Pre Engineered Building vs Structural Steel Building
The construction industry offers two primary building methods: pre-engineered steel building and conventional (or traditional) construction with structured steel. Knowing the distinctions between pre-engineered steel structures and structural steel will be helpful when starting our development project. At HIPCO SUPERBUILD, we provide a range of pre-engineered building choices so our customers can have the exact PEB structure they want.
Definition and Application
Pre-Engineered Buildings (PEBs) are made of pre-fabricated building components that are put together on the construction site. PEBs are an alternative to conventional structural steel buildings. Bolted connections help to form this structure. The major components of PEB are Main Framing or Vertical Columns, End Wall Framing, Purlins, Girts, & Eave Struts, Crane System, Sheeting and Insulation, Mezzanine System, and Paints and Finishes. PEBs are mostly employed in the construction of metal roofs, wall panels, and structural steel frame systems.
Conventional steel buildings, aka steel buildings, are traditional metal constructions made of rolled steel sections. These are made on-site utilizing welding and cutting after being custom designed. Structural steel buildings are Portal frame structures, Steel Building Frame Structures, Steel Truss Structure, and Steel Grid Structure.
Pre Engineered Building vs Structural Steel Building
Here, we have come up with the difference between Pre-Engineered Building vs Structural Steel Building. Let’s learn about them in detail.
Quality and seismic resistance
PEB is fully finished products that arrive at the job site ready to erect with simply bolting. However, traditional steel buildings require all fabrication work to be done on-site, which results in significant material waste and quality loss.
Coming to Seismic resistance, a low-weight flexible frame of PEB offers higher resistance to seismic force, while the heavy structure and high weighted conventional steel structure don’t work well against semic force.
Time Saving and delivery
PEB is a factory-made/shop-fabricated solution that saves time and provides excellent quality. Site fabrication is required for conventional steel structures, which takes more time and needs additional infrastructural facilities, resulting in project delays. To deliver PEB it takes 6 to 8 weeks. Talking about conventional, It takes an average of 5 to 6 months for delivery.
Process of erection and Architecture
The PEB structure gets erected easily, fast, and takes a step-by-step rule, while for conventional steel structures, it is slow. The architecture of PEB is standard, while for conventional one, a special design is needed, so much research is to be done.
Weight and Source
PEB is almost 10-15% lighter compared to conventional construction due to its efficient design and integral framing system. The conventional structure uses a high standard hot rolled section resulting in a heavy steel structure and comparatively over-designed structure.
You can have an entire product range of roofing, structure, mezzanine, staircases, beams, doors, windows, ventilation, and insulations.
For a conventional structure to procure, 10-15 sources are needed and need lots of effort for coordination.
Performance and cost-effectiveness
A PEB structure has components specified and designed specially to act together as a system for maximum efficiency and performance. That conventional steel components are custom-designed, and thus, an error can occur when assembled for design and details. Since erection time is less, fewer labors and height structures are available with PEB, it requires less cost, but the conventional structure is heavy and requires more labor and erection time, implying greater investment.
Status of PEB in Nepal
Pre-engineered buildings in Nepal have become bigger and better. Dependency on a conventional building has been lowering as pre-engineered buildings offer great value on quality, building erection, architecture, weight and source, performance and cost-effectiveness.
In addition, PEBs are now taking over the conventional method of building in Nepal due to increased awareness of green buildings. All in all, we can say that because of their outstanding qualities and approach to environment-friendliness, PEBs are in high demand in Nepal and thus, the number of PEB manufacturers in Nepal is also going north.
Why choose HIPCO Superbuild?
HIPCO SUPERBUILD is a top PEB manufacturer in Nepal that provides PEB solutions for the numerous applications of prefabricated buildings. As the industry pioneer in Nepal for pre-engineered buildings, we provide building solutions that are virtually maintenance-free and sturdy enough to have a prolonged service life. We produce buildings for homes, poultry farms, warehouses, industrial sheds, pre-engineered steel buildings, and service centers. Regardless of your building projects, just team up with us to build a quick and reliable PEB structure in Nepal.
