Steel building cost: what affects the price

Every project is unique, so the structure is adapted to the building's dimensions, location and intended use and to the client's requirements. Structural calculations and design follow the current Eurocodes and take into account the loads and other conditions that affect the safety, stability and durability of the building.

Two buildings of the same size can therefore have very different prices: one is an unheated warehouse clad in trapezoidal sheeting, the other a production space with insulated panels, a mezzanine and a crane runway. Instead of a standard building with standard limitations, you get a solution designed around your needs.

The final steel building cost depends on the complexity of the project, the dimensions, the location, the structural requirements and the equipment you choose. The biggest factors are:

• dimensions: the width, length and height of the building and the clear span without intermediate columns;
• location: the snow and wind loads that the structural calculation takes into account;
• structural requirements: a mezzanine, an office section, a crane runway, a parapet;
• building envelope: trapezoidal sheeting or insulated sandwich panels for the roof and walls, and the flashings;
• openings: the number and size of doors and windows.

On every building, the steel structure is hot-dip galvanised and made in execution class EXC 2 to SIST EN 1090-1 and 1090-2.

Besides designing and building the structure, we also supply the right equipment and the additional solutions that make the building fully functional. We take care of the building permit: if one is needed, we prepare the design documentation and manage the procedure through to the occupancy permit; if not, we put the building up without one. Find out more on the design and engineering page.

Your quote sets out exactly what it includes, item by item.

For a first calculation, we need:

• what the building is for (storage, production, servicing),
• the width, length and height you need,
• the location of the building,
• any special requirements: offices, a mezzanine, a crane runway, the number of doors and windows.

Enter the details in the inquiry form. For examples of buildings we have completed, see the prefabricated steel buildings page.

If you will not heat the space and nobody will work in it permanently, a warehouse tent may be the better fit. A standard warehouse tent costs from about €110 per m², is bolted together and can be fully dismantled and moved. For a comparison of the two solutions, read our article warehouse tent or steel building.