High Steel's West Point Building.

Constructioneer, February, 2007

Edited by Matthew Phair The bridge fabricator brings its expertise to tackle a tall order. Butler Manufacturing of Annville, Pa., and High Steel Structures Inc. of Lancaster, Pa., teamed up to fabricate steel framing used to build a new athletic center at West Point, a project that began in June 2006.

The 92,000-square-foot Athletic Center is adjacent to Michie Stadium, the venerable football stadium at West Point. Butler Manufacturing had the lead on designing the frames and called upon assistance from High Steel Structures, a bridge superstructure fabricator, as an efficient approach to making the larger components for the project. High Steel Structures has found that providing strategic assistance to building fabricators such as Butler is a...

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