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Prefabricated steel buildings, engineered for warehouses

Six building types, 12–60 m clear span, designed to your local wind and snow load.

Section of a grey prefabricated steel portal frame with a bolted haunch and purlins

Building types and clear spans

Wide exterior of a long single-storey clear-span steel logistics warehouse: low roof pitch, grey-blue profiled wall cladding, two roller shutter doors along the near elevation, plain concrete apron, flat white overcast sky

Warehouse and logistics building

12–45 m clear spaneave 6–12 m
Wide exterior of a taller steel manufacturing workshop: exposed white-painted portal frame, cross bracing at the gable end, ridge roof ventilators, roller shutter door, plain concrete yard, flat white overcast sky

Manufacturing workshop

15–36 mcrane runway to 20 t
Wide exterior of a low closed-sided steel poultry house: shallow pitch roof, insulated sandwich panel walls, ventilation ridge along the full length, short concrete apron, flat white overcast sky

Poultry and livestock house

12–24 minsulated sandwich panel
Wide exterior of a steel aircraft hangar with a very wide clear span: full-height sliding door closed across the near gable, grey-blue profiled cladding, deep roof portal visible above the door, plain concrete apron, flat white overcast sky

Aircraft hangar

30–60 m clear spansliding or bi-fold door
Wide exterior of a steel sports and recreation hall: pitched roof over a glazed end wall, white-painted frame visible through the glass, grey-blue cladding on the side elevation, plain paved forecourt, flat white overcast sky

Sports and recreation hall

24–48 mpurlin at 1.5 m
Wide exterior of a multi-storey steel frame building under construction: two or three storeys of exposed white-painted columns and beams, composite decking partly laid on the upper floor, edge protection at the slab edge, bare ground in front, flat white overcast sky

Multi-storey steel frame

6–12 m grid2–5 storeys

Compare spans and eave heights

A large printed general arrangement drawing of a steel portal frame spread out on a desk, a rolled drawing and a steel section table beside it, a laptop showing a bare steel-frame wireframe model, and a physical bolted end-plate connection sample resting on the corner of the drawing; one engineer hand and forearm only, no face
Engineering

Designed to your local code

Loads are taken from your site, not from a catalogue span table.

Eurocode 3, MBMA, AS/NZS 4600 or GB 50017 — the kit ships with general arrangement, anchor bolt and fabrication drawings plus an erection schedule.

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Projects

Buildings we have shipped

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A portal frame steel structure standing bare on site during erection: columns and rafters bolted together in a long bay, purlins partly fixed, the edge of a crane boom just inside the left of the frame, bare compacted ground, flat white overcast skyUnder erection

Chile — distribution centre, 12,000 m² · 42 m clear span · 2024

Fabrication and inspection

Inside a steel fabrication shop: an H-beam assembly line running away from the camera, white-painted members supported on roller stands, a submerged-arc welding gantry working mid-frame, a shot-blasting machine and grey primer booth along one side, cool-white high-bay lighting with daylight spilling in from the open roller door at the far end
H-beam line, submerged-arc welding
  1. 01Cutting and drillingCNC plasma · CNC drilling
  2. 02Assembly and weldingAWS D1.1 · EN 1090-2 welders
  3. 03Shot blasting and primingSa 2.5 blast · primer and topcoat
  4. 04Inspection and loadingUT · MT · coating gauge

Standards: EN 1090-2 · AISC 360 · ISO 9001:2015 · CE marking — certificate copies on request.

The works

The Qingdao works

Since 2005 we have designed and fabricated prefabricated steel buildings in Qingdao — 260 people and five process lines under one roof.

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Configure your building

Two answers are enough for us to come back with a scope and a budget range.

Container loading yard at a steel structure works: finished white-painted columns and rafters banded onto timber dunnage with steel strapping, members marked and stacked in bundles, and a 40-foot container on the ground being loaded by forklift under a flat white overcast sky

Warehouse and logistics building, 15–24 m clear span.

  • Quote comes back within two working days, with a scope and a budget range.
  • Send the site location, span, eave height and door or crane requirements.
  • Erection drawings and a bolt schedule ship with every kit.

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