Behlen tackles steel goliath
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This article was published 23/02/2019 (2505 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
A local manufacturing company will soon begin work on what they say is the largest known rigid-frame building to date.
With the engineering nearly completed, Behlen Industries will start the construction of an airport hangar destined for Hamilton, Ont.
The scale of the building has proven to be a unique project for the company, and Behlen Industries is excited to begin work, vice-president Sean Lepper said.
“It will be one of the bigger projects we have done in the past five years,” Lepper said. “It’s a real engineering feat.”
The company specializes in steel manufacturing and is Canada’s largest distributor. Known for tackling massive projects, the business helps craft heavy structures for the oil and gas, mining, aviation industries and more.
Spanning 85.3 metres, the Hamilton aircraft hanger is not only the biggest rigid-frame building the company has worked on, it will be the widest clear-spanning project of its kind.
Rigid frames consist of I-beams, each three metres deep and 0.6 metres wide, with each weighing almost 8,200 kilograms.
“We make the steel pieces that go into the building that are then bolted together at the airport when the hangar is constructed,” Lepper said.
Working on the design for the last couple of months, the building of the pieces for the project will begin in about four weeks.
The majority of the project will include welding and row forming at Behlen.
It is expected to take about two months to complete.
“It’s a credit to all of our workers at Behlen from our engineering staff right through to our welders on the shop that will be working with these huge pieces of steel,” Lepper said,
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