Steel Pencil, Structural Detailing Services
Offices in New Zealand & Philippines
Steel Pencil is dedicated to documenting engineering solutions for the construction industry. Principally this means that we provide design solutions and structural steel shop drawings for owners, EPCM companies and fabricators throughout the world. We also produce workshop drawings of other trades - for example, precast concrete.
Steel Pencil employs qualified and experienced staff and has an inhouse training and qualification system to grow our staff.
The company had its origins as an in house unit of a respected company of consulting engineers. The structural detailing business unit came from a drive in the 1990s to better serve clients by “pre-building” their projects in one electronic model. The pioneering work done at that time proved the concept (now globally accepted as BIM - Building Information Modelling). The result was reduced total costs and better management of the design and construction process. Steel workshop drawings were a major part of this “one model” concept and the shop drawing business unit grew, in January 2003, into an independent company, now Steel Pencil Limited.
Our passion for providing engineering solutions through BIM still exists today. We believe that your best interests will be served when there is one electronic model of a proposed project so that all coordination issues are managed during the modelling. This 3D model will mean that the project is only ever drawn once. Engineers will no longer have to spend time producing drawings which are then replicated by shop detailers. This will enable the designers to concentrate on what they do best – design! It will enable design reviews to be done from the “live” model, rather than from flat drawings. The model will be available to all trades for coordination.
One master model will mean no ambiguity. By the time subcontractors are appointed for trades, accurate information and material take offs will be available which will provide clarity and precise information for tenders, thus further reducing construction costs. It will enable every trade to view the entire scope of a project. As a master project management tool, the model will be an intelligent database used for managing the project throughout its life, providing further savings to the owner - the person we all work for.
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