Steel Detailing Services · Georgia

Steel Detailing Services in Georgia, Built for the Fabrication Shop Floor

Drafting Buddies delivers AISC 360-22 and 2024-Georgia-code compliant shop drawings, erection drawings, and Tekla BIM models for fabricators, steel erectors, general contractors, and structural engineers across Atlanta, Savannah, and every county in between - turned around fast, checked twice, and ready for the shop.

Founded in Austin, TX
2014

Founded in Austin, TX

BBB Rating
A+

BBB Rating

States Served
50

States Served

Typical Quote Turnaround
24 Hrs

Typical Quote Turnaround

Detailing Certificate

Structural Steel · State of Georgia

Verified

Heat No.
GA-2026-STL
Spec Compliance
AISC 360-22 / AISC 303
Welding Standard
AWS D1.1
Bolting Standard
RCSC 2020
Detailing Software
Tekla Structures

Deliverable

ItemLODFormat
Shop Drawings400PDF / DWG
Erection Drawings400PDF / DWG
3D BIM Model350-400Tekla / IFC
NC Files-DSTV-NC1

Issued: Drafting Buddies LLC

Austin, TX · Est. 2014

Structural steel shop drawings for a Georgia fabrication project
Ironworker on a steel-framed building under construction in Georgia
Structural steel frame representative of Georgia steel detailing deliverables

Why Georgia Fabricators Outsource Detailing

A Steel Detailing Partner That Understands Georgia's Fabrication Market

Georgia's structural steel market is being reshaped by two forces at once: an Atlanta data-center construction pipeline valued north of $100 billion along the I-85 south and I-20 west corridors, and a coastal industrial boom anchored by the Hyundai Metaplant and the Port of Savannah's steel import and export traffic. Fabricators and erectors serving both markets need detailing capacity that scales without sacrificing accuracy on connection design or bolt-hole tolerance.

Drafting Buddies has produced structural steel detailing packages for commercial, industrial, and pre-engineered metal building projects nationwide since 2014. For Georgia clients, that means shop drawings and erection drawings checked against the 2024 IBC-based Georgia Amendments, connection detailing built to AISC 360-22 and AWS D1.1, and Tekla or SDS-2 models delivered in the piece-mark and NC-file format your fabrication shop already runs on. We work as an extension of your drafting department - not a black box - with a named detailer on every job and revision turnaround measured in days, not weeks.

  1. 01Steel-only detailing team fluent in Tekla, SDS-2, AutoCAD & Revit
  2. 02Every package checked against AISC 360-22, AISC 303 & current GA code
  3. 03Fixed pricing quoted per ton or per connection, no scope surprises
  4. 04A+ BBB rated, serving all 50 states since 2014
  5. 05NC1/DSTV files exported straight to your CNC line

The Full Scope

Structural Steel Detailing Services in Georgia

Ten services, one detailing team. Every heat number below links to a full description - from the primary structural package down to the miscellaneous metals nobody wants to detail in-house.

101Structural

Structural Steel Detailing Georgia

Our core service: complete structural steel detailing for commercial, industrial, institutional, and multi-family projects across Georgia. We take your structural engineer's design drawings and produce fully dimensioned, code-checked detailing packages - beams, columns, braces, base plates, and connections - ready for fabricator review and AHJ submittal. Every package is cross-checked against AISC 360-22 and the 2024 Georgia Amendments before it leaves our desk.

  • Structural Steel Detailing Georgia
  • Steel Detailers Georgia
  • Steel Detailing Company Georgia
102Shop Dwgs

Steel Shop Drawings Georgia

Fabrication-ready shop drawings for every steel piece on your job - piece marks, cut lengths, hole patterns, weld symbols, and finish call-outs formatted to match how your shop actually reads a print. We produce single-piece and assembly shop drawings for beams, columns, plates, and built-up members, with revision clouding so your shop foreman always knows exactly what changed between issues.

  • Steel Shop Drawing Services Georgia
  • Structural Steel Shop Drawings Georgia
103Fabrication

Steel Fabrication Drawings Georgia

Detailed fabrication drawings that carry every dimension, tolerance, and weld symbol a fabricator needs to cut, drill, and assemble steel accurately the first time. We coordinate camber, cope details, and material grade call-outs against your mill order so what shows up on the shop floor matches what was quoted - reducing rework and cutting scrap on every run.

  • Steel Fabrication Drawings
  • Steel Fabrication Detailing
104Erection

Steel Erection Drawings Georgia

Erection drawings and plans that give your field crew a clear, sequenced set for raising steel safely and on schedule - column layout plans, framing plans by level, erection sequence notes, and bolt-up schedules. We build erection sets to match your crane pick plan and coordinate piece marks directly against the shop drawing set so nothing gets lost between shop and site.

