Industrial Buildings
Industrial building construction across Pakistan. Factory buildings, production halls and plant buildings in structural steel, designed around your process and services, fabricated and erected nationwide.
MS & SS Work
In-House Fabrication
Built to Drawing
Or We Measure
Nationwide
Delivery & Erection
Coded Welding
Inspected Joints
The Challenge
A shed keeps rain off. A factory has to satisfy the law, house a process and serve the people working inside it. Those are different jobs and they are priced differently.
This is the part most buyers discover after the steel is up.
Chapter III of the Factories Act 1934 covers health and safety inside a factory, and several of its requirements are building design inputs, not operating rules.
Section 18 limits overcrowding. A factory built after the Labour Laws Amendment Ordinance of 1972 must provide at least five hundred cubic feet of space for every worker in a work room. Older premises fall under a three hundred and fifty cubic foot figure.
Read that again, because it changes how the building gets sized. It is a volume rule, not a floor area rule. Two hundred workers in one hall means at least a hundred thousand cubic feet of work room, and that drives eaves height as much as it drives footprint. You cannot size a production building from square feet and a headcount added later.
The same chapter requires effective drainage where a floor is liable to get wet during a manufacturing process, provisions for ventilation and temperature, control of dust and fume, sufficient and suitable lighting, and emergency lighting at defined points that comes on automatically when the ordinary electric supply fails. In a country with load shedding, that last one is not a formality.
Employer duties then sit under the Punjab Occupational Safety and Health Act 2019.
The second expensive discovery.
A crane loads the building through the runway, into the columns, into the foundations. Designing for that from the start costs a modest increase in section sizes. Adding it later means strengthening columns that are already carrying a roof, and sometimes underpinning foundations that are already in the ground.
Clear height is the other half. Hook height comes off the space under the frame, so if the crane was not in the brief, the building is often the wrong height for it no matter what you do to the columns.
If a crane is even possible in the next ten years, say so at design stage.
What We Supply
Factory buildings where the process, the services and the layout are designed together rather than fitted into a finished box.
Production halls and manufacturing buildings with clear working volume, crane provision and process services designed in.
Processing plant buildings where drainage, washdown, ventilation and material flow drive the design.
Warehouse buildings where floor loading, racking layout and vehicle access govern everything else.
How It Works
Columns, brackets and runway support sized for the wheel loads from day one, coordinated with our overhead crane support structures work so the building and the machine are engineered as one job.
Added area inside the same footprint. Designed for the loading you will actually put on it, with access and stairs planned into the layout rather than added at a corner.
Ventilation is sized against the heat your process generates and the summer you work through, using ridge ventilators, louvres and powered extraction as the case needs. A building in Multan or Sukkur has a harder job than the same building in Hattar.
Drainage splits in two. Process drainage handles washdown and spillage, with falls set so water reaches the gullies instead of standing. Stormwater has to move a monsoon downpour off a large roof in a short time, which means gutters and downpipes sized against real rainfall intensity rather than habit.
Dock height matched to the vehicles you actually receive, standing space for them to manoeuvre, and gates sized for your largest load rather than your average one.
The floor is what separates a plant building from a shed. Slab thickness follows point loads from machines and racking legs. Flatness matters where forklifts run at height. Joint layout decides where the slab cracks, because it will crack somewhere. Surface treatment follows what gets spilled on it.
Insulation and cladding are chosen against internal conditions, since a process that must stay at a temperature is a different specification from a store.
Detail
1. Process and layout. What is made, how it moves, how many people, what equipment and where the services run.
2. Building and services design. Structure, ventilation, drainage, lighting and floor designed together against the statutory requirements above.
3. Crane and mezzanine provision. Loads calculated and built into the frame at the start.
4. Fabrication. Structural steel made in our workshop, covered on our structural steel fabrication page.
5. Erection. Frame, envelope and openings.
6. Services fit out and handover. Systems completed, with drawings and records issued.
Design is carried out against the Building Code of Pakistan, whose seismic provisions divide the country into five zones and which was carried into the 2021 edition.
Standards
Send floor area if you have it, plus the process, the equipment list, the headcount and whether a crane is required now or later.
This page sits under our steel fabrication services range.
Questions
Scope. A prefabricated shed is the structure and the envelope: frame, roof, walls, gutters and doors. An industrial building is that shell plus everything that makes it a working, legal workplace. Floor slab designed for your loads, ventilation, drainage, lighting and emergency lighting, loading bays, mezzanines and crane provision, sized against the Factories Act requirements for the people inside it. If you only need covered space, buy the shed. If people will work a process in there, you need the second one.
Yes, and it costs far less at design stage than afterwards. Wheel loads pass into columns and foundations, and clear height decides hook height, so both have to be set before the frame is made.
Yes, designed against the loading you specify. Tell us what goes on it, because a storage mezzanine and one carrying machinery are different structures.
Ventilation is sized on process heat and local summer conditions. Drainage is designed twice, once for process water where the Act requires effective drainage on floors that get wet, and once for monsoon stormwater off the roof.
Often. The existing structure and foundations are surveyed first, because an extension usually loads the original frame at the junction. We say what is possible before quoting.
Give us the process, the equipment and the headcount, not just a floor area. The five hundred cubic feet per worker requirement means volume and height are part of the answer, and a building sized only on square feet can fail an inspection while standing half empty.
