Ironforge: Astro Construction Website Template
Heavy-construction site with a pinned horizontal reel and a self-drawing blueprint wire

About This Template
Ironforge is a dark industrial template for construction firms, civil engineers, and infrastructure contractors. Six pages cover the homepage, a project catalog, individual project case studies with client/location/year/value spec panels, services, an about page with the team, and a structured project-inquiry form. The centerpiece is a pinned horizontal showcase: the page locks and six project panels travel sideways while an SVG blueprint wire draws itself across the track via strokeDashoffset over a dashed guide line, a live 01/06 counter ticks in the corner, and each panel's copy and image animate independently through ScrollTrigger containerAnimation. The hero stacks IRONFORGE vertically letter by letter on a staggered rise, next to a crane photo that unveils with a clip-path wipe while the image counter-scales. Ships with three color skins, animated stat counters, a velocity-reactive client marquee, and 25 photographs.
Signature
The featured-projects section pins the viewport and sends six full-screen panels travelling sideways. Underneath them an SVG blueprint wire draws itself across the entire track over a dashed guide line — strokeDashoffset is mapped directly to scroll progress — while a 01/06 counter updates in the corner and a pulsing node dot rides each panel. Every panel's copy and image animate on their own ScrollTrigger using containerAnimation, so the reel reads like a site walkthrough rather than a carousel.
Features
- 6 pages — Home, Projects, Project detail, Services, About, Contact
- Pinned horizontal showcase — 6 project panels travel sideways with anticipatePin and invalidateOnRefresh
- Self-drawing SVG blueprint wire — strokeDashoffset traces the full track over a dashed guide line that glows when the reel completes
- Live 01/06 panel counter plus per-panel copy reveal and image parallax via ScrollTrigger containerAnimation
- Vertical letter-stack hero — IRONFORGE rises letter by letter on a 0.08s stagger beside a crane photo unveiled by a clip-path inset wipe with counter-scale
- Face-off hero exit — the photo clips to inset(40%) and dissolves on a scrub 1.5 timeline as you scroll away
- Animated stat counters — 47 years, 312 projects, 18 countries, $14.2B, with a reduced-motion static fallback
- 3 color skins via data-skin — Steel Night (default), Blueprint navy, Concrete Day light
- Velocity-reactive client marquee — 12 contractor names, timeScale accelerates up to 4x with scroll speed
- 4 content collections — 6 Markdown projects plus services, team and testimonials as typed JSON loaders
- Project detail pages with a 70vh cover, an overlapping spec card (client, location, year, value) and Markdown body
- Bento services grid with blur-to-sharp staggered reveals, plus 6 testimonials in masonry CSS columns that stagger in on scroll
- Auto-hiding nav — slides away on scroll down, returns on scroll up, glass blur past 50px
- Industrial atmosphere layer — SVG fractalNoise grain, blueprint grid, edge fades and outlined oversized type
- 25 photographs included — projects, services, team portraits and concrete/steel textures — plus @astrojs/sitemap, Open Graph, Twitter cards and canonical URLs
- Lenis smooth scroll + Astro View Transitions with full ScrollTrigger teardown on navigation
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Deployment
Tech Stack
Typography
Bebas Neue (headings) + DM Sans (body) — condensed uppercase signage energy against a neutral sans that keeps long spec tables readable
Color Palette
Steel Night — #0C0C0E near-black background with #141416 and #1C1C20 surfaces, safety-amber accent #D4880C, warm bone text #E8E4DF and #7A7872 muted. Alternate skins: Blueprint navy (#0A1628 background, #3B8BDB accent) and Concrete Day light (#F0EDE8 background, #1A1A1A text)
Details
Ironforge in detail
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Who it’s for
Construction companies, civil engineering firms and infrastructure contractors that want to present large projects with client, location, year and value on each one.
What makes it different
- Featured projects scroll sideways in full-screen panels while a blueprint line draws itself across them and a 01/06 counter tracks progress.
- Every project page shows a spec card with client, location, year and contract value next to the case study text.
- Three color skins (Steel Night, Blueprint navy, Concrete Day light) switch with a single attribute.
Pages included
- 01Home: hero, pinned horizontal project showcase, stats, client marquee
- 02Projects: filterable catalog by sector (infrastructure, commercial, transport, energy)
- 03Project detail: cover image, spec card (client, location, year, value) and case study text
- 04Services: bento grid of service lines
- 05About: company history and team
- 06Contact: project inquiry form with project type selector
What’s in the download
- README.md, CUSTOMIZATION.md and DEPLOYMENT.md guides
- LICENSE.md and IMAGE-CREDITS.md
- Four content collections: projects (6 Markdown files), services, team and testimonials
- 25 photographs of projects, services, team and textures
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