PRE-ENGINEERED

BUILDINGS

JENNA MARY B. VARGAS

MAREEN JEAN TOLENTINO
(REPORTERS)

AR. CESAR L. AGPOON

(INSTRUCTOR)
BACKGROUND

Pre engineered buildings are factory-built buildings of steel that are

shipped to site and bolted together. What distinguishes them from
other buildings is that the contractor also designs the building - a
practice called design & build.

This style of construction is ideally suited to industrial buildings and

warehouses; it is cheap, very fast to erect, and can also be dismantled
and moved to another site. These structures are sometimes called
'metal boxes' or 'tin sheds' by laymen - they are essentially
rectangular boxes enclosed in a skin of corrugated metal sheeting. 

Pre Engineered Buildings (PEB) are the buildings which are

engineered at a factory and assembled at site. Usually PEBs are steel
structures. Built-up sections are fabricated at the factory to exact size,
transported to site and assembled at site with bolted connections. This
type of Structural Concept is generally used to build the following:

 Warehouses
 Factories
 Workshops
 Offices
 Gas stations
 Vehicle parking sheds
 Showrooms
 Aircraft hangars
 Metro stations
 Schools
 Recreational
 Indoor stadium roofs
 Outdoor stadium canopies
 Bridges
 Railway platform shelters
Components of PEB:

Pre-engineered building are built over three members connected to

each other:
• Primary members (columns, rafters, bracing…)
• Secondary members (Z or C purlins, girts and eave struts)
• Roof and wall sheeting connected to each other
• Other building components

The entire primary members and secondary members are designed

and fully fabricated including cut-to-length, punching, drilling, welding
and preforming in the factory before shipped to the site for erection
CONSTRUCTION PROCESS
While the foundations and floor slab are being constructed, the beams
and columns - the structural system - are being fabricated in the
factory. Once the foundations and floor are done, the columns are
shipped to the site, lifted into place by cranes, and bolted together.

This system consists of factory-fabricated and factory-painted steel

column and beam segments that are simply bolted together at site.
The columns and beams are custom-fabricated I-section members
that have an end plate with holes for bolting at both ends.

These are made by cutting steel plates of the desired thickness, and
welding them together to make I sections. The cutting and welding is
done by industrial robots for speed and accuracy; operators will simply
feed a CAD drawing of the beams into the machines, and they do the
rest.
 Advantages of Pre Engineered Buildings
• Reduced construction time
• Lower cost
• Flexibility of expansion
• Large clear spans
• Quality control
• Low maintenance
• Energy efficient roofing and wall systems
• Architectural versatility
• Single source responsibility
• Warranty on PEB

Disadvantages of PEB:

• Rusting / Corrosion Sensitive

• Insulation Cost

• Appearance