Steel Erection Nottingham

Packages

Steel + more

Cladding, roofing and demolition too

Coverage

Nottingham

NG postcodes

Quotes

Same day

For most enquiries

Overview

Steel erection in Nottingham and across Nottinghamshire

Engineering and food businesses moving onto the Colwick, Blenheim and Lenton estates need frames put up, and hospitals and universities add plant steel or an extra floor inside buildings that stay open. Along the tram routes, the overhead line fixes where a crane can stand.

On the estates it is portal frames, mezzanines and canopies, and a food business moving onto Colwick may want a whole production hall framed. We work from Beeston and Clifton up to Arnold and Hucknall, and further out at Long Eaton, Mansfield and Newark-on-Trent. Send drawings and a few site photographs for an estate unit and the price usually reaches you the same working day.

What steel erection covers

We erect steel made by your fabricator: the frame, bolting up, lining and levelling, bracing, secondary steel and LFS or SFS framing. Existing frames can be taken down too, when a Lenton unit is being refitted. Cladding, roofing and machinery installation are available in the same package.

What we do

What we erect in Nottingham

Structure	Where it goes up	What sets the method
Portal frame units and workshops	New plots on the Colwick, Blenheim and Lenton estates	The number of crane set-ups, and which bay is braced first
Mezzanines and storage floors	Food and trade units that keep working	The door the members come through and the slab under each column
Plant support steel and access platforms	Hospital and university roof decks, laboratory and process buildings	Live pipework and ducts around each new member
Extensions and added bays	Against a factory, laboratory or teaching building	Connection details on the existing frame, checked on site
Canopies and light gauge framing	City-centre schemes and loading bays	Reach from one crane position
Frames taken down for reuse	Units being reconfigured or emptied	What stays standing as each member is released, and match-marking

Each stage is set out on our 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 0115 718 6042

Sectors

Where we work in and around Nottingham

Nottingham steel comes from new build and from buildings that stay open.

Fresh plots at Colwick, Blenheim and Lenton

Portal frame units, workshops and extensions go up for engineering and trade businesses once the holding-down bolts are in. See our industrial sector page.

Plant decks on healthcare buildings

Chiller and air handling support steel and access walkways go in on hospital buildings, with the wards running and hours set by the estates team. See our healthcare and pharma page.

Life science firms around Beeston

Extensions and internal platforms are added to life science buildings around Beeston, with each member brought in on a route clear of the clean areas. See our healthcare and pharma page.

Mezzanines and platforms for universities and colleges

Universities and colleges across the city add mezzanines and plant platforms, with the steel going up in the vacation. See our education sector page.

Frames and canopies in the centre

Frames, canopies and infill framing for student, residential and commercial schemes go up on central plots and around the Lace Market. See our construction sector page.

Substations, rail and water sites

Platforms and equipment frames go in at substations, rail sites and water treatment works across the county, inside outage and possession windows. See our power and renewables and rail sector pages.

Planning

Access and planning for steel erection in Nottingham

On a Nottingham frame, these shape the method before the first column goes up:

Ground by the Trent. Low-lying plots at Colwick and elsewhere beside the river can be made ground or soft, so mats are sized to the outrigger load at each crane position.
Wagons loaded to the sequence. Members come off the trailer in the order they are erected. On a tight Lenton yard with nowhere to set steel down, each delivery slot is booked around the crane.
Bracing at every stop. Every break in the work leaves a stable part-frame, with temporary bracing or guys designed in where the permanent bracing follows later.
Wind on panels and light members. A large LFS panel or a slender purlin can become unsafe to lift in a breeze the crane itself would handle easily, so the day’s lifts are checked against the forecast.
Closures near the tram. Where a crane or wagon needs part of the road, we apply to Nottingham City Council, or to Nottinghamshire County Council outside the city boundary, and provide the traffic management and road closure. On streets the tram uses, including its routes to Hucknall, Clifton and Toton, the overhead line clearance or an isolation is agreed first.

Alterations

Alterations, mezzanines and dismantling

Plenty of Nottingham steel goes into buildings that carry on working, such as a trade unit in Bulwell. Before new steel bolts onto old, we survey the existing frame. A Bulwell unit rarely has a yard a crane could use, so members come in through the loading door and are lifted inside.

Steel also comes down. Frames being reconfigured or moved are taken apart in a sequence that keeps the rest stable as each member is released, and members due to go back up are match-marked first.

Coverage

Postcodes and areas we cover

We cover every NG postcode and the Nottinghamshire districts around it:

Nottingham: city centre, the Lace Market, Lenton, Basford, Bulwell, Bilborough, Sherwood and Sneinton
Around the city: Colwick, Beeston, Arnold, West Bridgford, Wilford, Clifton, Hucknall and Kimberley
The county: Mansfield, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Eastwood, Cotgrave, Bingham, Radcliffe on Trent, Southwell and Newark-on-Trent
Wider area: Long Eaton, Loughborough, Grantham, Worksop and Retford

We erect steel right across the UK.

Why Synergy

Why Nottingham firms choose Synergy Lifting for steel erection

Frames for the estate businesses. Engineering, food and trade firms on the estates around the city get portal frames, extensions and mezzanine floors from us.
Lift plan and erection from one team. The appointed person planning the lifts works with the operatives bolting up, so crane positions and the erection sequence agree.
Steel kept for your next unit. A mezzanine or small frame leaving a Nottingham unit comes down match-marked, so it can be put back up at the new address.
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

Steel projects in Nottingham can also call on:

Process

How a steel erection job works

Start us off with the drawings, the steel schedule, where the site is and when the frame needs to be up.
A visit to the plot shows crane positions, ground, wagon access, lay-down and any overhead cables.
Next come the lift plan from our appointed person and a method statement and risk assessment that cover temporary stability.
The delivery order is agreed with your fabricator, so each wagon is loaded in the order we erect.
The gang stands, braces, lines and levels the frame, then hands over to the next trade.

FAQs

Common questions

Our new unit at Colwick is on low ground near the Trent. Will that affect the crane?

It changes the set-up. We check what the ground carries at each crane position and size the mats to spread the load. Send any ground report with the drawings.

Our steel goes into a university building over the summer. Will it fit the vacation?

We plan back from the date the building reopens, with the lift plan and delivery order settled before term ends. At quote stage you hear whether the window is long enough.

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.