  • Steel Erection Drawings Georgia
  • Steel Assembly Drawings
105Connections

Steel Connection Detailing Georgia

Connection design and detailing for moment, shear, and bracing connections - bolted, welded, and combination types - engineered and detailed to AISC 360-22 and checked for constructability before they reach the shop. Our detailers flag bolt-hole conflicts, weld-access issues, and erection-tolerance problems at the desk, before they become field change orders.

  • Steel Connection Detailing Georgia
  • Structural Connection Detailing
106Misc Metals

Miscellaneous Steel Detailing Georgia

Stairs, railings, ladders, guardrails, embed plates, lintels, and other miscellaneous metals detailed as their own coordinated package, so they don't get buried inside the main structural set. We handle egress-stair detailing to IBC/ICC A117.1 tread and riser requirements and coordinate embeds with your concrete or precast detailer to avoid clashes at the deck edge.

  • Miscellaneous Steel Detailing Georgia
  • Metal Detailing Services
1073D BIM

3D Steel BIM Modeling Georgia

Full 3D structural steel BIM models built for multi-discipline coordination - clash-checked against MEP, concrete, and architectural models before a single piece is fabricated. We deliver federated 3D models in Tekla, Revit, or IFC format at LOD 350-400, with clash reports your GC's coordination meetings can act on directly instead of chasing conflicts after steel is already ordered.

  • Steel BIM Services Georgia
  • 3D Structural Steel Modeling
108Tekla

Tekla Steel Detailing Georgia

Native Tekla Structures modeling and detailing for fabricators who need NC1/DSTV files that plug directly into a CNC beam line, plate processor, or robotic saw with no rework. We build the model, extract shop and erection drawings from the same source, and export NC files, bolt lists, and material take-offs so your shop's ERP and your drawing set stay in sync.

  • Tekla Steel Detailing Georgia
  • Tekla Structures Services Georgia
109Takeoff

Steel Quantity Takeoff Georgia

Accurate material take-offs and bills of materials pulled directly from the detailed model - tonnage by shape, bolt counts by size and grade, weld inch totals, and coating area - so your estimating and purchasing teams are bidding and buying against real quantities, not a rough structural-engineer estimate. Delivered as a sortable spreadsheet alongside the drawing set.

  • Steel Takeoff and Detailing
  • Bill of Materials Steel Detailing
110PEMB

PEMB & Metal Building Detailing Georgia

Detailing for pre-engineered metal buildings and metal building systems - primary and secondary framing, girts and purlins, bracing, and standing-seam panel layouts - coordinated with your PEMB manufacturer's engineering package. Common on Georgia's warehouse, distribution-center, and light-industrial projects, where speed to fabrication drives the schedule as much as accuracy does.

  • Metal Building Detailing Georgia
  • Steel Building Detailing Georgia

The Toolset

Software We Detail In

We model and detail in the platforms Georgia fabricators and steel erectors already run, and we export in whatever file format your shop's machinery expects. See how we compare AutoCAD and Revit when a project needs both 2D sheets and a coordinated model.

  • Primary

    Tekla Structures

    Full 3D modeling, drawing extraction & NC1 export

  • Fabrication

    SDS-2 / SDS2

    Connection design & shop-floor detailing

  • 2D Drafting

    AutoCAD

    Shop, erection & permit-drawing sets

  • Coordination

    Revit

    Structural BIM & multi-discipline models

  • Clash Review

    Navisworks

    Federated model coordination & clash reports

  • Markup

    Bluebeam Revu

    RFI response & submittal review

  • Modeling

    Advance Steel

    AutoCAD-based structural steel modeling

  • CNC Export

    DSTV-NC1 / IFC

    Direct-to-machine file output

Code & Standards Compliance

Detailed to the Codes Georgia Actually Enforces

Georgia adopted the 2024 International Code family - IBC, IRC, IMC, IFGC, IPC, and ISPSC - along with state-specific Georgia Amendments, effective statewide January 1, 2026, moving directly from the 2018 code cycle. The 2026 Georgia Amendments to the 2023 National Electrical Code took effect the same date. We track these adoption dates by jurisdiction and detail every steel package to the code cycle your building department is actually enforcing at permit submittal.

AISC 360-22

Specification for Structural Steel Buildings - governs member design, connection capacity & detailing tolerances

AISC 303

Code of Standard Practice for Steel Buildings & Bridges - governs detailer/fabricator/erector responsibilities

AWS D1.1 / D1.5

Structural Welding Code (Steel / Bridge) - weld symbol standards & procedure qualification

RCSC 2020

Specification for Structural Joints Using High-Strength Bolts

2024 IBC + GA Amendments

Statewide since Jan 1, 2026 - building & occupancy-driven structural requirements

Bridge & DOT work

Structural steel detailing for GDOT and transportation projects is additionally detailed to GDOT Standard Specifications and AASHTO/AWS D1.5 bridge-welding requirements, distinct from the building-steel standards above.

