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COVER STORY: Wall-to-Wall Dilemmas
Erectors find elbow room on jobs with cramped quarters
COVER STORY By Tracy Bennett
Three of the five winning Projects of the Year–presented by SEAA in April 2024 to members from Arizona, Georgia, and Kentucky– shared common challenges of space constraints and difficult site access.
In Atlanta, Georgia, Porter Steel, Inc., had to deliver materials for an 8,625 lb AESS staircase to be installed between 9th and 10th floors of an office building using a 5 ft x 8 ft elevator. Likewise, All Things Metal faced setting structural steel by hand in the basement and upper floors of a 100-year-old building conversion into a posh boutique hotel. Located in downtown Phoenix, Arizona, the building was hemmed in on one side by a light rail line.
At 691+ tons of steel erected, Cumberland Steel Company’s project was on a larger scale than the other two. However, they faced similar difficulties building an immersive sports, entertainment and arts venue in The Colony, Texas. The jobsite location was not much larger than the overall footprint of the structure itself, and had residential buildings on two sides, access roads that could not be shut down, and several other active projects surrounding it.
SEAA’s Project of the Year award is open to members performing Miscellaneous Metals or Structural Steel work. Projects are judged against others of similar steel erection contract value. Submissions for the 2024 award could come from projects that topped out in 2023 or 2024. This article is Part One in a Two Part Series. The remaining winners will appear in the Fall issue.
IN THIS ISSUE
VISA Office Staircase, Atlanta, Ga.
Misc. Metals Class II (up to $500,000)
Erector: Porter Steel, Inc.
Fabricator: Porter Steel, Inc.
Detailer: Blanco, Inc.
Architect: Interior Architects PC
Structural Engineer: SE Shear Structural
GC: Leapley Construction, Inc.
Contract Value: $349,978 | Tons of Steel: 4.3 | Topped Out: June 2023
Luhr’s Moxy Hotel, Phoenix, Ariz.
Erector: All Things Metal, LLC
Fabricator: All Things Metal, LLC
Detailer: Hi-Q Design, Inc.
Architect: FFKR Architects
Structural Engineer: PK Associates
GC: Oakland Construction
Contract Value: $884,942 | Tons of Steel: 45 | Topped Out: June 2023
COSM Grandscape Entertainment Venue, The Colony, Texas
Structural Class II ($500,000 to $1 Million)
Erector: Cumberland Steel Company
Fabricator: SteelFab Texas
Detailer: Prodraft
Architect: HKS Inc.
Structural Engineer: HKS Structure
GC: Rodger O’Brien
Contract Value: $945,871 | Tons of Steel: 691 | Topped Out: October 2023
