Steel Erection Newcastle

Packages

Steel + more

Cladding, roofing and demolition too

Coverage

Newcastle

NE postcodes

Quotes

Same day

For most enquiries

Overview

Steel erection in Newcastle and across Tyneside

Contractors on the Quayside, in Grainger Town and across the city centre need infill framing, canopies and rooftop plant steel lifted in on busy streets with offices and flats alongside. South of the river, manufacturers on Team Valley and the estates around it add bays and mezzanines, and engineering firms either side of the Tyne extend their halls.

On Team Valley most of it is portal frames and mezzanines, and a new hall there can be many bays long. In the city centre it is more often infill framing a few floors high between existing buildings. The gangs cover Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead, Wallsend and North Shields, out to Cramlington and Ponteland and north into Northumberland. For a single-bay shed, drawings and a few site photographs are enough for a quote on the day they reach us.

What steel erection covers

Our gang stands the frame your fabricator supplies, bolts it, lines and levels it, and adds bracing, secondary steel and light gauge LFS or SFS walling. Steel already standing can be taken down when a riverside hall is being cleared.

What we do

What we erect in Newcastle

Structure	Where it goes up	What sets the method
Light gauge infill walling	City-centre and Quayside schemes built around a concrete or steel frame	Loading-out platforms and the floor sequence
Rooftop plant decks	Offices, hospitals and university buildings taking new chillers	What the roof below will carry
Extra bays and lean-tos	Manufacturing units on Team Valley	Where the new rafters meet the old gable
Mezzanines for stock and picking	Distribution and trade units across Gateshead	Headroom under the haunches and the route through the doors
Hall extensions	Fabrication and engineering works on the Tyne	Which bays the works can give up while the steel goes in
Frames dismantled for reuse	Units being cleared or reorganised	Release order and match-marking

Read more on the steel erection and dismantling service page.

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 0191 622 2567

Sectors

Where we work in and around Newcastle

Across Tyneside, frames and platform steel go up in these settings.

Infill and canopies from Haymarket to the Quayside

LFS walling, entrance canopies and rooftop plant steel go onto commercial and residential schemes across the centre after the main structure has gone up. See our construction sector page.

Bays and mezzanines on Team Valley

New bays, lean-tos and mezzanine floors are added for manufacturers and distribution firms on Team Valley and neighbouring Gateshead estates, with the units carrying on trading. See our industrial sector page.

Hall steel on the north and south banks

Extensions and access platforms are erected for fabrication, engineering and offshore firms beside the river, planned around work in the halls. See our maritime and power and renewables pages.

Chiller steel on hospital and university roofs

Support steel for chillers and air handling units, and walkways to reach them, go up on healthcare, university and college buildings that stay open, at times the estates teams set. See our healthcare and pharma and education pages.

Lineside frames on the main line and the Metro

Equipment frames and access platforms go in beside the East Coast Main Line and on the Metro, erected in the hours a possession gives. See our rail sector page.

Planning

Access and planning for steel erection in Newcastle

These points decide how a Newcastle frame goes up:

Temporary bracing designed in. The sequence leaves a stable part-frame whenever work stops. Where the permanent bracing follows later, temporary braces or guys are written into the method.
Two councils either side of the Tyne. Road or pavement space on the north bank comes from Newcastle City Council and on the south bank from Gateshead Council. We make the application and set out the traffic management and road closure. Bus lanes and pedestrianised streets in the centre narrow the choice of crane position.
Lifting from the trailer bed. A city plot with nowhere to set steel down takes each load in erection order in a booked slot, and every member goes straight from the wagon to the frame.
Gusts on the upper floors. A large LFS panel or a long purlin swings in a gust that would not trouble a column, so panel lifts wait on the supervisor’s wind reading at height.
Quays and cellars. Riverside land was often built up behind old quay walls, and cellars run under many city pavements, so each crane position is checked before mats and outrigger pads are sized.

Alterations

Alterations, mezzanines and dismantling

Before new steel goes into a building still in use, we survey the frame it will tie into. Inside, out of a crane’s reach, a mezzanine for a Team Valley unit goes up while the business keeps packing orders around the gang.

Taking a frame down follows a sequence planned around the steel that stays, releasing each member once the rest can stand without it. Members going back up are match-marked before the bolts come out, and the marks follow the original erection drawing.

Coverage

Postcodes and areas we cover

We cover every NE postcode, including:

NE1 to NE7: Newcastle city centre and the Quayside, Jesmond, Gosforth, Heaton, Byker and Walker
NE8 to NE13: Gateshead, Team Valley, Dunston, Longbenton, Killingworth and Wideopen
NE15 to NE24: Denton, Throckley, Ponteland, Cramlington and Blyth
NE25 to NE38: Whitley Bay, Tynemouth, North Shields, South Shields, Jarrow, Hebburn and Washington
NE61 to NE71: Morpeth, Ashington, Alnwick and north Northumberland

We erect steel right across the UK.

Why Synergy

Why Newcastle firms choose Synergy Lifting for steel erection

Crane plan and bolt-up in the same hands. The appointed person who positions the crane works alongside the gang that erects, so reach and sequence line up.
Extra bays for Gateshead manufacturers. Manufacturers and distributors on Team Valley get extensions, lean-tos and mezzanines from us.
Steel for city-centre schemes. Contractors on the Quayside and in Grainger Town get infill walling, canopies and rooftop plant steel from us.
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 Newcastle steel package can include:

Process

How a steel erection job works

Tell us where the site is and when the steel must be up, and attach the drawings.
On site we mark out crane positions and check the ground, the delivery route, lay-down space and any overhead lines.
The lift plan follows from our appointed person, with a method statement and risk assessment showing temporary stability at each break.
Your fabricator sends the loads out in the order we will erect them, agreed between us beforehand.
Steel then goes up bay by bay, and the frame is braced, lined and levelled before the following trade takes it on.

FAQs

Common questions

Our Quayside scheme needs LFS walling on every floor. How do the bundles get up there?

Bundles arrive in erection order on booked deliveries and go straight from the trailer to a loading platform on the right floor. Where the crane needs road space, the lift goes in an evening or on a Sunday.

Our Team Valley unit needs an extra bay. Can we keep trading from it?

Yes. The new bay goes up outside the existing gable and the opening into the building is made once the bay is sheeted, so the unit stays closed in until the tie-in. The crane stands clear of your yard traffic wherever the plot allows.

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.