Design & Planning
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Clear Span Sheds: How Wide Can You Go?
How wide can a clear span shed go? It depends on your site wind speed. Why there is no standard size table, and what changes the engineering.
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Livestock Shed Design: Shelters for Cattle, Sheep, and Horses
Livestock shelter isn’t just good animal welfare, it’s good economics. Heat stress alone costs the Australian cattle industry an estimated $500 million per year in reduced weight gain,…
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Custom Shed Design: How to Brief Your Shed Builder for the Perfect Result
Every shed is custom to some degree, but getting the design right upfront saves thousands in changes, compromises, and regrets. Here’s how to brief your shed builder so…
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Farm Machinery Storage: The Shedz Guide to Sizing and Designing Your Machinery Shed
Shedz supplies steel machinery shed kits Australia-wide, each engineered for the wind speed at your site. A $500,000 header sitting in the weather loses value faster than one…
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Dairy Shed Design: Planning Your Milking Facility from the Ground Up
A dairy shed is the most complex and specialised agricultural building you’ll ever design. It’s not just a roof over cows, it’s a production facility where layout, flow,…
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Workshop Sheds: How to Design the Perfect Steel Workshop
Design guide for steel workshop sheds, layout, power, lighting, ventilation, insulation, roller doors, and features that make a workshop actually work.
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Steel Portal Frame Buildings: Why Engineering Matters for Your Shed
How steel portal frames work, why engineering matters, and what makes a properly engineered shed different from a cheap one. The technical backbone of every quality steel building.
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Open Front Sheds: Design Guide for Machinery, Hay & Equipment Shelters
How to design the right open front shed for your property, sizing, orientation, engineering, costs, and common configurations for Australian farms and commercial sites.
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How to Insulate a Steel Shed: Stop Condensation & Stay Comfortable
Why Insulate Your Steel Shed? Steel is an excellent building material, strong, durable, termite-proof, and fire-resistant. But it conducts heat and cold efficiently, which means an uninsulated steel…
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Shed Foundations: Concrete Slabs, Piers & Getting It Right
Why Your Shed Foundation Matters Your foundation is the most critical part of any shed build. Get it wrong and you’ll deal with cracking, shifting, water pooling, and…
