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Commercial Fabrication

STAAD-Pro engineered PEB warehouses, showrooms, cold-storage buildings and mezzanine floors — column-free spans to 90 m, fast fabrication, turnkey erection anywhere in India.

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Pre-Engineered Buildings · Column-Free Spans to 90 m

Engineered Steel Buildings for Warehouses, Retail & Cold Storage

  • STAAD.Pro Limit State Design analysis
  • Column-free clear spans up to 90 m
  • Wind & seismic design included
  • Eave heights up to 14 m
  • PIR sandwich panels for cold-storage (80–200 mm)
  • Mezzanine floors for 3–10 kN/m² live loads
  • Shop output up to 80 T/week
  • High-strength bolted connections, match-drilled
  • Turnkey: frame + cladding + doors + mezzanine
  • 3–5 days erection per 1,000 m² of floor area

Prayag Fab Solutions designs and builds Pre-Engineered Buildings (PEBs) and conventional steel-framed commercial structures for logistics, retail, cold-storage, light manufacturing, and mixed-use occupancies. All structural frames are analysed in STAAD.Pro using Limit State Design methodology, ensuring that every column, rafter, and bracing member carries load safely while minimising steel tonnage — and therefore project cost.

Building Types We Deliver

  • Logistics & distribution warehouses — clear-span portal frames from 15 m to 90 m wide, eave heights to 14 m, with dock-leveller pits, overhead-door openings, and fire-compartment walls designed into the structural scheme from day one.
  • Showrooms & retail units — architecturally expressed steel frames with glazed curtain-wall interfaces, cantilevered canopies, and integrated mezzanines for display and back-office use.
  • Cold-storage & controlled-atmosphere stores — insulated PEB envelopes with 80–200 mm PIR sandwich panels, vapour barriers, and structural detailing that accommodates differential thermal movement at every joint.
  • Multi-story mezzanine floors — steel-framed intermediate floors in existing buildings, designed for live loads from 3 kN/m² (office) to 10 kN/m² (pallet-racking storage), with metal-deck composite slabs or steel chequer plate to suit the application.
  • Insulated wall & roof systems — trapezoidal single-skin, standing-seam, or composite sandwich panels supplied and installed as part of the complete building package.

Engineering & Design

Every building starts with a structural analysis model in STAAD.Pro that accounts for dead load, imposed load, wind (regional wind speed up to Vb 50 m/s), seismic, and snow load where applicable. Foundation load schedules and column base-plate reaction drawings are issued to the civil contractor, eliminating the coordination gaps that cause programme delays.

Fabrication & Speed

Tapered portal-frame rafters and columns are fabricated from flame-cut plates on our automated welding lines, achieving a shop output of up to 80 tonnes per week. Primary connections use high-strength M20/M24 bolts with match-drilled end-plates — reducing site-erection time to typically 3–5 days per 1,000 m² of floor area. Secondary purlins and girts are cold-formed Z- or C-sections, pre-cut to length and delivered in erection sequence.

Turnkey Delivery

We offer design-supply-erect contracts covering: structural steel frame, roofing and cladding, gutters and downpipes, ridge ventilators, personnel doors and overhead doors, mezzanine stairs and guard-rails, and anchor-bolt setting-out plan. The client gets a single-point responsibility for the building envelope — no coordination between separate steel and cladding sub-contractors.

Fabrication Capabilities

Commercial Fabrication — What We Deliver

Every capability is supported by in-house equipment, qualified procedures, and documented quality records.

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PEB Warehouses

Tapered portal-frame columns and rafters, eave struts, ridge beams, and crane runway girders are fabricated from high-grade structural plate on our automated sub-merged-arc welding (SAW) lines. Flanges are CNC flame-cut for dimensional accuracy; end-plates are drilled on our radial-arm drill to ±0.5 mm hole-position tolerance so that field bolting goes together first time. Shop primer is applied to precision blast-cleaned surfaces before despatch.

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Showrooms & Retail

Retail and showroom structures demand visual impact as well as structural integrity. We fabricate exposed steel frames in hollow sections (SHS/RHS), round CHS columns, and feature trusses that become part of the architectural language. All welds are ground flush and filled before a high-build polyurethane coating is applied in the client's specified colour. Cantilevered canopies use welded plate brackets engineered to carry the design wind uplift.

03

Cold-Storage PEBs

Cold-storage buildings require structurally continuous insulated envelopes with no thermal bridges. We supply and install 80–200 mm PIR-core sandwich wall and roof panels with interlocking joints, factory-applied colour-steel facings, and site-sealed perimeter flashings. Vapour-barrier continuity at panel junctions is detailed in our construction drawings so that the refrigeration plant can achieve specified chamber temperatures without condensation or frost risk.

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Mezzanine Floors

Intermediate mezzanine floors are fabricated as bolted steel frameworks of UC columns, UB primary beams, and secondary joists at 1.2–1.5 m centres. Composite metal deck (0.9 mm galvanised steel + light concrete screed) or heavy-duty open-bar grating is installed to suit the occupancy. We design for pallet-racking point loads, forklift wheel loads, and vibration serviceability (natural frequency > 8 Hz for office areas).

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Insulated Wall Panels

For controlled environments, we supply factory-made insulated wall panels (single-skin with insulation and liner, or composite sandwich) with a full range of factory-formed corner pieces, window surrounds, and door head-flashings. Panel-to-structure attachments are designed to transfer wind load without compromising the insulation layer, and all penetrations — for MEP services — are supplied with purpose-made insulated sleeve flanges.

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Turnkey Site Erection

Our erection team handles complete building erection from foundation anchor-bolt survey through to ridge-cap installation. We mobilise with mobile cranes (12–50 T), cherry pickers, and modular scaffold as required. Daily progress photos and toolbox-talk records are maintained. A practical-completion handover pack with photographic as-built evidence, coating inspection report, and bolt-tension records is issued on handover.

How We Deliver

A Four-Stage Engineering Discipline

01

Site Survey & Brief

Our estimator visits site to verify soil conditions (for foundation loading), check access and craneage constraints, confirm building orientation for prevailing wind, and agree floor-level datum. A Building Information Brief — occupancy, design live load, eave height, clear span, door positions, future expansion provision — is signed off by the client before engineering commences.

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Engineering & Design

STAAD.Pro model is built for wind, seismic, and gravity load combinations. Member sizes are optimised to minimise tonnage. Foundation load schedule, column base-plate drawings, anchor-bolt setting-out plan, and 3-D rendering are issued to the client for review and sign-off. Any structural changes required by the client are incorporated before fabrication drawings are released.

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Shop Fabrication

Primary steel is CNC-cut, drilled, assembled, and welded on our SAW lines. Secondary purlins and girts are roll-formed to length. Roofing and cladding panels are procured from approved panel manufacturers. All material is dispatched in erection sequence with piece-marks matching the erection drawing — nothing arrives on site before it is needed.

04

Site Erection

Our erection crew sets out anchor bolts from the structural engineer's setting-out plan (± 3 mm column grid), erects columns, rafters, and bracing, and then installs purlins, girts, and cladding from ridge down. Roof and wall panels are sealed with compatible silicone sealant at all side-laps and end-laps. On completion, a walk-through snagging inspection is conducted with the client and all items are closed before the final handover is signed.

In The Field

Recent Commercial Fabrication Projects

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They engineered our cold-storage PEB from concept to commissioning. The design-build discipline was refreshing.
AK
Anita Kapoor
COO, Northcold Logistics
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