Steel Fabrication

Steel Manufacturers visit; Geelong Fabrications, 1-19 Madden St. North Shore.

Where it all happens; the sketching and consultation room. This is where sketches and client consultations occur. The structural engineer spends time in here during the initial concept stages of the project. During our visit, work was being carried out on bridge ends for part of the Mitcham/Frankston Freeway project. These bridge ends were 33m High and made entirely out of steel.





The main workshop, where all welding and steel product fabrication occurs. The workshop was set up into four areas, two where singal shape and member fabrication occurred, storage and a huge fabricaton area for the entire project.








This is where basic shapes are welded. These shapes, eg. in this case, he was welding a simple square, are used to fit into the bigger project. These shapes are welded to perfection, in accordance with engineer's specifications. All the details and specifications for these shapes are provided by detailed shop drawings. Upon completion, these shapes are crane lifted over to the major project and then welded into place.





This is where basic steel members are manufactured, as you can see from this picture, in this case C-section steel beams are being produced. Once again members are manufactured according to shop drawing specifications.

This was the major project (bridge end

), being worked on while we were there. This bridge end was one of four and took many worker

s to complete. The bridge end pictured here was still being pieced together. 4-way lasers are used to correctly cut and piece together all elements perfectly.






Here is a CAD produced sketch of the final product. Due to client confidentiality, we were unable to photocopy any shop drawing, however we did view many, the file for this project was enormous.















Bridge end being painted