What we work in: steel, LGS, timber

Hot-rolled steel

Sheds, industrial buildings, rooftop additions, bespoke structures. The classic ground, with several hundred completed buildings.

It is strong where the span is long or the load concentrated: because the cross-section is stocky, the design is limited by the strength of the material, not by the stability of plate elements. Hot-rolled sections: the basics.

Light gauge steel (LGS)

Thin-walled, cold-formed profiles. This is our narrower speciality — we do not only design in it, we know the manufacturing machines too.

It is strong where low self-weight, accuracy and dry construction matter: rooftop additions, extensions, buildings repeating in series, tight sites. What LGS is really good for.

And not where the span is long and the load heavy. What it is not good for.

Timber and mixed structures

Glulam, timber-to-steel connections. Often on rooftop additions, where self-weight is the bottleneck. Steel and timber framing.

A mixed structure is not a compromise

In a well-designed building it is natural for the main members to be hot-rolled and the infill structure thin-walled. Each material then works where it is best. When HRS is needed alongside LGS.

What to watch: the junction. Different material thicknesses, different fixing methods, different tolerances. Where steel meets concrete.

What we do not take on

Fully monolithic reinforced concrete. We design foundations, bracing cores and walls in concrete too. What we do not take on.

The point

Three materials, and we are attached to none of them. A good structure changes material where the other solution is more economic — and we say so in the first week.