2024-08-05
The Benefits of Prefab Steel Warehouses
Steel is an extremely strong building material. With steel, it’s possible to do clearspan construction, which means there’s no need to have load bearing walls or columns to hold up a roof – the steel frame is strong enough to do that on its own. Buildings with a clearspan design can be anywhere from 150 feet to 250 feet wide, with no columns to get in the way.And if your building needs to be even wider than 250 feet, its possible to place a central load-bearing column in the center of the building, and have clearspan construction for 250 feet on either side of that central column. In this way a steel structure warehouse or distribution center can actually be as large as a business needs it to be, and it’s always possible to add another 250-foot addition (with another central column) to the building if yet more space is needed in the future.These buildings can also be up to 40 feet high, giving yet more space for stacks of pallets. The ceiling structure can also be designed to bear more weight, if the business wishes to add a building wide sprinkler system, for example, or an overhead crane.