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Fabrication & Erection Excellence

Fabrication & Erection Excellence Award for the Prayagraj Airport Building — STESSA 2026, IIT Delhi.

Each scheme is shaped by the client's functional brief, budget and programme on one side, and by the realities of the site on the other: ground conditions, access and crane movement, span and headroom constraints, wind and seismic exposure, and the sequence in which the structure has to go up.

Because our engineering and estimation teams sit under the same roof as fabrication and erection, framing options, member sizing and connection philosophy are evaluated against tonnage, shop hours and site sequence — not against code compliance alone.

The result is a structure that is safe and fully compliant, and also lean: optimised steel weight, simplified connections, standardised sections, and far fewer surprises at site. On most projects this is where the largest savings are found — long before a single tonne is procured.

Engineering & estimation

From the agreed concept we develop the structural solution in full — analysis, design, connection design and shop detailing to the relevant IS codes. Quantity take-offs and estimation are prepared in-house, so the client has cost certainty before material is committed.

Procurement & fabrication

Established mill and vendor relationships secure the right material at the right price and the right time. Fabrication runs under a disciplined quality regime — material traceability, welding and surface-treatment control, and stage-wise inspection built into the workflow rather than bolted on at the end.

Logistics & erection

Finished assemblies are dispatched in erection sequence, keeping the shop schedule and the site schedule locked together. At site our execution teams work to a documented erection methodology with defined crane, access and rigging planning, and an uncompromising approach to safety.

Handover

The project closes with testing, as-built documentation and a clean handover — complete, compliant and ready for occupation.

One team. One point of accountability. Concept to keys.

Pandav Nagar, Ghaziabad

325, Pandav Nagar Industrial Area, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh

Sikandrabad, Bulandshahr

D-37, Sikandrabad Industrial Area, Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh

Khyami, Aligarh

Khyami Industrial Area, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh — three new AI-driven plants with automated nesting, robotic welding and machine-vision QC feeding a digitally sequenced despatch bay.

Fabrication shop — automated production line

CNC plasma & oxy-fuel profile cutting

Hydraulic shearing & press braking

PTW & SAW welding line

Main frame erection — mobile cranes working to the erection sequence

ISO 9001:2015

Quality management system

Scope: manufacture and supply of pre-engineered building, PEB and structural steel.

ISO 14001:2015

Environmental management system

Environmental controls applied across both manufacturing units and site operations.

ZED Bronze

Ministry of MSME, Govt. of India

Zero Defect Zero Effect — a pledge to defect-free manufacturing with zero adverse effect on the environment.

OHSAS 18001 · ISO 45001

Occupational health & safety

Safety management to the OHSAS 18001 framework, now superseded by ISO 45001:2018, across fabrication and site erection.

MSME — Udyam

Ministry of MSME, Govt. of India

Registered enterprise under the Udyam scheme, and ZED certified under the same ministry.

RDSO approved

Indian Railways

Approved facility for railway and metro structural fabrication.

Indian Steel Engineer's Excellence Award

STESSA 2026 · IIT Delhi

Fabrication & Erection Excellence, Steel Buildings — awarded for the New Terminal Building at Prayagraj Airport (IXD) at the 12th International Conference on Behaviour of Steel Structures in Seismic Areas.

65 points — Crown Agents

Independent facility inspection

Our manufacturing facility was inspected and rated at 65 points by the London-based agency Crown Agents Inspection, covering plant capability, process control and quality systems.

Hazard identification & risk assessment

Every scope is risk-assessed before mobilisation, with a method statement, lift plan and permit regime agreed with the client's safety officer.

Work at height & erection safety

Full-body harness with double lanyard above two metres, life lines on every erected bay, temporary bracing retained until the frame is stable.

Cranes, rigging & tandem lifts

Certified operators and tested tackle, documented load charts, exclusion zones and a nominated signaller for every pick — including twin-crane tandem lifts.

