The building around the process — engineered for the people who work in it, not only the machines.
Industrial architecture is usually treated as whatever is left over once the process layout is fixed. That is how you end up with a plant that runs adequately and is unpleasant to work in — no daylight where people spend ten hours, an admin block positioned so visitors walk through a material route, an entrance that says nothing about the company to the OEM customer auditing it.
The building envelope is also where a large amount of operating cost is decided: orientation, roof and wall build-up, ventilation strategy and glazing determine what you spend on cooling and lighting for the next twenty years.
Orientation and roof design are settled against the actual process heat load, not a default. Where the process is hot — furnaces, ovens, hot forming — ventilation and stack effect are designed into the section rather than solved afterwards with fans. Where it is precision work, the priority inverts: stable temperature, controlled daylight and no glare across a machine console.
North light, roof monitors and translucent sheeting reduce the lighting load through the working day. On a large-span shed that is a material saving, and it is free if it is decided before the structure is.
Offices, canteen, changing rooms, first aid and toilets are positioned so that people reach them without crossing a material route or a hazardous zone. On the Solapur campus each building was split north-south, with maintenance, stores and offices on one strip and entrance, conference and canteen on the other, so operational and visitor traffic never overlap.
This matters commercially as well as practically. If your customers audit your plant — and in automotive, pharma and food they will — the route they walk is part of what they are assessing.
An industrial building does not need to be decorative, but it does need to look like a company worth placing a long-term order with. Facade treatment, entrance design, boundary and landscape are handled as part of the architecture rather than added at the end when the budget is gone.
Setbacks, ground coverage, FSI, fire tender access, green belt provision and parking are checked against the applicable development control rules from the first sketch. We prepare the drawings and documentation your approval applications require; the liaison and filing stay with you or your appointed consultant.
A PEB vendor supplies and erects a structural shed. They do not plan how people move through it, where the amenities go, how it is ventilated, or whether the layout satisfies your development control rules — and they have no commercial reason to. On anything beyond a plain storage shed, the two are complementary rather than alternatives: we design the facility, they supply the frame, and we proof-check what they propose.
Often, yes. Daylight, ventilation, amenity provision and circulation can frequently be improved substantially within an existing envelope, and those are the changes people working there actually notice. It starts with a survey of the as-built condition, because on older plants the drawings and the building have usually diverged.
It is the first question every client asks, and an honest answer needs two things from you: the process the building has to house, and the plot. A general-purpose shed and a heavy manufacturing bay of the same floor area differ by a wide margin, because the heavy bay needs crane-rated structure, process zoning and power infrastructure the shed does not. Consultancy fees are normally a percentage of construction cost, scaled to the scope you actually need — design only, design plus coordination, or full project management. Send us the plot details and what you intend to manufacture and you will get a specific fee proposal rather than a range.
Design and drawing production for a mid-sized industrial facility typically runs three to six months to GFC stage, depending on how settled the process layout is when we start. Construction then depends on scale — the two completed projects on this site ran 22 months and 18 months from start to commissioning, at roughly 4,00,000 and 2,50,000 sq ft respectively. The single largest cause of delay is not drawing production; it is process changes arriving after the structure is fixed. Time spent on planning at the beginning is what protects the schedule later.
Tell us the plot and what you intend to manufacture. Industrial projects from ₹5 Crore upward.
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