Capability 05 · Detailing

The building is welded twice — once in the model, once in the yard.

Five detailers turn your drawings into a model where every member has a mark, every bolt has a count and nothing collides. No plate is cut until that model is signed off.

5detailers working on one model
1model holding steel, openings and services
100%of connections clash-checked before cutting
0pieces cut before the model is approved
What the model holds

Five Questions the Model Answers Before a Saw Runs

Most site problems were drawn on paper and settled on site. Here they are settled on screen, while the answer still costs an hour.

01

Anchor bolts

The setting-out drawing reaches site first, so foundations can be cast while the steel is still plate. Get this one wrong and nothing above it fits — no amount of site skill fixes a bolt cast in the wrong place.

02

Connections

Every plate, bolt and weld drawn at the joint it belongs to. Bolt lengths are counted per connection, not estimated per tonne, so the bag that arrives at the column is the bag that column needs.

03

Everything that is not steel

Crane envelope, door swing, duct run, sprinkler main, the space a forklift mast needs. Found in the model they cost an hour. Found on site they cost a week and a reputation.

04

Piece marks

Each member gets one number that follows it from the saw to the bundle, into the container and out to the hole it goes in. Packing list, shipping list and erection drawing all use that same number.

05

Erection sequence

Drawings numbered in the order the crew lifts, with temporary bracing shown at the stage it is needed. On a site with one crane, sequence is the schedule — and the sequence is decided here, not in a phone call at 7 a.m.

From model to drawing
Tekla 3D model of a steel warehouse, members colour-coded by type
The Tekla model, built before a plate is cut: every member, connection and bolt resolved in one file.
Printed shop drawing set on a table with a scale rule
What comes out of it: numbered assembly drawings, connection details and the packing sequence.
What it changes

What Changes on Site When the Model Is Right

Detailing is invisible in a photograph. It shows up as a crew that keeps working instead of waiting for a call.

01

No drilling on site

Holes are punched and drilled in the yard, finished and painted there. A site drill is a rust point and a lost afternoon, every time.

02

Bolts arrive already counted

Bags labelled by connection. A crew that is not sorting bolts is a crew that is lifting steel.

03

Foundations and steel overlap

Anchor drawings released early let the civil work run in parallel, instead of waiting for the first container to find out where the bolts go.

04

Changes are cheap while they are lines

Moving a door in the model is a phone call. Moving it after fabrication is a cutting disc, a repaint and a new delivery date.

05

You can walk it before it exists

The model can go to your engineer, your erector, your insurer or your fit-out contractor before a single plate is cut. Everybody argues about the same building.

06

Revisions stay readable

One model, one revision list. When the client asks what changed since last month, the answer is a document rather than a memory.

The other four

Where This Model Goes Next

Send the Architectural Drawing. We Will Send Back a Model.

A PDF, a DWG or a photograph of a sketch is enough to start. Detailers here read drawings before they read purchase orders.

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