Induction, PPE & toolbox talks

Site induction for all crew and subcontractors, issued PPE, daily pre-task briefing, weekly documented toolbox talks and recorded incident investigation.

Programme certainty

Fabrication runs in the shop while foundations are cast on site, so two critical paths run in parallel. There is no curing time on the frame and no weather-dependent wet trade holding up the sequence.

Column-free space

Tapered built-up frames carry clear spans well beyond what is economical in concrete — up to 60 m in a single span. Usable floor area goes up, and racking, cranes and process lines are laid out to the operation rather than around columns.

Lighter structure, lighter foundations

A steel frame weighs a fraction of an equivalent concrete one. Less dead load means smaller footings and less substructure — a decisive saving on poor ground, and less seismic mass to design for.

Shop-grade quality

Cutting, welding and surface treatment happen under cover with material traceability and stage-wise inspection. Site work becomes bolting to setting-out dimensions — repeatable, checkable, and far less dependent on site labour.

Ductile under earthquake

Steel yields before it fails. Braced and moment frames absorb and dissipate seismic energy through controlled deformation, which is why steel is favoured across India's higher seismic zones.

Extendable, adaptable, recyclable

Bays are added, mezzanines inserted and openings cut without demolishing the frame. Bolted structures can be dismantled and relocated, and structural steel is recycled at end of life without loss of properties.

Steel for multi-storey buildings

Work continues through construction bans

When GRAP Stage III–IV halts excavation, batching, cutting and other dust-generating site work, fabrication carries on inside our shop. Steel keeps accruing to the programme while a concrete frame simply stops — and bolted erection is among the activities most readily permitted to resume.

Far less dust at site

No on-site batching, no sand and aggregate stockpiles, no shuttering and no chipping or breaking. Members arrive finished and are bolted in place, so the particulate load on the neighbourhood is a fraction of a wet-trade site.

Almost no construction water

RCC draws water continuously — batching, then curing every pour for weeks. On sites served by borewells that demand comes straight out of the aquifer. A steel frame needs essentially none, and only the deck slab is cured.

Kinder to the water table and the trees

Sustained groundwater extraction for curing lowers the local water table, and mature trees around the site are the first to suffer — falling vigour, then dieback. Building dry removes that draw, and lighter foundations mean less excavation through the root zone.

A quieter, cleaner site

Fewer vehicle movements, no continuous concrete pours through the night, minimal spoil and site waste, and a smaller workforce with no site batching plant to run — which matters when the plot sits inside a live campus or neighbourhood.

Credit where it counts

Recycled content, dry construction, low site waste and end-of-life recovery all count toward IGBC and GRIHA scoring — and structural steel is recycled without loss of properties rather than becoming demolition rubble.

How intumescent paint protects structural steel

Intumescent paint

A reactive thin-film coating applied like a paint system. At 200–250 °C the film softens, chars and expands to 50–100 times its applied thickness, forming a rigid carbonaceous foam that insulates the section.

Cementitious spray (SFRM)

A wet-mix gypsum or Portland cement plaster with vermiculite or perlite aggregate, pumped and sprayed onto erected steel. Passive protection by mass and low thermal conductivity — entrapped air and water of hydration delay heat transfer.

How cementitious vermiculite spray protects structural steel

Indicative dry film thickness — intumescent

Governed by section factor Hp/A, not surface area

Indicative applied cost

Per m² of steel surface area, material and application

Budgetary only, per technical note SBC/TN/FP-01 R0. Firm rates are issued against the project member schedule and confirmed fire rating. Under NBC 2016 Part 4, single-storey industrial and warehouse structures with non-combustible roof framing frequently require no protection to the main frame.

Indicative 3D representation of a gable PEB — single or multi-span, with ribbed cladding, ridge cap, valley and eave gutters, roller shutters, entry canopies and roof skylights. Colours are rendered on screen and will vary from coated steel; confirm against RAL chips before release to fabrication.

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