Steel Day 2009

Steel Day 2009, hosted by B&B Welding Company, Inc. was a huge success. The event, celebrated nationally by partners in the structural steel fabrication industry, was attended by more than 125 people, including architects, engineers, students, contractors, and local neighbors. They came to our facility to witness steel being fabricated from start to finish.
 
More importantly for the structural steel industry was the unveiling of the receipt of material heat numbers, and associated material certifications, through the ASN (Advanced Shipping Notice) by scanning mill applied bar codes. Two of our software partners, P2 Programs and Fabsuite, demonstrated the fruits of their efforts to advance an AISC initiative dating back to the early 2000’s. We thank them for their efforts to improve the seamless transfer of data between all the partners of the steel building delivery team.
 
For the occasion we fabricated decorative tables and displayed the Christmas Trees fabricated and installed annually for the Main Street Lighting of Historic Dundalk, MD. Spit cooked pig, pit ham, pit beef and turkey was served to all who attended.

To see photos from the event, click here.

Law Day on the Bay ’09

’Twas a memorable 2009 “Law Day” on the Bay. Cap’t Joe and mate Janet of the Lucky Duck led us to the finest live lining for rockfish and bluefish we have yet experienced.

Cove Point LNG Plant Expansion

Dale Hoots was on the road again. Cruising the Baltimore Beltway, Dale, a project procurement engineer with Chicago Bridge and Iron Co., peered out of his truck and saw overhead cranes just off the highway. To Dale, big cranes can only mean one thing: someone’s moving big pieces of steel. On the lookout for a Baltimore-based steel fabricator, Dale took the first exit and doubled back in hot pursuit of the ten-ton bridge cranes. He found the source at the gates of B&B Welding, he pulled in and knocked on the shop door. And that’s how one of the biggest jobs in B & B’s history came to us: as a walk-in.

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