Capability
Fabrication & installation
Structural and heavy fabrication from our Brisbane workshop, installed across South East Queensland and Northern NSW by the crew that built it.
What we fabricate
Structural steel
Beams, columns, portal frames and connections, built to your engineer’s drawings.
Shade structures & canopies
Schools, clubs and commercial. Fabricated in Brisbane, installed by the same crew.
Stairs & balustrade
Stringers, treads, compliant handrail and balustrade for commercial and residential.
Platforms & access
Walkways, mezzanines and access platforms where people have to work safely at height.
Lift shafts & plant steel
Service structures and support steel that has to land exactly where the engineer says.
Heavy machinery repairs
Buckets, frames and wear plate for earthmoving and mining plant, in the shed or on site.
Seaport & defence
Fabrication and site welding under strict compliance and security requirements. MSIC held.
Architectural steelwork
Gates, screens and feature elements where the finish matters as much as the weld.
Processes
What we run
MIG, TIG and stick (MMAW) across mild steel, stainless and aluminium. Oxy/acetylene cutting and gouging. Measuring, marking, cutting, welding, grinding and finishing, all in-house.
Standards & testing
How it is proved
Welding performed to AS/NZS 1554.1. Magnetic particle weld testing available and quoted per job. Welder qualification records and weld procedures available on request for tender submissions.
Scope
We build to your drawings
TMF fabricates and installs to engineered drawings supplied by you or your engineer. We don’t do the structural design — which means the scope is clean, the responsibility sits where it belongs, and there is no ambiguity about who certified what.
If a drawing doesn’t carry the detail to fabricate something properly, we flag it at quote stage rather than assuming and pricing the risk into your job.
The process
From the drawing to the steel
Every job starts as lines on a page. Drag the slider to see where it ends up.
The drawing is set out over the finished structure at Sunnybank State School, so the two line up. Sections are indicative — every job is built to the engineer’s drawings.
Lead time
Turnaround is the point
The single thing clients name when they come back: we hit the date. On programs where a larger shop quotes months, we quote weeks — and then we deliver them.
The honest version
Lead time depends entirely on the job. Tell us the date you need it on site and we'll tell you straight whether we can hit it — before you commit, not after.
Why we're quicker
A workshop set up for structural work and a crew that runs it directly. No layers of approval between your call and steel getting cut — and no queue behind three larger contracts.
When it's tight
Programmes move. When yours does, we resource up and move with it — that flexibility is why builders keep our number in their phone rather than their filing cabinet.
Start to finish
How a job runs
The same seven steps every time. Tap through them — it is why programs hold and why builders come back.
You send the plans
Drawings & quote
We work from your engineer’s drawings, flag anything undetailed before we price it, and come back with the scope written out line by line — what’s in, what’s out, and a total.
Steel arrives
Cut & prep
Measured, marked and cut to the shop detail in our Brisbane workshop. Edges prepped and ready to weld.
It gets built
Fabrication
Fabricated and welded to AS/NZS 1554.1 by our own crew. Progress photos as we go if you want them.
Before it leaves
Inspection
Every piece checked against the drawings on the floor. Weld testing carried out where the job calls for it.
To your program
Delivery
Prefabricated and delivered to site when you need it, so site time stays short.
On site
Installation
Erected by the same crew that built it, working to your site rules, inductions and access constraints.
Paperwork closed
Handover
Weld certificates, as-builts and compliance documents delivered without being chased. Your QA file closes on time.
Typical
Weeks, not months
Lead time depends on the job — tell us the date you need it and we’ll tell you honestly whether we can hit it.
Throughout
One line of communication
Estimating prices it, Tom runs it, and both sit in-house. No messages relayed through an account manager who was never on site.
Always
Nothing assumed
If a drawing doesn’t carry the detail, we raise it at step one instead of at variation stage.
Capacity
Plant & equipment
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Workshop floor | 530 m² clearspan warehouse & office |
| Internal height | 6.5 m+ — clears tall assemblies |
| Access | 2 × container-height roller doors |
| Power | Large 3-phase supply |
| Welding | MIG, TIG, stick — multi-process capability |
| Cutting | Oxy/acetylene cutting & gouging |
| Height access | EWP over 11m, working at heights equipment |
| Materials handling | Forklift, licensed operators (TLILIC0003) |
| Lifting & transport | Crane trucks engaged per job for larger assemblies |
| Mobile | Fully equipped mobile welding vehicles |
| Site access | MSIC card — maritime security identification |