6 | Pierce Engineering Companies such as Pierce Engineering are helping drive a revolution in structural steel design with the LYSAGHT SUPAPURLIN®. Australian made LYSAGHT SUPAPURLIN®’s are the rst real development in purlin design in many years. So unique and revolutionary is the SUPAPURLIN® design that the unique SUPAZED® and SUPACEE® purlin prooles have been patented by BlueScope Lysaght. The difference between regular purlins and the LYSAGHT SUPAPURLIN® is obvious. Unique stiffening ribs running along the web of the purlin make it easy to identify a LYSAGHT SUPAPURLIN®. These ribs are at the core of the SUPAPURLIN®’s remarkable enhanced performance. By improving the structural performance of the web in bending and/or shear the SUPAPURLIN® is able to bear more weight and span greater distances than the traditional purlin. That means cost savings can be achieved either through reducing the gauge of purlin used, reducing the number of supports needed, reduced purlin rows or a combination of all these approaches. All LYSAGHT SUPAPURLIN®’s are manufactured from high strength GALVASPAN® steel, BlueScope Steel’s zinc coated steel product speciically designed for purlin applications. Available in a range of thicknesses and web depths to suit any project the LYSAGHT SUPAPURLIN® is the ideal product alternative for commercial and industrial building applications. For more information on the LYSAGHT SUPAPURLIN® and the full range of LYSAGHT® steel building products visit www.lysaght.com It’s the difference you can see “Our employees are very important to our success,” Wayne says. “We all work together as a team to get the job done, and we need the right skills and knowledge on that team to be successful. Our guys have that.” Pierce Engineering also boasts similarly positive relationships with the people on their supply chain. Once again, they have been using the same suppliers for decades, and the relationships that Wayne’s father forged in the early days of Pierce Engineering are still going strong. Companies like OneSteel, Metalcorp, Stramit, Blastech, Industrial Galvanisers and Lysaght have all been faithful partners since the company’s start. A GOOD SIZE Over their many years in the industry, Pierce
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