This roadmap is a scope sequence for buyers who have not closed geometry, loads, or document requests. NorthAxis Sourcing uses it to keep an alternative steel system from being accepted on a brand name alone. It is not an environmental pledge and not a plant audit.
Send Project RequirementsSwitch the tab. Each table is a request list, not a completed design and not a price.
| Building footprint | Length and width in ft or m, supplied by the buyer. |
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| Eave height and clear span | State both. A 60 ft clear span with an 18 ft eave is an illustration of units, not a recommended building. |
| Bay spacing | Name the bay if a standard module is acceptable, or mark the span as custom. |
| Openings | Door and window sizes change girt layout. List them with the frame. |
| Design wind speed | mph, from the project jurisdiction. Wind exposure category is a separate row. |
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| Ground snow load | psf. Do not reuse another county’s figure. |
| Seismic design category | A category letter when the project criteria assign one. |
| Floor and collateral | Design live load and design dead load, plus ceiling or sprinkler collateral if known. |
| Frame specification | Ask for the steel grade and coating on the quoted members, rigid frame or cold-formed steel named explicitly. |
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| Weld and quality | AWS D1.1 and any ISO 9001 record must name the plant and the system, or they stay unverified. |
| Accreditation | IAS AC472, if relevant, is requested for the metal-building manufacturer in the quote, not asserted by this site. |
| Code path | IBC or IRC applicability is for the authority having jurisdiction. Calculations should cite ASCE 7 and AISC 360 when those are the project criteria. |
These are not downloadable certificates. Copy the group into the requirement form. Nothing here is a file this desk hosts as a controlled document.
Illustrative scope exercise, not a customer award or actual quotation: compare a panelized enclosure on a rigid frame with a volumetric room for a site office beside the warehouse. If the frame proposal excludes the office, keep two package columns so the office foundation and transport envelope remain visible. No completed project or measured price outcome is claimed.
Label them as estimates and give the unit. Ask suppliers to state the assumption they priced. An estimate is not permission to treat two different spans as equal.
When door width, crane aisle, or a required clear span will not fit the published bay. Custom engineering then needs its own calculation set. The roadmap records the choice. It does not rank the fees.
The substitute system’s geometry, loads, enclosure, exclusions, and the documents that name that system. A similar photo is not verification. Compatibility with a referenced brand is not claimed.
Optional. Currency plus per-unit or whole-order basis. High-end, mid-range, budget, or undecided is a buyer preference about finish and service level. It is not a rating NorthAxis Sourcing has audited.
Three limits stay on this roadmap: missing jurisdiction blocks any code sentence; missing crane data blocks a crane-building comparison; missing scope labels block a total-price comparison. Continue at Building Options or Contact.
Send the open rows. The desk will ask factories to answer the written scope and to show which lines they will not price.
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Eligibility applies to qualified business buyers and is confirmed after we review your product, quantity, destination, and sourcing requirements.