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Manpower planning for steel structure installation

Thread starter genewarun
Start date Apr 26, 2006

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Apr 26, 2006

genewarun

Mechanical

Hello everyone;

It's not a technical question, but if anyone's interested, how many manhours are required to erect a ton of steel structure (roughly), and what is the distribution of this manpower (erector, helper, foreman, welder and so on) assuming that all the joints are bolted?