Building Types
60x100 Equipment Storage Building
- Width
- 60 ft
- Length
- 100 ft
- Floor area
- 6,000 sq ft
- Perimeter
- 320 ft
Use
How a 60×100 Equipment Storage Building May Be Used
Equipment shelter
Machinery clearance height and door width are usually the limiting factors, not floor area.
Commodity and forage
Bulk storage depth against the sidewalls affects how the building is loaded and unloaded.
Drive-through access
End-to-end access lets equipment pass through without reversing.
Seasonal working space
Open floor is commonly kept for repairs and staging between seasons.
Example
Example Configuration
Quick dimensions
At a Glance
Width
60 ft across the gable end.
Length
100 ft along the sidewall.
Floor area
6,000 sq ft of clear floor.
Eave height
18 ft at the sidewall on the stored profile.
Configuration
How This Building Is Configured
Configuration summary
| Building type | Equipment Storage Building |
|---|---|
| Footprint | 60 ft × 100 ft |
| Floor area | 6,000 sq ft |
| Eave height | 18 ft |
Planning
Footprint & Space Planning
Footprint
Width and length are chosen together: width is usually fixed by what has to fit side by side, length by how many bays are needed.
Height
Eave height affects door options, storage height and how open the interior feels.
Access
Where vehicles and people enter changes the whole interior layout, so access is settled before anything else.
Doors and openings
Opening width, height and position are specified with the supplier; they affect the frame and the wall bracing.
Site
Slope, drainage, access for delivery and erection, and the foundation are confirmed for the actual property.
Expansion
Extending along the length is usually simpler than changing the width later, which is worth deciding up front.
Access
Doors & Access Considerations
Opening width
Across a 60 ft gable end, the practical opening width is limited by the frame and confirmed with the supplier.
Opening height
A 18 ft eave sets the ceiling on door height before any frame change.
Drive-through
Matching openings at both ends avoid reversing, at the cost of usable wall.
Similar sizes
Other Sizes for a Equipment Storage Building
60′ × 80′
4,800 sq ft
60′ × 120′
7,200 sq ft
50′ × 100′
5,000 sq ft
Related
Related Building Types
Example configuration — for planning purposes only.
FAQ
Common Questions
60 ft × 100 ft is 6,000 square feet of floor area before any interior partitions.
Length is usually adjusted in bay increments, and width is a larger design change. Both are confirmed with the supplier for the final design.
Site preparation, foundation and erection are commonly quoted separately from the building package. Confirm the scope of any quote you receive.
Compare nearby sizes
Related footprints for this building type
Each page works through one footprint for one building type.
Overview
A 60x100 equipment storage building planned as a double-row store with a central aisle serving both sides
This page is ordered around height and clearance, because at 60x100 the 18-foot eave limits a equipment storage building sooner than the plan does.
5 machine positions fit across the 60-foot width with only 0 feet left over, which is a tight fit: the width is fully committed and nothing can be widened later without moving a wall.
What distinguishes 60x100 is depth behaviour: 3 rows along 100 feet after 20 feet of circulation, with 8 feet unaccounted for at the end of the run. The span is the commitment; everything inside it is rearrangeable later, and the 60-foot dimension is not.
An equipment storage building is an enclosed machinery store: it is planned around protecting parked capital at density and still being able to retrieve any one machine. The perimeter is fully enclosed and lockable, because protection from weather and from theft is the reason the building exists. A 60 by 100 footprint is a clearly directional plan: 6,000 sq ft enclosed by 320 ft of wall, at a 1.7:1 length-to-width proportion. Along its 100 ft dimension it takes 4 runs of machine positions at 24 ft, leaving 4 ft over — the 4 ft is where the argument about this size actually happens. Taken purely as arithmetic, 60 by 100 gives 3 machine positions across the 60 ft dimension once 20 ft is reserved for movement, and 4 deep along the 100 ft dimension. Run as a a double-row store with a central aisle serving both sides, 4 ft across is below the 10 ft this use needs to be worth planning, so there is no end bay, so the most-used machine occupies an ordinary position and its comings and goings cross the whole aisle An enclosed store protects capital that is standing still, which is a different job from housing capital that is working.
