PEB Products - Industrial Sheds, Warehouses & Steel Buildings

Structurally they are the same family of building. The difference is what goes inside, and that changes the design. A warehouse is built around storage: clear height for racking, dock levels, and a floor that takes forklift traffic. An industrial or factory shed is built around machinery: equipment foundations, crane loads, power and ventilation routes, and bay spacing that suits the production line. Two buildings of the same floor area can carry very different steel weights for this reason.

Yes, in length, by removing an end wall and adding bays. This is one of the real advantages a PEB has over conventional construction. But it only works cleanly if the end frame was designed as an expandable frame from the start. Designing for expansion before fabrication adds very little cost. Doing it afterwards means replacing the end frame, which is a far bigger job. If expansion is even a possibility, tell us at the design stage.

A properly designed and maintained PEB has a service life comparable to conventional construction, and often longer in industrial use because steel does not crack or settle the way masonry does. What decides lifespan is not the frame but the protection on it: the paint or galvanising specification, the sheet coating, and whether the environment inside is corrosive. A shed in a chemical or coastal environment needs a different specification from one in a dry inland site, and quoting both the same way is where problems start.

Often yes, and it is one of the most common requests we get. The mezzanine usually stands on its own columns rather than loading the existing frame, so the main questions are floor loading, available clear height, and whether the existing foundation can take the new column loads. We need to see the building before committing to this, because the answer depends entirely on how the original structure was built.

They do if ventilation and sheeting are treated as an afterthought, which is common in cheaper builds. Done properly, heat is managed through roof insulation, turbo or ridge ventilators, eave openings that let air move, and roof monitors or skylights that bring in daylight without bringing in heat. These are the items most often cut to make a quotation look competitive, and they are the items you notice every working day once the building is in use.

No. Showrooms, sports halls, hotels, hospitals, car parking structures and multi-storey commercial buildings are all built this way. Anywhere that benefits from large column-free spans, a fast build programme, or a structure that can be extended later is a candidate. The finish is a separate decision from the frame, so a steel-framed showroom does not have to look like a shed.

At minimum: design loads used, steel weight or tonnage, sheet profile and thickness for roof and walls, the accessories included by name and quantity, and what is excluded. Two quotations for the same building can differ by a wide margin purely because one assumed lighter secondary members and fewer ventilators. If a quotation gives you only a rate per square foot, you have no way to compare it with another.

Less than most owners expect, but not none. Gutters and downpipes need clearing before the monsoon, fasteners and sheet laps should be checked periodically, and any paint damage on exposed steel should be touched up before it spreads. We provide maintenance guidance at handover, and because we hold the design and fabrication records, a query years later does not start from scratch.