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On 4 August 2025, Shah PEB Private Limited erected a 35,100 sq ft industrial pre-engineered building at Betma, near Indore in Madhya Pradesh, in 34 hours and 30 minutes. The attempt was verified and certified by Harvard World Records, London as the fastest erection of an industrial PEB structure.
Fifty skilled workers ran the erection continuously, through a full night, under live site conditions. This was a real client building on a real site, not a demonstration structure put up to be taken down afterwards. It is still standing and in use.
The record was adjudicated and certified by Harvard World Records, London. The certificate names Shah PEB Private Limited as the record holder for the following achievement:
Fastest erection of an industrial PEB structure — 35,100 sq ft completed in 34 hours 30 minutes.
The full certificate is reproduced below. If it does not load in your browser, you can open the certificate PDF directly.
We will say the obvious thing first: your building will not go up in 34 hours. A record attempt is run with everything prepared, every crew briefed and every component on site in sequence. Normal projects do not work that way, and we would not promise you they do.
What the record does prove is harder to claim any other way, and it is the part that matters on an ordinary job.
In 34 hours there is no time to correct a member that does not fit. Every column, rafter, purlin and bolt hole had to match the drawing exactly, and the drawing had to match the foundation already poured on site. That is a test of the design and detailing office, not of the erection crew. See how we handle design and detailing.
Components were fabricated in our own plant at Pithampur. Nothing was sent out to a job-work shop. When fabrication and erection sit in the same company, a dimension error does not turn into a week of arguments about whose fault it is. It gets found before dispatch. See the buildings we manufacture.
Erection speed is a coordination problem more than a labour problem. Fifty workers on one site, running through a full night without stopping, only works if the sequence is planned down to which bay goes up when. The same planning discipline is what keeps an ordinary six-week erection on schedule.
The structure at Betma was a working industrial building for a client, built to their specification, and it is still in use. A record set on a throwaway structure proves very little. One set on a building that had to pass inspection and go into service proves rather more.
Harvard World Records, London. The attempt was adjudicated and the Certificate of Record Holder was issued to Shah PEB Private Limited for the fastest erection of an industrial PEB structure. The certificate is reproduced in full on this page, with the issuing body, date, site and workforce stated on it.
A real building. The 35,100 sq ft structure at Betma was a working industrial building for a client, built to their specification, and it is still standing and in use. It was not a demonstration frame erected for the record and then dismantled. That distinction matters, because a structure that has to pass inspection and go into service cannot cut anything to save time.
No. The record is for erection, and that is what the certificate states: fastest erection of an industrial PEB structure. Foundation and civil work happen before erection begins, as they do on every project. The 34 hours 30 minutes covers putting the steel structure up on a foundation that was already complete and cured.
No, and we would not tell you otherwise. A record attempt is run with every component on site in sequence, every crew briefed in advance, and the schedule built around the attempt. An ordinary project balances erection against material deliveries, other contractors on site, weather and the client's own timelines. What carries over is the planning method and the crews, not the clock.
It depends on the size of the structure, the span, whether a crane girder is involved, and site access. The honest answer is that erection is rarely the slowest part of a PEB project. Design approval and foundation work usually take longer. We give a dated erection schedule with the quotation, and because fabrication and erection are both ours, that date is one we control rather than one we are passing on from a subcontractor.
The size is not the point. What the attempt tested was whether the drawings, the fabrication and the erection sequence were accurate enough to go up without corrections. On a small shed that same accuracy means your frame fits the anchor bolts first time and your crew is not waiting on site while something is re-cut. That is worth more on a small project than on a large one, because a small project has less slack in it.
Yes. The erection crews are ours, not hired in for the attempt, and the design and fabrication were done in-house at our Pithampur facility. The same people and the same method run on standard factory sheds, warehouses and mezzanine projects across Madhya Pradesh and pan-India.
The planning, the drawing accuracy and the crews that made 34 hours possible at Betma are the same ones that go to an ordinary factory shed in Dewas or a warehouse in Pithampur. Tell us the plot size, the clear height you need and whether a crane is going in, and we will come back with a structural approach and a dated schedule.
Designed, fabricated and erected in-house from our plant at Pithampur, near Indore. Projects across Madhya Pradesh and pan-India.