At 60x100 the operating question is a specific one: is the central aisle wide enough for a machine to turn into a position, or only to drive past it? That is a different question from the one a equipment storage building of another shape has to answer, and it is why this footprint is planned as a double-row store with a central aisle serving both sides rather than as generic covered area.
Areas, perimeter, roof area, ridge height, slab volume and the machine position counts on this page are computed from the stored 60x100 record and this platform's planning module for the equipment storage building category.
Height
Interior height for a 60x100 equipment storage building
Span drives headroom at 60x100: 60 feet of width on a 3:12 pitch puts 25.5 feet over the middle and 18 feet at the walls, so where a tall item stands matters as much as how tall it is. An empty building looks generous and a working one rarely does; plan against the working state.
Height on a 60 ft span is a separate decision from the 100 ft length, and it is the span that sets the frame's behavior. Raising the eave over 6,000 sq ft affects every bay along the 100 ft dimension, so the test is whether double-row store planning genuinely needs the extra clear height or only the floor area.
Ventilation across 6,000 square feet at this height: an enclosed building holding equipment that arrives wet needs air movement to avoid corrosion in storage.
Clear height below purlins, bracing and lighting is lower than the eave height. The usable figure comes from the manufacturer's framing for the selected building.
Usable area
How the 6,000 square feet divides at 60x100
Computed machine position fit for a 60x100 equipment storage building
| Measure | Computed at this footprint |
|---|---|
| Machine positions across the 60-foot width | 5 at a 12-foot module |
| Leftover width | 0 ft (0 sq ft as a full-length strip) |
| Rows along the 100-foot length | 3 at a 24-foot module after 20 ft of circulation |
| Leftover depth | 8 ft (480 sq ft across the width) |
| Total machine positions | 15 |
| Share of floor committed | 72% |
Module footprint used here is 12 by 24 feet, this platform's planning module for a equipment storage building. It is not a code minimum or an engineered clearance.
Example allocation of the 100-foot length — planning model, not survey data
| Zone | Length along the building | Computed area |
|---|---|---|
| Equipment bays | 60 ft | 3,600 sq ft |
| Material and input storage | 25 ft | 1,500 sq ft |
| Working and turning space | 15 ft | 900 sq ft |
Shares applied to the stored 100-foot length; areas computed against the 60-foot width.
Module footprints and allocation shares come from this platform's use typology and are published as example planning models. They are not recommendations and do not describe a majority of projects.
Allocation
Dividing the floor for a double-row store with a central aisle serving both sides
Density is high, because the point of enclosing the floor is to protect as much value per square foot as the aisle allows. The storage pattern this floor drifts toward as the holding grows is a single-aisle machinery store with everything reachable from one run: there is no attachment wall, so attachments occupy floor that a machine could have used and are moved every time one is retrieved. Capital density is the point here: two rows of positions with one shared route protect the most value per square foot of roof. The discipline is keeping the aisle a route rather than an overflow position, because the first machine parked in it costs several others their access.
Treating the last 8 feet as a room is the recurring planning error at 60x100: there is no end bay, so the most-used machine occupies an ordinary position and its comings and goings cross the whole aisle. Doors and their approaches decide more about daily use here than the enclosed area does.
Width is fully committed at 60x100. With 0 feet spare, wall storage and passing room compete with the machine positions directly. The building is fixed for decades while the operation inside it changes every few years, and the plan has to survive that.
Retrieval is the only real workflow, and it has a shape: the machine wanted is rarely the nearest one. Planning which machines occupy the far positions — by season rather than by size — is the cheapest improvement available to a double-row store. Machine dimensions, turning circles and transport heights come from the equipment manufacturer's data for each specific machine. What it holds is self-propelled machines, attachments and implements that represent a large capital holding standing still. That movement pattern, not the 6,000-square-foot total, is what decides whether the leftover 8 feet is useful here.
