Precast Beam Detailing Services USA

• Piece drawings (shop tickets) — plan, elevation, and section views with all critical dimensions, concrete strength, reinforcement grades, camber, and identification marks
• Erection drawings — setting plans aligned with project gridlines and levels, bearing and haunch details, piece sequencing, and PCI MNL-127-compliant callouts
• Connection details — bearing pads, corbels, embedded plates, anchor bolts, and moment connection hardware drawn to project specifications
• Lifting and handling details — lifting point locations, insert schedules, and temporary bracing notes to support plant handling and site erection
• Dimensional control and clash avoidance — every drawing is checked against contract documents, PCI design recommendations, and project-specific tolerances before issue

Shop drawings are produced from coordinated 3D models or carefully reviewed 2D design inputs. Typical deliverables include beam piece tickets, erection drawings, connection details, and setting plans — all checked against ACI and AASHTO provisions to help reduce RFIs, change orders, and site rework.

• Complete rebar layouts — bar sizes, spacing, cover, development and lap lengths, stirrup patterns, shear reinforcement, and confinement steel around openings and bearing zones
• Bar bending schedules (BBS) — generated directly from the model, with clear bar marks, bending shapes, lengths, and quantities to streamline cutting and bending at the rebar fabrication shop
• Bills of materials (BOM) — quantity take-offs summarizing reinforcing steel, embeds, plates, anchors, and hardware per beam and per pour sequence
• Prestress strand layouts — for pretensioned beams, strand patterns, debonding lengths, and force calculations documented on shop tickets per AASHTO LRFD and PCI requirements
• PCI quality-procedure alignment — schedules and BOMs organized to support plant quality control, purchasing, inventory management, and production planning

Bar bending schedules are formatted to ACI 315 conventions and cross-referenced to beam piece tickets so plant personnel can quickly verify reinforcement against the correct drawing.

• Inverted Tee and Raker beam profiles with accurate tendon profiles and prestress force calculations
• Diaphragm and continuity connection details for multi-span bridges
• DOT submittal packages — formatted to meet individual state department of transportation requirements (FDOT, TxDOT, Caltrans, and others)
• As-built drawing reconciliation following field measurement surveys
• Shear key, bearing seat, and haunch details coordinated with superstructure geometry and bridge deck elements

When bridge beam profiles deviate from standard precast plant forms, we model the custom geometry in Tekla to verify formwork dimensions before fabrication tooling is committed.

• Industrial facilities — heavy-bay warehouse frames, precast loading dock beams, and crane girder supports
• Commercial construction — office building and retail frame beams coordinated with hollowcore and double-tee floor systems
• Residential and mixed-use — precast beam and column frames for multi-family mid-rise and podium structures
• Infrastructure and transit — transit platform beams, utility corridor headers, and precast culvert systems

• Federated model coordination — beam models combined with structural, architectural, MEP, and other precast elements for comprehensive clash detection in Navisworks
• RFI reduction — issues resolved digitally before fabrication, reducing costly field changes, rework, and pour cycle delays
• Coordination with bearing and connection elements — embed locations, corbel geometry, and bearing details cross-checked against adjacent structural members
• BIM deliverables — IFC 4 exports, coordination reports, clash logs, and model files shared in formats compatible with your project BIM workflow

Coordinated precast beam models support downstream workflows including erection sequencing, quantity take-offs, and PCI plant scheduling — turning the 3D model into a project-wide coordination asset.