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A compressor house
A portal-frame building with an overhead crane for maintenance. Span, height and crane capacity follow your design.
Scroll to see how it is built · drag to turn it round
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Steel buildings that house compressors: portal frames with crane runway girders, purlins, girts, bracing and cladding, from the same PEB lines that build our industrial sheds.
Scroll: the camera moves to each part in turn and ends on the exploded view. Drag to turn it round yourself.
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A portal-frame building with an overhead crane for maintenance. Span, height and crane capacity follow your design.
Scroll to see how it is built · drag to turn it round
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Built-up columns and tapered rafters: plates matched on the beam line and welded by our Cloos robot, which takes the weld lines straight from the 3D model.
Used here for: Portal frames
Used here for: Portal frames
Tapered rafters and other non-uniform built-up sections, welded faster and with deeper penetration.
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Runway girders and rails on column brackets, straightened and checked to crane tolerances.
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Cold-formed sections roll-formed and punched in house.
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Rod and angle bracing in the end bays.
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Roof and wall sheeting; shown on one side so the frame stays visible.
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The crane and the compressor are supplied by others. The building is sized round them.
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Frames, girders, purlins, bracing and cladding: every member numbered, match-marked and packed in erection sequence.
We fabricate to your drawings and prove the fit in our own bay before anything ships. Open any line for the detail.
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We fabricate to your design, from plate to a packed container. An engineer will tell you honestly how we would build it.