand the finished frame to the trade that comes next.

FAQs

Common questions

We are leaving a yard at Altens and want its workshop frame put back up at Westhill. Can you handle both ends?

Yes. The frame is match-marked and taken down in a planned sequence at Altens, then re-erected at Westhill once the new bases are ready. Your engineer confirms any changes the new plot needs.

Our new unit at Kirkhill is on an open plot. What happens on a windy day?

Light members and large panels stop first. Columns and rafters can often go up in wind that grounds cladding rails, so the sequence keeps heavy steel ready for those days.

Who plans the lifts?

We do. An appointed person plans every lift to BS 7121: where the crane stands, what it can place from each position, and how the frame stays stable at every break in the work. The same gang then rigs and erects to that plan.

Can you erect steel where a crane cannot reach?

Yes. Mezzanines and internal platforms go up with gantries, jacking equipment and our electric pick and carry crane, which works indoors without fumes. The steel comes in through a door and is lifted into place inside the building.