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Benchmark Case | 50,000+ m² Logistics Warehouse Campus in Guatemalas

When a client hands you an irregular plot, a site with multiple floor elevations, and a seismic code to satisfy, the easy answer is to build something standard. This project wasn’t that.

Project at a Glance

Item Detail
Location Guatemala
Building area 50,000+ m² total
Scope Multi-building steel warehouse campus, large single spans, multi-level loading platforms
Building features Loading doors, lifting doors, skylight strips, ridge ventilation, prefabricated concrete exterior walls
Deliverables Structural design, foundation and anchor bolt drawings, fabrication, container sea freight

The Challenge

The site is not a clean rectangle. Every square meter of buildable area mattered, so the independent footings had to sit as close to the property line as possible — without stepping one centimeter onto the neighbor’s land.

It didn’t stop there. The campus is built on multiple interior floor levels, so the dock platforms, eave heights and ridge lines all step to match the ground. Doors, window openings, column grids, floor elevations and the boundary constraint pull against each other: change one drawing, and you re-check the columns, foundations, cladding and door openings all over again.

And Guatemala is seismically active. The structure had to meet local seismic requirements — while the client also wanted the leanest steel design we could responsibly deliver. Those two goals usually push in opposite directions.

What We Did

Foundations that respect the line, not fight it.

Our structural engineers iterated on the column grid and footing layout until the independent foundations sat as close to the boundary as the red line allows, maximizing usable warehouse area without encroaching on adjacent land.

Multi-level elevations, handled building by building.

We verified eave and ridge heights for each building against its floor level, and resolved the steel elevation changes where platforms step — so doors, cladding and rooflines stay coordinated across the whole campus.

One drawing set, always in sync.

Because the boundary, elevations, column grid and openings all interact, every revision went through a coordinated check of foundations, main steel, cladding and door positions before anything was released.

Seismic design without the extra tonnage.

Wind and seismic cases were analyzed per local practice, and member sections were tuned so the structure meets seismic requirements with controlled steel weight — no overdesign, no guesswork.

Working Together, the Way It Should Be

Technical collaboration that starts with listening.

We don’t drop a standard design on a client and call it a day. Our engineers work with the client’s team and respect local engineering practice — and where the code and the client’s practical needs have to be balanced, we find the middle ground with the numbers to back it up.

One team, end to end.

Sales, commercial, our chief structural engineer, production, logistics and documentation all work the same project. When the client came back with dozens of markups across multiple drawing revisions, every single item got a written reply — in order, no gaps. We also match the client’s working hours, so technical questions get answered when they need them answered.

We visited the site.

Our senior management flew to the client’s country, walked the actual plot, and sat down with the client’s engineering team face to face. That turned a drawing-based relationship into a project partnership — and it’s a big part of why everything that came after went as smoothly as it did.

Milestones the client can see.

The project was broken into clear stages: foundation drawing interim review → main steel frame drawings → anchor bolt production after full drawing approval → main steel fabrication → container sea freight. Every stage had a communicated delivery date, so the client always knew where things stood — and could plan container logistics ahead of time.

Support That Doesn’t End at the Port

Complete Documentation — fabrication drawings, foundation drawings, anchor bolt layouts and construction instructions.

Remote Engineering Support — when questions came up on site, from container unloading to member installation, our engineers responded promptly.

Designed for the Region — with Guatemala’s earthquake exposure in mind, wind and seismic load cases were part of the structural check from day one.

The Result: a fully coordinated steel warehouse campus that makes the most of a difficult site, meets the seismic requirements, and keeps steel weight where it should be. If you’re planning a warehouse or industrial project on a site that isn’t simple, we’d like to talk.

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