Why Demand Is Rising

Georgia's Steel Construction Pipeline, By the Numbers

Three market forces are driving structural steel volume in Georgia right now - and driving detailing capacity to become the bottleneck for fabricators who try to keep it all in-house.

  • $100B+

    Atlanta Data Center Corridor

    Hyperscale and colocation data-center construction concentrated along the I-85 south and I-20 west corridors is driving sustained structural and pre-engineered steel demand across metro Atlanta.

  • $7.6B

    Hyundai Metaplant, Savannah

    The Hyundai Metaplant America and its supplier ecosystem near Savannah continue to generate structural and miscellaneous steel packages across the coastal Georgia industrial corridor.

  • $5B

    Rivian, Social Circle

    Vertical construction is now underway at Rivian's roughly 9-million-square-foot EV plant east of Atlanta, with structural steel packages moving through fabrication as the project ramps toward 2028 production.

Who We Detail For

Industries We Serve Across Georgia

Commercial & Office

Industrial & Manufacturing

Warehouse & Distribution

Data Centers

Multi-Family Residential

Healthcare & Institutional

Education & Government

Bridges & Transportation

How It Works

From Structural Drawings to Fabrication-Ready Set

  1. 01

    Submit Drawings

    Send us your structural engineer's design set and specifications for a scoped quote within 24 hours.

  2. 02

    Model & Detail

    Our team builds the model and connection design in Tekla or SDS-2, checked against AISC 360-22.

  3. 03

    Internal QA

    A second detailer checks every piece mark, weld symbol, and bolt schedule before issue.

  4. 04

    Review & Revise

    You mark up drawings in Bluebeam; we turn revisions same-week, clouded and version-tracked.

  5. 05

    Issue for Fabrication

    Final shop, erection & NC1 files delivered, ready for your shop floor and field crew.

Industry Whys

Why Georgia Fabricators & Contractors Choose Drafting Buddies

  • Experience

    Steel-Only Detailing Focus

    Our detailers work structural steel exclusively - not a generalist CAD desk splitting time across MEP, civil, and architectural work.

  • Code Current

    Georgia Code Tracked Live

    We monitor Georgia's building-code adoption timeline by jurisdiction so your permit set is never detailed to a superseded cycle.

  • Shop-Ready

    Fabrication-Floor Accuracy

    Piece marks, NC files, and bolt lists formatted to match how your shop actually runs production - not generic templates.

  • Turnaround

    Fast, Predictable Revisions

    Named detailer per project, clouded revisions, and turnaround measured in days so your fabrication schedule doesn't slip.

  • Track Record

    A+ BBB Rated Since 2014

    Austin-founded, serving all 50 states with a documented track record fabricators and GCs can verify independently.

  • Transparent

    Fixed, Scoped Pricing

    Quoted per ton, per connection, or per drawing sheet upfront - no scope creep buried in a change order later.

Statewide Coverage

Steel Detailing Services Across Georgia

Remote detailing means location never limits scope - we support fabricators and contractors in every Georgia market below and beyond. See related drafting services in Georgia, BIM services in Georgia and shop drawings in Georgia for coordinated production.

  • Atlanta
  • Savannah
  • Augusta
  • Columbus
  • Macon
  • Athens
  • Marietta
  • Alpharetta
  • Roswell
  • Sandy Springs
  • Warner Robins
  • Albany
  • Johns Creek
  • Smyrna
  • Dunwoody
  • Gainesville
  • Valdosta
  • Newnan
  • Social Circle

Client Feedback

What Georgia Fabricators & Contractors Say

“They caught two bolt-hole conflicts in our connection package before it ever reached the shop. That alone paid for the detailing on this job.”

Shop Manager

Structural Fabricator, Metro Atlanta

“Turnaround on revisions is the fastest we've worked with. We send Bluebeam markups Monday, get clouded drawings back by Wednesday.”

Project Manager

Steel Erector, Coastal Georgia

“Our Tekla models come back clean and export straight to our CNC line without rework. That's rarer than it should be.”

Operations Lead

PEMB Fabricator, Georgia

Steel Detailing in Georgia: Frequently Asked Questions

Common Questions

Structural steel detailing is the process of turning a structural engineer's design drawings into fabrication-ready shop drawings and erection drawings - specifying exact dimensions, connection types, weld symbols, bolt patterns, and piece marks so a fabrication shop can cut, drill, and assemble steel accurately and a field crew can erect it safely.

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Send your structural drawings and we'll return a scoped, fixed quote within 24 hours - no obligation, no scope surprises later. Or contact our team directly.