STRUCTURE IN A BOX

Our Steel Structure D.I.Y Kits

The ease of erection of our portal frame steel structures makes it possible for you to purchase your factory in D.I.Y kit form and erect & install it yourself. A variety of commercial operations can take advantage of D.I.Y steel structure kits as the structures can be pre-configured to be appropriate for your special uses.

And what's more, we supply you with a comprehensive assembly manual to assist you in your venture.

Great care must however be taken to ensure that we understand your requirements so that we can supply the right structure and accessories for the purpose intended. Our D.I.Y steel structure kits have been developed to provide you with rapid deliveries at the most competitive pricing possible. This service is available throughout Africa via our Structure In A Box System.

You can of course construct your end walls using steel or brick construction. You can also use conventional insulation methods to insulate the structure for heating and cooling efficiency.

Each D.I.Y kit comes fully protected with red-oxide industrial primer paint. The water-based, environmentally friendly red-oxide primer is designed to protect the steel before it is erected. When properly applied, it holds up against all but the worst abuse (like allowing water to pool for weeks on un-erected parts). As a result, any exposed red steel inside your structure will look good for years, and you can finish it to look even better.

Every D.I.Y kit structure is made at our-state-of-the-art-factory - so you enjoy factory- direct savings. Dealing directly with the factory saves you time and money, and ensures that you get the lowest price available anywhere.

What's in the 'Structure In A Box Kits'?

Our export structures are individually containerised for delivery to any construction site in the world. Each shipping container has all the material needed to assemble the building in the field. A structure can be erected quickly upon delivery provided that a foundation is already in place and the necessary utility services set up onsite (when applicable).

The unique modular structure also allows for rapid development and cost-effective expansion.

The steel erection crew will need to have appropriate tools available to complete the building assembly. If needed, we can even provide the necessary tools in the shipping container.

Our standard structures are supplied with 0.50 Full Hard Galvanised IBR roof sheeting and all fasteners, including Foundation Holding Down Bolts.

And includes all the instructions needed for easy, simple, and fast erection of the structure.

Warning! Please Note that safety requires a commitment from everyone involved. Although erecting a bolt-together pre-engineered steel structures does not require specialized skills like carpentry or masonry and many of our customers do it themselves, construction work is dangerous, and larger structures bring larger hazards.

Everyone at the site should wear appropriate protective clothing, including:
- Hard hats
- Gloves
- Rubber-soled shoes
- Eye-protection

On the up side, your erectors will have an outstanding set of clear common-sense drawings and can call us for support if necessary.

These Kits are suitable for:
- All farming requirements from simple storage to house farm implements, hay, grain, poultry, livestock or other agricultural products to animal feeding and breeding buildings, like poultry housing
- Food processing factories
- Meat packing plants
- Diesel workshops
- Boat lockers
- Essential oils distillation plants
- Various small manufacturing operations
- A precision engineering workshop
- Farm sheds
- Live chicken retail outlets
- Warehousing
- Church halls
- Shops
- Large Carports
- Indoor Swimming Pools
- Conference halls
- Studios
- Fitness Centres
- Retail Showrooms
- Automobile Dealerships
- Garages
- Trade Shops
- Industrial Shops
- Convenience Shops
- Small Aircraft Hangers
- Boat Structures or Storage Sheds

There are a wide variety of additional extras available to compliment structures:
- Alububble Roof Insulation Thermal - under Roof Sheeting
- Chromadek Sheeting or Zincalume Sheeting
- Side Cladding and Gabel End Sheeting
- Ventilation - Ridge Vents or Whirlybirds
- Sliding Doors
- Roller Shutter Doors
- Bullnose
- Opal Polycarbonate Sheeting
- Apart from being able to house overhead cranes the structures can be designed to provide additional steel for any structure utilizing cranes.

About Steel Structure Foundation Footings

Your steel building will need some type of foundation on which to anchor the columns and thereby tie the whole structure together. Some agricultural structures are designed to have dirt or gravel floors and consequently use concrete piers (footings) instead of a full slab; however, a concrete slab is best for most situations.

Whatever foundation you use, we strongly recommend that you employ an experienced local civil engineer to design it. Your erection drawings will include an "anchor-bolt setting plan with reactions," which will give a qualified engineer the necessary data to design a suitable foundation for your structure.

You should note that the engineer will also take a good, hard look at the soil. The soil conditions are of utmost importance and should under no circumstances be ignored.

To give you a slightly better understanding into this aspect, read the paragraph about ground conditions below.

Ground Conditions
If a structure is to be constructed in an area with clay soils one should be aware that clay soils have been found to expand 23cm or more if subjected to long cycles of dying or wetting, thus producing powerful forces that can shear foundations and lift lightweight structures. Some soils with high organic content may, over time, compress under the structure load to a fraction of their original volume, causing the structure to settle. Other soils tend to slide under loads.

Soils that have been modified in some way often perform differently, especially when other soils has been added to or mixed with existing soil, or when the soil has been made wetter or drier than normal, or when cement or chemicals such as lime have been added. Sometimes the soil under a proposed structure varies so greatly over the entire site that a structure simply cannot be constructed safely or economically.

Soil and geological analyses are necessary, therefore, to determine whether a proposed structure can be supported adequately and what would be the most effective and economical method of support.

If there is sound bedrock a short distance below the surface of the construction site, the area over which the structure loads are distributed can be quite small because of the strength of the rock. As progressively weaker rock and soils are encountered, however, the area over which the loads are distributed must be increased.

Do not purchase an Erf/ Property if you have even the slightest suspicion of soil condition problems - it can cost you a small fortune.

Remember, the cheapest stand may not always be the least expensive.