Tweet What are Building Regulations? According to DirectGov: “The Building Regulations set standards for the design and construction of buildings, primarily to ensure the safety and health for people in or around those buildings, but also for energy conservation and access to and about buildings.” Some buildings are exempt from Building Regulations, these include: Buildings [...]
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Tweet The size and shape of your building are determined by several factors. Foremost are the needs of your business. It may be that the height and width of the doorways are critical, it may be that there are minimum dimensions required by legislation (e.g. for MOT bays). In many cases the shape and size [...]
Tweet Provision of rooflights is determined and constrained by frame arrangement purlin spacing, solar gain and daylight factor, and normally equates to approximately 10% of floor area. Rooflights can be single skin in the case of an un-insulated building or multi-layered to restrict heat loss where the building is to be insulated. All rooflights these [...]
Tweet Personnel doors are usually designed to be outward-opening and are usually made from steel for maximum durability and security. They are usually supplied primer-painted for customers to finish to their own requirements. Fire exit doors are of similar design and finish and are fitted with an internal panic latch or push pad but no [...]
Tweet Roller shutter doors are the most popular and economic choice for goods doors. These will normally have galvanised laths and be hand operated by means of a chain. Options include electrical operation, coloured laths, Windlock guides and insulated laths, all of which incur additional cost. In general 0.6m (2ft) should be allowed above the [...]
Tweet Where a steel-framed building is to be situated close to the boundary with another property, i.e. land that belongs to somebody else, then a ”boundary condition” may apply. If a wall of the building is between 1m and 5m from the boundary, then Building Control may ask for 1-hour firewall protection to that wall. [...]
Tweet You may often find reference to bays and bay size in relation to steel framed buildings. This refers to the distance between the stanchions (or columns). So a building 30m long might be divided up into five 6m wide bays with six rows of stanchions including two end gables. Each bay will span the width of [...]
Tweet STANCHIONS are the steel columns that form the upright posts in a portal framed steel building. They can be formed from heavyweight hot rolled steel “I” beam sections or from lightweight cold rolled galvanised steel “C” sections bolted back to back to form a strong composite “I” beam. The main stanchions should never be [...]
Tweet Baseplates are used to hold a portal framed steel building down to the foundation pads or base slab. They should be fabricated form steel plate comprising a thick bottom plate which is bolted to the concrete, with a welded upright to which is bolted the steel stanchion. The baseplate will normally resemble an upside down “T”.
