Structural Steel and Cabin Installation.

A commercial job at a South Coast caravan park. Substantial structural steel, and four cabins lifted into position on top of it.

The job

The park needed to get more out of the same piece of ground. The answer was to build up rather than out.

We're on site now putting in the structure that makes that possible: significant structural steel work, and four cabins craned into position on top of it.

Familiar ground, in a way

Josh and Sean first met working in a crew renovating cabins in Tasman holiday parks. Weeks away at a time, fast work, good blokes to be around.

So cabins in a holiday park aren't new territory for either of us. Doing it under our own name, with the structural work underneath as well, is.

Getting four cabins into the air

A job like this is mostly won before anything turns up on site.

Setting out, levels, and making sure everything is where the drawings say it is. Once a cabin is sitting on steel you don't get to nudge it, so the margin for getting it wrong is somewhere near zero.

The steel came to site from the builder without the connection holes drilled. So we set the whole structure out, measured and drilled every connection point on site, then installed and aligned the frame to the plans.

That accuracy mattered more than usual, because the cabins were prefabricated and craned straight onto the frame afterwards. Levels, spacing and alignment all had to be right the first time.

Our EWP ticket earns its keep on jobs like this one.

Why we take on work like this

Most of what we do is residential. Decks, bathrooms, renovations, the things people live in and use every day.

Then something like this comes along, which is different in almost every respect, and it has problems in it we haven't solved before. Working those out is most of the reason we do this for a living rather than something easier.

We'd take on more of it.

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