Drawing Office

S H Structures Limited is committed to involvement from the earliest stages of a project, aiming to develop a supportive relationship with the client’s professional team. Assistance is provided with both, technical and budget issues and carefully considered value engineering, development of connection details and innovative erection schemes frequently provide benefits to the construction programme as well as being more cost effective.

Seeing the benefit of 3-d modeling some years ago the company is now at the forefront in the use this technology during the development of steel structures. All our projects are produced using Tekla Structures software, which enables us to develop the shapes and forms often required by our clients, turning abstract concepts into a working reality.

The software is used throughout the project's early development through to it's on site erection and produces the various general arrangement and fabrication drawings. It also provides additional benefits, such as determining centre of gravity for intricate assemblies. This information is used in the development of erection schemes to provide detailed plans for complex lifts, ensuring correct placement of difficult items ‘first time’, reducing the risk to operatives working at height.

Our teams’ efforts were rewarded with an award in the Tekla worldwide 3d modeling competition for the work carried out on the 2006 Stirling Prize short-listed project, the National Assembly for Wales, Cardiff.