Structural steel fabrication for San Diego and Southern California

Fabrication that is actually ours

Struc Steel is a fabricator, not a broker. Your columns, beams, girders, base plates, gussets, stiffeners and embeds are cut, drilled, coped, fit and welded in our Spring Valley facility by people we employ. That matters on two fronts. Quality is controlled by us rather than negotiated with a third party, and schedule is something we can actually influence when a project moves.

It also means that when a question comes up during erection, the answer comes from the same building that made the piece. Contractors who have chased a fabrication problem through a broker to an out of state shop understand why that is worth something.

Systems we fabricate

Southern California structures carry seismic demands that drive frame selection, and each system carries different fabrication consequences. Special moment frames require careful attention to the connection region and to welding procedure and inspection. Braced frames concentrate large forces into gusset plates and their attachments. Ordinary framing still has to fit within tolerances that let deck, curtain wall and mechanical systems land where they were drawn.

We fabricate moment frame assemblies, concentrically and eccentrically braced frames, gravity framing, roof and floor systems, transfer girders, canopy and trellis structures, and the connections that tie them all together.

Sequenced delivery, not a pile of steel

Steel delivered out of order costs erection hours that never appear in anyone's estimate. Pieces are marked according to the erection drawings and loaded so that the first thing off the truck is the first thing the crane picks. On tight urban sites we plan around street permits, delivery windows, lane closures and adjacent trades before the first load leaves the shop.