Prefabricated steel buildings follow a standard  procedure for their construction. The design procedure as known in the parlance of architecture and design, is composed of two parts – functional design and structural framework design.

While the functional design ensures the adequate working areas, proper ventilation, material for handling equipments, adequate lighting and aesthetics; the structural framework design outlines the selection and arrangements of structural elements.

Broadly, the design procedure may be outlined as follows:

• Planning – is the foremost step that is a pre-requisite of any procedure. It is significant to set a criteria against which the resulting design is an optimum.
• Structural Configuration -  Next comes the preliminary structural configuration of the elements as per the design.
• Loads -  Establishments for loads that will be carried.
• Member Selection – This involves the selection of the member sizes to satisfy an objective criterion such as least weight or cost.
• Analysis – This basically encompasses the structural analysis of the design and the framework.
• Evaluation -  The penultimate step weighs and evaluates the result as per the predetermined criteria.
• Redesign - Based on the evaluation, this may involve repetition of any of the prior steps.

The objective of the design procedure is to meet the criteria set during the planning. Integral to the architectural planning of steel structures, the design procedure is inevitably significant to the proper construction of all types of steel buildings.

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