Capabilities / Field Install & Repair

Self-Performed Installation · Field Splicing
In-Place Finishing · Remediation

Field Install
& Repair

Crane picks, lifts, ladders and occupied lobbies
EMR 0.85 · No recordable cases this year
Utah · Nevada · Arizona · Washington · Oregon

Pictured · Mike Hulse, Director of Production
Setting glass guardrail at Career Tech High School

We Self-Perform: Installation · Field splicing
Remediation
Access: Telehandler & forklift owned
Cranes and lifts as needed
Field Finishing: Weld and re-grain
in place
Largest Install: 743 Linear Feet
The Residences at St. Regis
Safety: EMR 0.85
OSHA 10 & 30 on the crew
Reach: Utah · Nevada · Arizona
Washington · Oregon

The metal is the easy part.
Getting it where it goes is not.

We deliver two ways. Some packages are supply only — crated in Logan and hung by somebody else. The rest we install ourselves, which means our people, our access equipment and our responsibility from the truck to the final inspection. This page is about the second kind, and about what happens after.

The field teaches the shop

When the same company fabricates and installs, the field stops being somebody else's problem to absorb. Every bad detail comes home. A base plate that fights the anchor pattern, a splice that lands in the wrong place, a panel that cannot be carried up the stair it belongs on — you find out, and you stop drawing it that way.

That feedback is why our supply-only packages ship the way they do. We crate for the crew because we have been the crew.

It also means the answer to "who fixes it" is never a conversation. On work we install, it is us.

Zach Arnold and the crew moving a steel section across the plaza at the USU Taggart Student Center

Pictured · Zach Arnold, MFCEO and Master Welder/Fabricator
with Ricardo Hernandez, Shop Foreman — USU Taggart Student Center

01 — The access

Most of the problem is getting
the part to where it lives

Ornamental and architectural metal does not go in at ground level. It goes on a balcony four floors up, along a mezzanine edge, or into a tower opening reachable only by crane.

At the Casper Wyoming Temple, the upper window assemblies were glazed with stained glass on the ground, rigged, and flown into the building on a crane — then tied off, plumbed and welded in from ladders while the assembly hung on the line. One pick, one chance, and a weather window that closed every afternoon.

At St. Regis, 743 feet of balcony guardrail went up a hillside site in winter, reached by telehandler. Planning the access is planning the job — how the part gets lifted decides how it gets built.

We own a telehandler and a shop forklift, and rent cranes and lifts on site when the job calls for them. Knowing which one you need, and when, is part of the bid.

A completed window frame assembly suspended on a crane line above a jobsite — One pick, one chance.

02 — The attachment

You are anchoring into a structure
somebody else already built

Rail is almost never the first trade. By the time we arrive the concrete is poured, the steel is set and the tolerances are whatever they are. Our job is to attach life safety to a structure we did not control.

At St. Regis the balconies were post-tensioned concrete cantilevers, with the tendons in a different place on every one. Drill into a tendon and the consequence is not a bad hole, it is a structural event.

So we required the slabs be scanned before anyone drilled, and proposed a continuous 1/2" × 7" base plate so anchors could be placed between tendons instead of into them. That was our solution to somebody else's constraint, offered before it became an incident.

A crew member working at the base of a balcony guardrail on an open deck — Anchored between the tendons, not into them.

03 — Afterward

We come back

A rail package is not finished when the last panel is hung. Buildings move, schedules compress trades on top of each other, and field conditions turn up that nobody drew.

At the Gilbert Northwest Water Treatment Plant — a supply-only package — our crews have been on site working through field conditions on the installed rail alongside the installer, as they come up. Nothing in that contract required it.

Supply only describes where our contract ends. It does not describe where our responsibility does. We also take on remediation work on existing rail, including packages we did not fabricate, where the repair is worth doing properly.

Installed aluminum guardrail along the edge of a deep concrete basin at a water treatment plant — Installed, inspected, and still ours.

Two crew members welding stainless handrail on a stair in a parking structure — Stair rail · SLC Airport

A welder working overhead from a scissor lift, sparks falling — Overhead from a lift · USU Taggart

Crew installing guardrail along a bleacher edge in a field house — Bleacher edge · SLCC

743 LF

Largest single install

0.85

Experience Modification Rate

Recordable cases this year

States licensed

Need the package installed, or the last one fixed?

Send drawings and a site address. If it is remediation, photographs of the condition and whatever you have on the original installation get us to a real number faster.

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Installed by us

2020–2021 · Park City, UT

The field teaches the shop

Most of the problem is gettingthe part to where it lives

You are anchoring into a structuresomebody else already built

We come back

Need the package installed, or the last one fixed?

The Residences at St. Regis

Casper Wyoming Temple

City Creek Center

Most of the problem is getting
the part to where it lives

You are anchoring into a structure
somebody else already built