Pre-Engineered Metal Structures for Building Your Manufacturing and Processing Plants
Posted on: 15 October 2020
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Are you planning to build a new manufacturing plant or scale up the existing one? The prospects of doing all this are undoubtedly exciting, but it is also worth noting that such projects can be frustrating. Several challenges lay ahead as you wrap your head around incorporating offices, machinery plants, storage facilities and waste management facilities into one layout. More importantly, the mere magnitude of such a project needs significant attention to cost elements. There is a need to manage costs from the onset by choosing the project's right materials and construction process. Here is why pre-engineered metal structures are ideal for your construction undertaking.
Sustainable Construction
You are setting up a facility that will cover thousands of square feet. Therefore, it makes sense to shift the paradigm and focus on using sustainable construction materials. Failure to do means that your project will leave a significant negative environment on the environment. Fortunately, pre-engineered metal structures are the perfect opportunity to use recycled steel, minimising your project's impact on the environment. You can limit the use of non-recycled steel to areas that need steel panels with physical properties not obtained from the recycled metal.
Energy Efficiency
The size of an industrial facility will result in high energy consumption. Picture having facilities over thousands of square feet and having to install HVAC systems inside them. The energy used up is insane. It helps to bring in materials that can help you reduce energy consumption. Go for metal and roof systems made from steel with an excellent thermal efficiency rating (such as R-40). Such a material excels at maintaining the desired temperature conditions and minimising the need for secondary air conditioning systems.
Flexible Construction
An industrial structure should give you the option to expand rapidly when the need arises. You should be able to scale up your storage facility when the production team ramps their daily output to meet customer demands. Doing this with ease requires you to have materials that can support flexible expansion. Steel allows you cut, mould and weld on additional structures. On the other hand, concrete or stone needs a little more work to demolish, build and allow it to cure.
Low Maintenance Needs
Pre-engineered structures are ideal for industrial construction because of the ability to withstand harmful elements. A galvanic protective coating and thorough fabrication treatment enable the steel to stand up to corrosion, pest infestation and inclement weather.
To learn more, contact an industrial construction contractor in your area.