Industrial Steel Structures · Workshop & Warehouse
Steel Structure Workshop & Warehouse — One Building, Two Full-Time Jobs
A workshop runs production; a warehouse holds inventory — and most suppliers sell you one of them, then discover the other on site. We design the frame for both jobs from day one, because the differences are structural, not cosmetic.
Clear-Span 15–60 m no columns in your way | Crane-Ready ≤30 t runways framed into the columns | Rack-Ready Floors we draw the slab loading map | Grows Bay-by-Bay bolt on length, no shutdown |

Two Jobs, Two Different Buildings — We Design for Both
What changes between workshop mode and warehouse mode isn't the signage. It's the structure:
| Design question | As a workshop… | As a warehouse… | How the frame answers |
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| Height buys you… | headroom for machines, cranes and ducting | cube — every extra meter stacks one more rack level | eave height 6–12 m set by YOUR job; wind area re-checked when it changes |
| What the floor hates | press feet, forklift traffic lanes, oil | rack legs: 100+ kN point loads, tight turn aisles | a slab loading map issued WITH the steel drawings — the screed follows our plan, not guesswork |
| Air & heat | fumes and process heat: ridge louvers, extract fans | stratification: high-level vents + destratification fans | openings pre-framed in the design — cut panels are how warranty claims start |
| Doors | personnel doors, machine bays, dust control | dock levelers, drive-in doors, security | every header sized and stiffened at design stage; mezzanine freight lifts sit inside the grid |
| The five-year flip | line moves → half the floor is "just storage" | e-commerce grows → you need a packing line inside | one bolted frame serves both — conversion happens in panels and services, not demolition |
Tell us the split in your first email — "60% production line, 40% racking" is a complete brief. The Tekla model tests both layouts before a beam is cut.
Plan the Fifth Year on Day One
Almost every workshop becomes a bigger workshop. The expansion cost is decided before the first concrete pour:
| ① End the braced frame where growth attaches. The bracing bay sits at the plot-boundary end, not mid-building — future bays bolt on like train carriages. | ② Anchor bolts for future columns, ordered now. A handful of bolts cast into fresh concrete is free; drilling cured slab later is dust, downtime and doubt. |
| ③ Keep bay spacing standard. 6–9 m bays mean an added bay is a catalogue item — matched purlins, girts and cladding, no site measuring. | ④ Size gutters & downpipes for the final footprint. The cheapest time to upsize a drain is when it has not been installed yet. |
These four decisions add ≈ nothing to day-one cost and remove the #1 reason expansions stop the plant for weeks.
7 dedicated steel fabrication lines | 50,000 t/yr capacity — your job is never in a queue behind a stranger's | 100% BIM PKPM · 3D3S · Tekla — design to delivery, one model |
See Your Building Before It's Built — Our In-House 3D Designer
A real output from the parametric design tool our engineers run in-house: send dimensions, get the 3D model, a render of your actual building and a budget breakdown with an item-by-item BOQ — in minutes, not engineering weeks.

Specification
| Item | Workshop & Warehouse Package |
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| Structural system | Welded H-section portal frame or truss, all-bolted site assembly; Q235B/Q355B · A36/A572 · S235–S355 |
| Size range | Clear span 15–60 m · length unlimited (bay-by-bay) · eave 6–12 m · bays 6–9 m |
| Lifting | Overhead cranes to 30 t, monorails, jibs — runway beams and stops designed into the frame |
| Mezzanine | 2nd/3rd level at 5–10 kN/m²; stairs and freight lifts coordinated in the model |
| Envelope | Single corrugated up to EPS/rockwool/PU sandwich panels 50–150 mm; ridge vents, louvers, skylights, dock doors |
| Floor interface | We issue the slab loading map + column layout for racks & machines with the steel drawings |
| Loads & codes | Wind & snow per ASCE 7-22 / EN 1991 (site data) · AISC 360 / Eurocode 3 / AS 4100 · coating ISO 12944 & HDG ISO 1461 · ISO 9001 |
| What ships | Numbered members, anchor bolts, erection drawings, seaworthy packing & container loading plan, remote erection guidance |
| Lead time | 25–45 days fabrication · T/T 30% deposit, 70% before shipment |
| Four answers, and we can draw both jobs: |
| 1) production vs. storage split (%) · 2) racking or open floor — and the tallest thing you store · 3) crane now or later · 4) site city — layout options + tonnage + erection schedule back in 48 h. |