Fabrication Manufacturing Company

What’s involved in fabrication design?

The first stage of any fabrication project is to create a vision of the final product and importantly, how it will be fabricated. It all starts with the initial idea but remember, just because you have a concept in mind doesn’t mean the object can be easily realised. That’s where we come in.

Generally, our customers provide us with whatever they can to illustrate their ideas, from hand-drawn plans to engineering drawings. Usually we are supplied with a concept rather than a drawing, but we are happy to proceed with whatever our customers have available. We use Inventor and AutoCad software which means we can accommodate files from most software systems.

At this stage, it’s important that we liaise with your designers, architects and surveyors to understand their requirements. This is a crucial step in the early stages of the fabrication process. Using this information, we are able to create design-build specifications for almost any metal fabrication project. These specifications will include designs for each component part. At this stage, everyone involved in the project must be able to clearly visualise how the process will evolve and take shape.

After this stage, comes product design, design engineering, structural approval (if required), customer approval and finally fabrication itself, i.e. manufacturing.

To ensure we work within current Health & Safety guidelines (as required by our customers), all Alroys’ staff have a range of qualifications including:

• Health, Safety & Environment – basic awareness of noise & vibration, hazardous substances, site transport safety and lifting operations, working at height.
• CSCS Cards – skill competence in their field of employment
  Asbestos Awareness – managing and working with asbestos
• PASMA (Tower) – competence when working from scaffold towers
• Harness Awareness & Safety Awareness – competence when working at height, working on roofs
• IPAF – competence when operating mobile elevating work platforms (cherry pickers & scissor lifts)
• SSSTS – site supervisory responsibilities to safely manage on construction sites
• IOSH (Managing Safely) – in depth knowledge and skills to manage health and safety, assess and control risks, hazard identification, accident investigation, etc.

Only when all health and safety documentation is completed and approved can our dedicated team of installers begin. Guided by your requirements and specific instructions, we assemble on-site and install the completed structure ready for sign off.

We’ve got years of experience creating and fabricating products for our customers. Here are a few examples of projects we’ve worked on:

Grandstand safety handrails

Our customer asked us to add a safety handrail at either end of a newly built grandstand. We assisted the customer with the design and structural requirements, manufactured to specification and installed on site.

Staircase and glass balustrade in new office development

In this office development, our customer wanted to add two different types of staircase, both with glass balustrading as handrails. They also required an additional glass balustrade acting as a handrail from the staircase to the first floor.

As is common with these projects, we assisted the architect and QS with the design, turning their concept into a reality. We sourced all the glass, special glass fittings, fabricated the staircases and, once everything was completed, we assembled and installed on site.

Cosmetic panelling and handrails in newly developed house

Our customer asked us to assist with the design and manufacture of cosmetic panelling and handrails in a newly developed house. The objective was to add a ‘wow’ factor to this high-spec project, offering something stylistically different to other house developments. The architect wanted to create a golden effect, complemented with LED lighting. We manufactured and fabricated all the components in-house and once painted, oversaw the installation.