Openings
Openings for 5 machine positions across
Openings are the pinch point here. With 0 feet of spare width the gable cannot host 5 separate doors, so access is either shared or moved to the 100-foot sidewall. Ground conditions and drainage decide the floor before the frame does.
The 60 ft ends and the 100 ft sides offer very different opening budgets: 60 ft of end wall has room for one wide opening or two modest ones, while 100 ft of side wall can carry several without the openings competing. On this plan the deciding factor is whether double-row store planning or central aisle sizing should be the first thing reached from the door.
Framed-opening sizes, headers and the structure around them are engineered for the specific building. Confirm every opening with the door supplier and the building manufacturer before ordering.
Configurations
Configuring 15 machine positions at 60x100
Nominal bay division computes to 4 bays at about 25 feet, wider than the 12-foot module — so a position can sit inside a bay without a frame line splitting it. The floor treatment is a use decision that outlasts most of the equipment standing on it.
Two-plus rows change the access question entirely. Every rear position at 60x100 needs either its own opening or an aisle, and 0 feet of spare width is what that aisle has to come from. Two operations of the same size can want opposite plans, so the arithmetic below is a starting point rather than a recommendation.
Length is the cheap dimension again, and each added bay yields two positions rather than one. Widening to three rows introduces a blocked middle row, which is a different and much less forgiving arrangement.
Configured as a double-row store with a central aisle serving both sides, 60x100 is judged on whether the 15 machine positions it holds match the operation, and on whether the 0 feet of spare width leaves the route this mode depends on.
- Does the work need four lanes across, or two lanes flanking an interior work hall, or does it need a second lane that this 60-foot span cannot give?
- Is the 100-foot length being bought for depth, or for the repeated bays — eight to ten repeated bays, which makes the layout a scheduling problem as much as a spatial one?
- What is the largest machine, and does the opening clear it with the cab up?
- Which machine leaves most often, and is it parked where it can?
Bay division shown here is a planning module computed from the stored length. Actual bay spacing is set by the manufacturer's frame design for the building.
Comparison
What changes at adjacent footprints
Computed comparison of nearby footprints for a equipment storage building
| Footprint | Floor area | Machine positions |
|---|---|---|
| 30x80 | 2,400 sq ft | 4 (2 x 2) |
| 40x60 | 2,400 sq ft | 2 (2 x 1) |
| 50x50 | 2,500 sq ft | 3 (3 x 1) |
| 40x70 | 2,800 sq ft | 4 (2 x 2) |
| 30x100 | 3,000 sq ft | 6 (2 x 3) |
Areas computed from each stored size record; machine position counts computed with the same 12 by 24 foot planning module.
- 30x80 moves the count from 15 to 4 machine positions (2 across by 2 deep), which is the reason to choose between them.
- 40x60 moves the count from 15 to 2 machine positions (2 across by 1 deep), which is the reason to choose between them.
- 50x50 moves the count from 15 to 3 machine positions (3 across by 1 deep), which is the reason to choose between them.
Nearby footprints read for a equipment storage building: exact change in area and in planning machine positions
| Footprint | Area Δ | % Δ | Machine positions at that footprint | What changes for this use |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 80x80 | +400 sq ft | +6.7% | 5 (5 x 1) | −10 machine positions on the same planning module. |
| 50x100 | −1,000 sq ft | −16.7% | 9 (3 x 3) | −6 machine positions on the same planning module. |
| 60x120 | +1,200 sq ft | +20% | 12 (4 x 3) | −3 machine positions on the same planning module. |
| 60x80 | −1,200 sq ft | −20% | 10 (5 x 2) | −5 machine positions on the same planning module. |
Areas are arithmetic on two stored size records; machine position counts use this platform's 12 by 24 foot planning module and are not a capacity statement.
