Smaller Warehouse — Single or Multiple Units, Option for Extending Units
A panelised light gauge steel warehouse supplied as one unit or a run of units — rolled from coil, assembled on factory jigs, stood with a telehandler, and designed so further units can be added later.
Project Details
Smaller industrial units built as panelised light gauge steel frames — load-bearing wall panels and lattice roof cassettes fabricated flat on factory jigs, delivered by lorry and erected on a prepared slab without a tower crane. Supplied as a single unit or as multiple units along a shared spine wall, with the option to extend by adding bays.
Key Highlights
- Wall and roof panels assembled flat on jigs under factory conditions
- Single unit or repeating bays along a shared spine wall — the same panel set either way
- Designed to extend: additional units add on at the end bay without rebuilding the existing frame
- Erected with a telehandler and access platform — no tower crane or heavy craneage
- X-braced end and party walls give lateral stability without a separate portal
Industrial units are usually hot-rolled portal frames — heavy sections, bolting at height, and a crane on site for the duration. This system replaces that with panelised light gauge steel: the walls are load-bearing stud panels, the roof is a set of lattice cassettes, and the whole thing is light enough to stand with a telehandler.
The photographs run from galvanised coil in the factory, through panels being assembled and squared on jigs, to the flat-packed load on the lorry and the frames standing on site — a single unit on one site, a run of several units sharing a spine wall on another.
Because the model resolves one bay and the roll-former repeats it, the same panel set serves a single unit or a terrace of them, and a further unit can be added to the end bay later without disturbing what is already built. On site the slab is the only wet trade: panels are lifted off the lorry, stood, braced and tied together bay by bay, with the roof cassettes dropped in behind.
System Material Specifications
| Structural System | Panelised light gauge steel wall frames with lattice roof cassettes |
| Configuration | Single unit, or multiple units along a shared spine wall |
| Extension | Additional units add on at the end bay of the existing frame |
| Fabrication | Rolled from galvanised coil, panels assembled on factory jigs and labelled per grid position |
| Erection | Telehandler and mobile access platform, no tower crane |
| Lateral Stability | X-braced end walls and party walls |
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