About

Planning steel around how it gets built.

My background is primarily in field execution and preconstruction. I started as a union ironworker and later worked as a field engineer on major projects, including the Long Harbour processing plant, the K+S potash refinery, multiple stadiums and other large industrial facilities.

Much of my job was taking a plan, helping execute it, documenting what actually happened and sending that information back to the people planning the work. That feedback loop was valuable, but it was almost always messy. Important lessons were captured inconsistently, separated from their original context or lost before they could improve the next project.

That experience pulled me toward preconstruction. I wanted to bring field knowledge into the planning process and use models, production data, schedules and other tools to help teams anticipate problems before the work reached the field.

Steel Erection Field Notes is where I continue developing those ideas. The focus is on connecting estimating, work packaging, erection planning, crane logistics, production measurement and field execution into a more useful system. These are working ideas shaped by experience and meant to be tested, challenged and improved.