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Steel Repair & Heat Straightening

Bridge strikes, impact-damaged girders and bent beams and columns, heat straightening, damage evaluation and member replacement for DOTs, authorities and facility owners, often on an emergency call.

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Bridge strikes & impact damage

Bridge Strikes & Emergency Response

When an over-height load hits a girder, HSE responds the way we did for NYSDOT in Westchester County: an engineer and a crew lead dispatched together, a rapid-response make-safe plan, and heat straightening or member replacement scheduled into the owner’s closure windows. The same engineers and crews answer impact-damage calls inside warehouses and plants.

  • Rapid response to bridge strikes and impact-damaged girders
  • Heat straightening over live traffic, the member restored in place
  • Make-safe shoring, then permanent repair
  • Emergency calls from DOTs, authorities and facility owners
Emergency Bridge Strike Response →
HSE ironworker heat straightening a struck girder over a live highway

Heat Straightening

A repair-focused alternative to member replacement. Controlled heating restores a buckled or bent beam or column in place, shorter lead time, lower cost and a faster return to service than cutting the member out.

  • The damaged member restored in place
  • Shorter lead time than fabricating a replacement
  • Faster return to service for the facility
Read the Heat Straightening Technical Guide →
Impact-damaged steel column before heat straightening
Before
Same column after heat straightening
After

Girder Replacement

When a girder is beyond straightening, HSE removes and replaces it: shoring, rigging and the pick planned by in-house PEs, with fabrication and heavy haul available inside the High family when the owner wants one source.

  • Shoring, removal and replacement under one contract
  • Rigging and crane coordination
  • Fabrication and heavy haul available within the High family
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Girder lift during a girder replacement

What Comes With the Crew

What a facility owner gets when they call HSE instead of a general contractor.

Heat Straightening

A repair-focused alternative to member replacement, the damaged member is restored in place, in an operating facility.

Licensed Professional Engineers

Damage evaluation, repair design and lift planning by our own PEs, licensed in ten states.

Emergency Response

Crews and engineering mobilized for red-flag and impact-damage calls, on bridges and inside buildings.

Part of the High Family

When a member has to be replaced, fabrication and heavy haul are available inside the High family, one call.

Can We Help?

Have a damaged beam, column or girder that needs to be evaluated, straightened or replaced?

Send the plans or piece schedule with the let or bid date, location and any staging or MOT constraints, a link to your plan room or ITB works.