Because this footprint is planned as a double-row store with a central aisle serving both sides, the useful next reads are different from the ones a differently shaped equipment storage building suggests: double-row store planning, central aisle sizing, seasonal position allocation.
Visualization
Reading the 60x100 footprint as a equipment storage building
FAQ
Questions about 60x100 equipment storage building projects
It depends on the tallest machine as it is driven in, including any mast, cab or raised arm. The stored configuration computes to 25.5 feet at the ridge, but the eave is the number that governs anything standing near a wall.
Reserving 20 ft across the 60 ft dimension for movement leaves 40 ft of working width, which takes 3 machine positions at 12 ft. Along 100 ft it takes 4 runs at 24 ft. That is 12 positions out of 6,000 sq ft, and the remainder is circulation, walls and the margin every plan needs. Whether that count is enough depends on is the central aisle wide enough for a machine to turn into a position, or only to drive past it. These are planning figures computed from the footprint, not a quoted layout.
5 machine positions fit across the 60-foot width with only 0 feet left over, which is a tight fit: the width is fully committed and nothing can be widened later without moving a wall. Those counts use a 12 by 24 foot planning module with 20 feet allowed for circulation, so a different module changes the answer.
By season. Sorting by size looks tidy and puts the wrong machines at the back; sorting by how soon each is wanted is what keeps retrieval short.
A 6-inch slab across 6,000 square feet computes to 111.1 cubic yards before thickened edges, piers or waste. The final design comes from the foundation engineer.
Methodology
How this page was produced
Sources and methodology
Find Steel Buildings dimensional records
Find Steel Buildings · Primary platform dataset · Tier 1 — code authority, standards body, primary dataset or manufacturer engineering
Supports: Stored nominal width, length, eave height, roof pitch and slab thickness for this subject.
International Building Code and International Residential Code
International Code Council · Model code · Tier 1 — code authority, standards body, primary dataset or manufacturer engineering
Supports: The framework of adopted codes and local amendments that decides permitting, separation and opening requirements. Cited as the governing framework, never as a local requirement.
- Dimensional figures: Width, length, eave height, roof pitch and nominal slab thickness come from this platform's stored record for the subject. Floor area, perimeter, wall area, roof area, ridge height and slab volume are computed from those inputs rather than transcribed.
- Machine position fit: Counts, leftover strips and per-module areas are computed from the stored 60x100 record against this platform's 12 by 24 foot planning module for the equipment storage building category, with 20 feet allowed for circulation. The module is editorial planning typology, not a code minimum or an engineered clearance.
- Allocation model: Zone shares come from this platform's use typology for agricultural equipment and crop shelter and are applied arithmetically to the stored 100-foot length.
- Allocation and layout models: Layout splits are arithmetic on the stored footprint, published as example allocation models. They are not survey findings and do not describe what buyers most often choose.
- Clearance and opening guidance: Clearance and opening statements are planning guidance. Final dimensions depend on the selected door system, header detail and the manufacturer's engineering for the building.
Methodology notes
- Prices: No price figure appears on this page. Cost data is published on this platform only with a documented inclusion basis, a collection date and a named source.
Cost drivers
Quantities that move the estimate at 60x100
The estimate at 60x100 moves with four computed quantities: 6,000 square feet of floor, 320 feet of perimeter, 5,760 square feet of wall and 6,185 square feet of roof. Everything else is site and specification. Neighbouring buildings, setbacks and the approach road often decide the orientation before the plan does.
The aisle is the expense: it is enclosed, roofed floor that never holds a machine. That is what buys retrieval, and narrowing it to recover area is the change most likely to be regretted.
- full-width door openings and their operation
- opening height set by the largest machine
- condensation control above stored equipment
- security provisions and hardware
Drawn to scale
Plans and dimensions
Every drawing below is generated from the exact dimensions for this building, so proportions and areas are accurate.
Compare 60x100 equipment storage building configurations
Review the allocation models for this footprint side by side, then estimate the configuration you intend to build.