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1. Earlier occupation – Steel-designed structures progress faster than concrete designs, allowing owners to occupy sooner. This reduces preliminary costs for builders and provides earlier return on investment.
2. Reduced risks onsite - Fabrication proceeds in the workshop so builders have far less workers onsite, easing OH&S risks and disruption and giving fabrication more immunity from site industrial disputes or disruptions from bad weather.
3. More column-free room - Structural steel offers large spans often reducing the number of columns required. Steel columns themselves are smaller, also allowing more useable floor space.
4. Future-proof developments - Existing steel members can be strengthened later allowing greater load bearing if additional floors are required in the future. Floors can be modified later in line with tenants demands and hence extend the working life of the asset.
5. Transportable design - New technology allows more cost-effective steel and fire protection designs as in-house 3D modeling transfers data directly to Computer Numerical Control (CNC) machines. This right first time and clash detection technology equals risk reduction for the builder.
6. Life everlasting – Steel is 100 percent recyclable so all steel associated with the design can be extracted and reused or recycled.
7. Lighter weight – Often the foundation and column costs can be significantly reduced due to the lighter weight of steel construction. This can often substantially affect the building economics.
Dispelling the myths
A number of misconceptions have sprung up, based more on old and shortsighted attitudes than facts...
High steel costs make designs too expensive – Surprisingly, the major cost in multi-level buildings is frequently not the steel but the labour needed for fabrication as labour accounts for most of the steel quote. Modern CNC equipment has reduced structural steel development costs, even as the cost of materials has risen.
Steel fire protection is complex and costly - A large portion of this cost is reduced with modern fire Protection designs, in some cases completely removed or based on deemed to comply provisions of the Building Council of Australia become simple to apply. The steel industry has teamed with Victoria University to show how fire costs can be reduced in steel designs and comply with the BCA regulations.
Page Steel is working with OneSteel Market Mills and the Australian Steel Institute to offer modern competitive designs tailored to a fully automated process.
In house CNC equipment
Page Steel use in house 3D Modeling to speed up production of shop drawings and improve accuracy, as well as producing data for CNC equipment. The 3D model also generates all data for STEELTRACK®. With the aid of modern CNC fabrication equipment, Page Steel further reduce fabrication labour costs.
The design will be tailored towards eliminating connections requiring manual labour, and converting connections to a fully automated process.
The benefit of owning and operating the latest CNC machinery, is the savings can be passed on to the client, making the steel alternative cost effective. Surprisingly many times the major cost in multi-level buildings is not the steel, but the labour needed for fabrication.
Page Steel has invested millions of dollars in specialized equipment to dramatically reduce costs in all aspects of fabrication. Two major machines have been purchased from the USA, specially customized to the American trend towards multi-level structures designed with structural steel. A majority of steel sections will not require human intervention until the final checking phase.
Working with Page Steel also allows clients full traceability throughout the manufacture, painting and delivery process. All information is gathered by multiple customized electronic scanners, through the use of barcode technology. Page Steel are the only fabricator in Australia to use the STEELTRACK® software package that gives real time reporting and monitoring of every member on every project.
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