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Category 05

Prefabricated Smart Buildings

Steel-structure prefabricated buildings for funeral business, production, living and office use — designed with dense pipework and equipment interfaces built in, so the shell and the systems inside it are delivered on the same programme.

The task this category answers

You need the building itself to be faster to erect and ready for the equipment inside it.

Funeral buildings have generous spans, complex pipework and tight ties to the equipment they will hold — and they are usually needed quickly. Cast-in-place concrete struggles with all three at once. A steel prefabricated shell is designed for it.

Scope

What this category covers

  • Steel-structure prefabricated buildings for business, production, living and office functions
  • Pipework, ductwork and equipment interfaces planned into the structure, not cut into it later
  • Synchronised construction with equipment installation, so the programme overlaps instead of queuing
  • Finishes, decoration and climate systems coordinated with the equipment zones

Risk removed

What it takes off your desk

Long, weather-dependent construction programmes
Pipe and duct routes that fight the structure once the equipment arrives
Equipment installation that can only begin after the building is finished
Buildings that cannot accommodate later expansion of the plant

Compliance

Standards applied in this category

Named so that a procurement file can be checked against them. Individual solution pages list the equipment-level standards as well.

StandardSubject
GB 50016-2019Fire protection design for buildings
GB 50981-2014Seismic design of building mechanical and electrical systems
GB 50303-2015Acceptance of electrical installation
GB 50243-2016Acceptance of ventilation and air-conditioning works