Guides for Prefab and Steel Building Buyers
Freight, lead times, load data and camp planning — written from projects we have actually delivered, not from a marketing brief.
Everything We Have Written Down
Detachable vs Expandable Container House
Both ship flat and both open out on site, but they answer different problems. This is how to tell which one your project actually needs.…
6 min readHow Prefab Buildings Ship Overseas
Ocean freight decides more of the delivered price than most buyers expect. Understanding the three shipping formats is the cheapest engineer…
7 min read
Prefab Lead Times Explained
Fabrication is the part of the programme buyers ask about, and rarely the part that decides the handover date. Here is where the time actual…
5 min read
Wind and Seismic Loads for Prefab Buildings
Structures are engineered to AS/NZS, EN (CE) and your specified loads — which means the loads have to be specified. This is what we need and…
6 min read
Planning a Worker Camp
Camps fail on the things nobody costed: drainage, water storage, the pad and the sequence containers arrive in. Here is the checklist we wor…
8 min readClear-Span Steel Building Basics
The span decides what the building can do for the next thirty years. Everything else — cladding, doors, colour — can be changed later. The c…
6 min readAbout These Guides
What do these guides cover?
Freight formats, lead times, load data, camp planning and how clear-span steel buildings are specified — the decisions that actually change a project's cost.
Are the guides specific to your products?
They are written from our own projects, so the examples are real camps and buildings we have delivered, and every guide links to the products it describes.
Can you answer a question that is not covered?
Yes. Message us on WhatsApp with the question and an engineer will answer it directly.
How often is the knowledge centre updated?
Guides are added as projects raise questions worth writing down.
Question Not Answered Here
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