Steel Frame Warehouse Supermarket

The steel frame warehouse supermarket building is a construction form specially designed by our Chinese steel structure factory for warehouse-style supermarkets. It combines the engineering characteristics of "steel frame structure" and the functional requirements of "warehouse-style supermarkets". Our steel frame construction technology has provided solutions for many clients in various countries and regions. We are a steel structure supplier and manufacturer with over 20 years of experience.

Core structure

Steel frame

● Main materials: The main load-bearing components such as columns, beams, and roof trusses all use hot-rolled H-shaped steel, square steel pipes, etc.

● Connection method: Components are assembled on-site through high-strength bolts, welding, etc.

● Enclosure structure: The exterior walls and roofs usually use sandwich panels or profiled steel sheets instead of traditional brick walls or concrete walls.

Core function

Warehouse-style Supermarket

● High clear height: The first floor of a steel structure warehouse-style supermarket usually has a height of 8-12 meters or even higher. Using high-level shelves for vertical storage, maximizing inventory capacity. Forklifts can freely move between the shelves to perform replenishment operations. It provides customers with an open and non-stressful shopping experience.

● Integrated circulation: The interior of the building is usually divided into the front area and the back area, with no hard partitions between them. The high shelves themselves are both display and storage units. Customers can observe the replenishment process, enhancing the sense of "large quantity, good price" of the warehouse.

● Complementary functions: Special loading platforms and a large outdoor parking lot need to be designed.

Structural system

The Steel frame warehouse supermarkets mainly adopt the following two structural systems, or a combination of the two:

Product case

Metro (METRO) - The pioneer of German Steel frame warehouse supermarkets

● Structural system: Portal frame light steel structure, with a span typically ranging from 24 to 30 meters, and column spacing of 6 to 12 meters.

● Internal space: Net height of 8 to 10 meters, high-level shelves directly reach up to around 7 meters, and forklifts can operate freely among the shelves.

● Appearance identification: The exterior facade is mostly composed of blue and white color metal sandwich panels, with a prominent "METRO" logo on the sloping wall, and a loading platform (the same height as the truck bed) is provided.

● Floor: Heavy-duty concrete floor, with a thickness of approximately 250mm, and the surface is hardened, capable of directly bearing forklifts and fully loaded pallets.

The complete manufacturing process of the product

The manufacturing process of a completed Steel frame warehouse supermarket generally includes the following steps:

1. Design deepening

2. Cutting and processing

3. Laser printing of component numbers

4. Quality Inspection

5. Packaging and Shipping

Key Node Design Suggestions

Steel columns are the main load-bearing components of Steel frame warehouse supermarkets. The design suggestions for steel columns include the following aspects:

● Section form: Usually, welded or hot-rolled H-shaped steel (wide flange series) is used. Sometimes, box-shaped columns or round tube columns are used in heavy-load areas.

● Column spacing: The longitudinal (along the length direction of the supermarket) column spacing is usually 6 to 12 meters, which is coordinated with the shelf module and the width of the forklift passage.

● Column base: Mostly rigid connection column bases (embedded or exposed anchor bolt connections), which transfer bending moments and axial forces; they need to resist wind loads and horizontal forces from cranes (if any).

● Special treatment: Below 1.5 to 2.0 meters from the column bottom, concrete is often externally applied or anti-collision guard angles are set up to prevent damage from forklift impacts.