Customizing for Efficiency: Designing a Prefabricated Warehouse for Your Needs

A prefabricated warehouse building makes for a durable, long-lasting, and cost-effective storage facility. Since it’s made of steel, it’s also quick and easy to erect, streamlining your construction times and reducing labor costs. These benefits are guaranteed when you work with a seasoned metal building fabricator.

At Armstrong Steel, we offer customizable prefabricated metal building kits designed specifically to suit your unique needs. Whether this is your first time building with steel or you want to invest in a new storage facility, our experts are here to help. Our engineers and designers are extensively experienced in various customs designs, ensuring the most economical and highest quality solutions in today’s market.

That said, we understand that designing a prefabricated warehouse building can be daunting. So, for this blog, we will share how we design these structures and how our team works with you to ensure the building fits your exact requirements.

Why design matters for a prefabricated steel warehouse

For many businesses, a warehouse is not just a storage facility. It can have dedicated spaces for office work, lifts, and other needs. This is why we carefully plan every prefabricated steel warehouse to ensure sufficient space for your requirements. For more flexibility, we offer clear-span and modular layouts to support a wide range of operations and needs, such as manufacturing areas, storage, and offices.

What do you need to do?

At Armstrong Steel, our building consultants will work with you to understand your unique business requirements. By knowing the purpose of your prefabricated warehouse building, we can help you create effective spaces and optimize your building’s use.

Do you need a special area for filing paperwork? Our building designers and engineers will ensure the support structure can accommodate large amounts of documents. Plus, they will make future expansions possible if you need more room later.

Does your warehouse require a specific room for medical or scientific purposes? It may need to have partitions to create an air shower or clean room. Armstrong Steel building desingers can customize your prefabricated warehouse building to have enough space for that.

In some cases, you might need a temporary office or a meeting area to facilitate private discussions or staff briefings. Our team can design your warehouse to have sufficient space to accommodate those spaces.

What goes into designing your prefabricated steel warehouse?

Depending on your requirements, we can make your metal warehouse with few to no interior columns. This ensures utmost layout flexibility that lets you modify your space for storage, installing lifts, office work, or creating dedicated areas for other needs.

In addition, we can provide larger openings for rolling, overhead, or sliding doors. This makes your prefabricated warehouse building suited for moving oversized equipment or bulk goods quickly. From an aviation or agricultural perspective, this feature allows you to store aircraft or farm vehicles and equipment.

Considering your design requirements

Our prefabricated steel warehouses are versatile. With various framing systems, we can design your building for any application. It’s also possible for us to make your warehouse look less industrial and more consistent with the other structures on your property. This is because it’s easy to integrate other construction materials with our pre-engineered steel building systems.

Steel offers flexibility for every exterior or interior finish, ensuring your warehouse can support any wall and roofing material, including stucco, brick, CMU, metal panels, and shingles. At Armstrong Steel, our reliable and skilled building consultants will help you achieve the aesthetic you want for your warehouse.

No waste, save money.

At Armstrong Steel, we are proud of our ability to optimize our use of resources. We design your prefabricated warehouse building in-house to eliminate residual waste. This means you only have to pay for the materials we use. This is impossible when building with wood.

Also, we carefully engineer your structure according to your local building codes and load-bearing needs to reduce excessive material usage. This is why we ask for your location during our quotation process.

And since your steel warehouse is pre-engineered, every component is designed to fit seamlessly. This can decrease your labor costs. Our engineers meticulously prepare a step-by-step erection guide, assembly drawings, and anchor bolt patterns. Simply refer to them to know where numbered components and pre-punched connections go. All this helps streamline erection and save you money.

What are your future plans?

Over time, you may need to expand your prefabricated warehouse building to keep up with your growing business. Armstrong Steel building systems come in virtually endless lengths, widths, and heights, allowing us to configure the size according to your unique requirements and situation. Plus, the uninterrupted clear-span and modular interior space makes it possible to extend the length or width in many ways, simplifying future expansions.

A few considerations when designing your metal warehouse

Typically, most of our customers want to know how much building they can afford. Many factors can influence the cost of prefabricated steel warehouses, such as size, level of customization, permitting fees, and insurance. Additionally, you want to ensure enough square footage. So, we recommend analyzing your needs for a smoother design process.

Contact us if you need further guidance. We want to hear your requirements so we can price your prefabricated warehouse building and help you decide if an Armstrong Steel building system is right for you. Get a quote here or call us at 1-800-345-4610.

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