What Is Structural Steel Detailing?
Structural steel detailing creates detailed drawings for steel erectors and fabricators, including drawings, plans, estimates, reports and other necessary documents for the erection and manufacture of steel members. Structural steel detailing touches on a variety of steel members including, but not limited to steel beams, columns, trusses, braces, handrails, joists, metal decking and even stairs. As such structural steel detailing is vital in a cross section of construction and manufacturing industries like building construction, naval and marine (shipbuilding), plants and other structures. In fact anything that is large enough to require structural steel needs structural steel detailing. Further, structural steel detailing takes together the inputs of engineers, architects, contractors and fabricators. While detailers are not responsible for the design or the integrity of steel members, architects and structural engineers will have to review and approve any structural steel detailing
