Installing Structural Steel Components

This video provides a detailed guide to installing structural steel components using the standard COMPACKED beam and Z purlin system. It covers marking post positions, levelling with rubber packers, and securing posts with screw bolts. Beams are constructed from back-to-back C purlins, drilled, and fixed to posts safely. Joists are laid out on beams, spaced with bridging pieces at 400mm centers, and secured using tech screws. The process also includes managing obstacles with floating beams and ensuring proper alignment. The demonstration features a low-height mezzanine for training, offering practical tips for precision and safety in assembling structural steel components.

Video Length: 5 Min 36 Seconds

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Video Transcript

In this chapter, we’re going to install structural steel components using the standard compact process. The first step for installing the structure is to mark out the post positions, following the structural drawings provided.

Use a line laser to check markings are straight and square.

Set up post positions using the rubber packer pads. Note that these packers are also used for leveling the posts, and are supplied in twenty, ten, five, and two millimeter thicknesses, and are the same size as the base plates.

Then, lay out all posts and check for levels.

Next, using appropriate PPE, drill holes into the slab using a sixteen millimeter masonry drill bit.

Place the posts onto packers and fix with sixteen by one hundred and fifty screw bolts.

Once screwed in, check the posts are level and adjust as needed.

If you’re using wall plates, install them using sixteen by one hundred screw bolts.

Next step is to construct the beams.

These are constructed using two c purlins back to back.

Using M twelve by thirty five volts, fix the C purlins together, following the pattern of type two vertical holes at each end, then diagonally bolt them in between.

Note here that all beams have been selected according to the specific site requirements and are available in a range of sizes and strengths.

For this install, we’re using C25019P.

C being the shape, two fifty mil wide, one point nine wall thickness. For safety reasons, it’s a good idea to clamp the beam to the forks before lifting them onto the posts.

To drill the holes for the fixing beams, use a nineteen millimeter hole saw and lubricate with a cutting fluid.

Fix the beams to the posts with M16 by thirty five volts.

Once the beams are installed, the next step is to install the joists.

Also, this demonstration shows a mezzanine being built at low height for ease of training.

However, most mezzanine floors are at a greater height, which requires scissor lifts for access.

Next, we need to install the bridging pieces.

Joists should be laid out on the beams, and the bridging pieces installed using the built in clip mechanism.

Once installed, these bridging pieces will set the joists at four hundred millimeter centers.

Joists are fixed to the beams using tech screws. A couple of notes here. When required, spacers can be varied from the standard four hundred millimeter centers.

Also, these joists have two different flanges, one side bigger than the other.

The purpose of this is to allow them to overlay, with the smaller flange sitting inside the larger flange.

Using this system allows for length adjustment along the purlins as required.

Next up is to make sure the outside of the joists are sitting straight, in line with the end of the beams.

When there is an obstacle such as a shed column, we use a special beam called a floater to tie in the joists. This will be shown on the structural drawings and must be installed accordingly.

Finally, we just use a tech screw to give a guide for the hole saw and install the floater to the joists using m sixteen by thirty five bolts.

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