LeanSteel: Design. Build. Better.

Ultium Cell Battery Plant 3

Lansing, Michigan Building on the success of the Ultium 2 Cells Battery Plant Facility The 3rd of the U.S.-based Ultium Cells Battery Plants, this new 2.8 million square foot facility will provide electric vehicle batteries to the General Motors Lake Orion, Michigan plant and other nearby GM facilities. Ultium Cells, LLC is a joint venture […]

GM Manufacturing Body Shop Program

Workers build and inspect the steel structure of the GM Manufacturing Body Shop.

Flint/Ft. Wayne/Arlington/Silao, Michigan, Indiana, Texas and Mexico Working with a co-located multi-disciplinary team to complete a $1 billion program. As structural engineer of record, Ruby worked together with a co-located design-build team at Barton Malow’s office to complete the structural design and steel shop fabrication drawings for this large four-site program for General Motors. Each […]

GM Body to Paint Shop Conveyor

The GM Body to Paint Shop Conveyor spans across several sections of the building.

Arlington, Texas Engineering a true ‘out-of-the-box’ solution with a rooftop conveyor system. For this project, which included adding a rooftop conveyor system from the body shop to the paint shop at the GM Arlington full-size SUV manufacturing facility, Ruby’s LeanSteel® team designed and detailed, provided connection design, construction engineering and reinforcement services.  Within the plant, […]

GM Technical Center Pedestrian Bridge

A crane lifts sections of the GM Technical Center Pedestrian Bridge.

Warren, Michigan Engineering a connector quickly, using an expedited design and detail process. GM’s goal of creating a more collaborative environment for its engineering teams within the separate Estes and Cole Engineering Center buildings was realized with the design and construction of a 310-foot, 140-ton pedestrian connector between the two buildings. For our client Ideal […]

Iatan Generating Station

A crane lowers a section of the Iatan Generating Station into place.

Weston, Missouri AP ComPower and Kansas City Power and Light were installing boiler and selective catalyst reduction (SCR) equipment at this coal-fired plant. Because this equipment is irregularly shaped, Ruby worked hand-in-hand with the owner’s on-site personnel to develop lifting procedures that would utilize available rigging equipment while accommodating congested field conditions. A LeanSteel® approach […]