For Architects & Designers

Fabricated to your drawing.

ARC is the design studio of Bromley Steel, a Christchurch workshop with nearly thirty years of structural fabrication behind it. Bring us your details and we make the steel, engineered, finished and installed to your intent.

A Bromley Steel welder fabricating architectural steel, sparks and blue arc light

Why specify ARC

A fabrication partner, not a catalogue.

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To your detailing

We work from your drawings and details, holding the proportions, junctions and tolerances you have designed. Nothing is trimmed to fit a standard range.

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Engineered, with PS1

Structural pieces are engineered and documented by Bromley Steel, with a PS1 producer statement provided where your consent requires one.

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Code compliant

Stairs, balustrades and barriers are designed to the NZ Building Code, including F4 fall protection, so a piece is never beautiful but non-compliant.

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Five finishes

Corten, blackened, brushed, powder-coat colour and powder-coated white. Request a physical sample set for your library.

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Residential and commercial

From a single floating stair to a run of corten facade screens, the workshop scales from one-off pieces to commercial quantities.

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We credit your practice

We work alongside you and your builder, and we credit the practice on every project we publish. Your design, our fabrication.

Scope, clearly

We make the steel. The hand-offs are planned, not surprises.

ARC supplies the designed, engineered and finished steelwork, and organises the glazing for our Crittall-style windows and doors. Staircase treads, masonry surrounds, gate automation, pergola roofing and consent are completed by your builder or a specialist. We coordinate these directly so your programme runs clean.

How we work

From your drawing to installed.

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Drawings

Send us your plans, sections and details, even early ones. We review for fabrication and feasibility.

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Detailing & quote

We develop shop drawings to your intent and issue a firm fixed price before anything is cut.

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Engineering

Where needed, the piece is engineered and a PS1 prepared to support consent.

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Fabrication

Cut, welded and finished by hand in the Christchurch workshop, to your chosen finish.

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Delivery & install

We deliver and install the steel, coordinating with the builder for treads, glass and surrounds.

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On the programme

Involve us at design stage for the cleanest result. Bespoke steel is made, not stocked, so early is best.

Specifier resources

Tools for your library.

Sample pack

A posted box of the five steel finish swatches, plus a capability and finish guide for your sample drawer.

Request a sample pack

Talk to the studio

Working on a project? Send the drawings and we will come back with feasibility and a price.

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Backed by Bromley Steel

Three decades of structural steel, behind every weld.

ARC is the design studio of Bromley Steel, so every piece is backed by a commercial fabrication shop, certified welders and engineering sign-off. Beauty you can specify with confidence.

Let's build your detail.

Send us your drawings and we will take it from there.

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