Steel Construction Structures and Capabilities
Our capabilities with hot rolled steel, cold rolled steel, and light gauge steel framing allow us to provide the most effective turnkey solution for your project. Whether you need traditional steelwork, a light gauge steel frame, or a hybrid solution combining HRS and LGSF, we advise on the right approach and deliver it to specification. For clients who need scope clarity from day one, our steelwork services cover the frame package from coordinated design through to fabrication and site delivery.
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Our Construction Services
Hybrid Gauge Steel Frame
This System Is Best When:
You need the strength of hot-rolled primary steel with the speed and precision of light-gauge infill, especially on taller buildings, big spans, or concentrated loads.
Birkbecks Hybrid Steel Frame:
Our Hybrid Gauge Steel Frame combines hot-rolled steelwork with an LGSF infill system, giving you a practical balance of performance, buildability, and programme certainty. Delivered through our steel construction services, it is designed to shorten lead times, improve build accuracy, and support cost-effective delivery.
What We Offer:
A complete framing solution for wall, floor, and roof structures, with design features including balconies where required. Our team supports the full route from design through to manufacture, assembly, and installation as part of our steelwork services.
Benefits Of Hybrid Steel Frame:
Enhanced performance for stability and strength, especially on taller structures or where spans and loads demand more. Faster construction through off-site assembly compared to traditional methods. Adaptable layouts that can be extended or adapted later.
Hybrid Steel Frame Applications:
Frequently used for structures over 5 storeys, also suitable for lower-rise buildings where setbacks and insets are present. Suitable for new build, extensions, and renovation work.
Delivery & Process:
We provide project management across structural steelwork design, manufacture, assembly, and installation, working with architects and employers. Design deliverables include IFC files and 3D models for BIM Level 2. The system can incorporate composite concrete metal deck suspended floor slabs, with roof options including concrete slab with lightweight decking and purlins, or a pitched roof with purlins.
Get a quote for a Hybrid frame package:
Send your drawings and programme and we will advise the right approach.
Light-Gauge Steel Frame (LGSF)
This System Is Best When:
You want a fast, repeatable frame solution for low to medium-rise buildings, with clean setting out and smoother follow-on trades.
Birkbecks LGSF:
Our Light Gauge Steel Frame solutions use cold-rolled steel, fabricated and assembled off-site to your design specification, then delivered ready for installation. As part of our steel construction services, LGSF offers an efficient alternative to traditional construction methods, with precision that helps keep site progress predictable.
What We Offer:
LGSF designed, assembled, and installed to suit your project requirements, supported by our in house design and fabrication capability. This sits within our wider steelwork services, so design, manufacture, delivery, and install stay joined up.
Benefits Of LGSF:
Precision formed framing for repeatable quality. Faster installation, with cleaner setting out that helps follow on trades. A practical option for MMC programmes where time and consistency matter.
Applications Of LGSF
Commonly used for buildings of 2 to 7 plus storeys. Typical uses include residential projects such as student accommodation and build to rent, as well as hotels and care homes. For taller buildings, hot rolled components can be incorporated as needed, including hybrid solutions.
Delivery & Process:
We can support projects from the tender stage, and deliver from design through to delivery and installation. Frames are assembled ready for installation on site, supported by our in-house design department and fabrication teams.
Discuss your LGSF frame:
Share your building height, layout, andp target dates and we will map the right frame route.
Hot Rolled Steel Frame (HRS)
This System Is Best When:
You need heavy load capacity, long spans, or complex connections, and you want traditional steelwork delivered with modern controls.
Birkbecks HRS Solution:
Our Hot Rolled Steel frames support commercial and industrial buildings where strength, spans, and connection requirements drive the design. Delivered through our steel construction services, we provide design, fabrication, off-site assembly, and installation for traditional structural steelwork.
What We Offer:
Full service delivery covering supply, delivery, and installation of traditional steelwork as part of our steelwork services. Finishing options include painting. Where the site scope requires it, our steel erecting services can be included within the frame package.
Benefits Of Hot Rolled Steel:
High load capacity for materially efficient design, including large spans and high-rise applications. Time and cost efficiency through off-site fabrication and assembly, supporting fast erection once delivered to the site.
Applications Of Hot Rolled Steel:
Typically used for commercial, public, and industrial buildings, supporting clear spans, large heights, and durability requirements, including corrosive environments.
Delivery & Process:
We provide project management across design, fabrication, delivery, and installation, working with contractors, architects, and industry bodies. Detailed structural design and fabrication are undertaken to specification and in line with industry regulations, with finishing available where required.
Need a traditional steel frame package:
Send your GA drawings and loads and we will price and programme it.
Steel Frame Construction Services
Delays cost money, and your frame should not be the reason follow on trades are stood down. Our steel construction services cover traditional steelwork and modern methods of construction, delivered as a coordinated frame package across the UK. We bring design, fabrication, off site assembly, site delivery, and where required erection into one aligned programme.
As part of our steelwork services, we support scope clarity from day one through coordinated design and a frame that is straightforward to install and inspect. For projects that need it, our steel erecting services keep lifting and sequencing aligned on site. As one of the structural steel companies uk teams rely on for MMC and traditional build, we keep the process practical, controlled, and built to spec.
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Engaging with Birkbeck Structures early in the design process allowed us to take advantage of their innovative hybrid frame solution, giving certainty in delivery of the structure and ease of coordination of following trades with rapid project completion in comparison to a traditional building solutions”.
Peter Warring
Managing Director, John Warring & Sons