Manchester City Centre
The Piccadilly end of the city centre keeps rising with office and apartment towers on tight plots. We phase the craneage and erect primary frames and transfer beams where new cores meet existing streets and basements.
Manchester is building upward in the centre and outward across its industrial estates, from the Piccadilly and Deansgate towers to the logistics sheds of Trafford Park. Steel frames sit behind almost all of it, and we design, fabricate and install each one with our own directly employed teams.
















Our mild steel workshop has been busy this week fabricating and welding the structural steelwork for a unique project we have on down in Londonπ₯ This project involved ourselves sourcing the CHS steelwork from...
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A free site visit anywhere in Manchester. Drawings, access and specifications logged. Same-day quote on small domestic structural steelwork enquiries; 1-2 weeks on large commercial tenders with a full take-off.
Detailed, fabricated and finished in our own workshop under BS EN 1090 Execution Class 2. QA pack, mill certs and traceability documentation ready before delivery.
We schedule delivery to your Manchester site on our own transport, around your access windows and site programme, not third-party haulage timetables.
Directly employed CSCS-carded crew with their own MEWPs. Full RAMS pack, as-built drawings and 12-month defect liability at handover.
UB and UC primary frames, bracing, columns, purlins and rails, edge protection, plant decks, stair cores, and mezzanine steelwork. Fabricated to BS
Lifting plans are written in-house, by someone who knows how things actually work on the ground - the same team who planned
Tekla modelling, BIM coordination at LOD 300+, FEA where specified, and 3D site scanning on retrofit packages - the mezzanine floor at
Tier-1 commercial, live retail refurbishment, live leisure, research and laboratory, and reclaimed structural steel.
The same standards, capacity and accountability on every job, wherever the site.
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The Piccadilly end of the city centre keeps rising with office and apartment towers on tight plots. We phase the craneage and erect primary frames and transfer beams where new cores meet existing streets and basements.
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"I've worked with UIS for several years on some high profile and very complex projects. Their attitude and work ethic are second to none - providing high quality services and products which are delivered safely and on time every time. Overall they are a pleasure to do business with and wouldn't hesitate recommending UIS for any steelwork or metalwork packages."
Steelwork for a Manchester scheme is handled by a single team rather than a chain of suppliers. We produce the fabrication design, cut and weld the frame at our South Yorkshire base, and send our own crews into Greater Manchester to erect it. That one line of responsibility, held by a family-run business since 1994, is what keeps a busy regeneration programme on track.
Start your quoteYes. Manchester and the wider North West are a regular part of our nationwide work. Your steel is designed and fabricated at our South Yorkshire workshop to BS EN 1090 Execution Class 2, then erected by our own installation teams. Being based elsewhere makes no difference to the service you receive.
Yes. Much of Manchester's mixed-use and regeneration work sits on constrained plots next to live streets and neighbouring buildings. We plan lifts, deliveries and sequencing around the site before our crews arrive, phasing steel to suit restricted access and shared roads so erection stays safe and predictable.
Programme depends on tonnage and how settled the drawings are, rather than location. With around 100 tonnes moving through our workshop each month, we set a fabrication and erection date once details are approved and keep to it, since both stages are run by our own teams.
Our own installers, employed directly by us. We do not pass Manchester site work to subcontracted or agency teams, so the crew bolting your frame together answers to the same business that designed and fabricated it. That keeps quality and responsibility in one place.
Yes. A lot of Manchester's growth is mixed-use, with commercial ground floors and residential or office levels above. We fabricate primary and secondary steelwork, transfer beams, columns, staircases and access platforms, so the structural frame for that kind of layered building can be designed, built and installed by one team.
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We work from our own fabrication facility in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, and deliver and install across Manchester and the UK with our own teams and transport, one accountable team from enquiry to handover.