Building Types
80x150 Manufacturing Steel Building
- Width
- 80 ft
- Length
- 150 ft
- Floor area
- 12,000 sq ft
- Perimeter
- 460 ft
Quick dimensions
At a Glance
Width
80 ft across the gable end.
Length
150 ft along the sidewall.
Floor area
12,000 sq ft of clear floor.
Eave height
24 ft at the sidewall on the stored profile.
Configuration
How This Building Is Configured
Configuration summary
| Building type | Manufacturing Building |
|---|---|
| Footprint | 80 ft × 150 ft |
| Floor area | 12,000 sq ft |
| Eave height | 24 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 is commonly the governing dimension here, because clearance for the tallest item sets the door and the wall.
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.
Use
How a 80×150 Manufacturing Building May Be Used
Production or storage flow
Material entering one end and leaving the other is a common organising principle.
Loading access
Dock or grade-level door placement is usually decided before the frame layout.
Racking and clear height
Usable stacking height depends on eave height and any interior structure.
Equipment and services
Power, compressed air and lighting layouts follow the bay spacing.
Example
Example Configuration
Access
Doors & Access Considerations
Opening width
Across a 80 ft gable end, the practical opening width is limited by the frame and confirmed with the supplier.
Opening height
A 24 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 Manufacturing Building
80′ × 130′
10,400 sq ft
80′ × 170′
13,600 sq ft
70′ × 150′
10,500 sq ft
Related
Related Building Types
Example configuration — for planning purposes only.
FAQ
Common Questions
80 ft × 150 ft is 12,000 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 80x150 manufacturing building planned as an assembly floor with a separated finishing end
This page is ordered around availability, because at sustained output the constraint is how long the floor runs between interruptions rather than how much floor there is.
The footprint holds 12 assembly positions — 3 across by 4 deep — and the remaining 8 feet is marginal: there is no separated finishing end, so finishing happens on the assembly floor and is scheduled around it rather than run alongside it.
What distinguishes 80x150 is depth behaviour: 4 rows along 150 feet after 14 feet of circulation, with 8 feet unaccounted for at the end of the run. Doors and their approaches decide more about daily use here than the enclosed area does.
A 80 by 150 footprint is a clearly directional plan: 12,000 sq ft enclosed by 460 ft of wall, at a 1.9:1 length-to-width proportion. Along its 150 ft dimension it takes 4 runs of assembly positions at 32 ft, leaving 22 ft over — the 22 ft is where the argument about this size actually happens. Taken purely as arithmetic, 80 by 150 gives 3 assembly positions across the 80 ft dimension once 14 ft is reserved for movement, and 4 deep along the 150 ft dimension. Run as a an assembly floor with a separated finishing end, 0 ft across is below the 12 ft this use needs to be worth planning, so there is no separated finishing end, so finishing happens on the assembly floor and is scheduled around it rather than run alongside it Noise and vibration from a process are a separation problem inside the building and a boundary question outside it, determined for the specific site.
At 80x150 the operating question is a specific one: can this plan keep the clean end genuinely clean, or does the finished work share air and traffic with the work that generates dust? That is a different question from the one a manufacturing building of another shape has to answer, and it is why this footprint is planned as an assembly floor with a separated finishing end rather than as generic covered area.
Areas, perimeter, roof area, ridge height, slab volume and the assembly position counts on this page are computed from the stored 80x150 record and this platform's planning module for the manufacturing building category.
Configurations
Configuring 12 assembly positions at 80x150
At 25-foot nominal bays the structure works with the layout instead of against it: one assembly position per bay line, walls free of awkward half-positions. Two operations of the same size can want opposite plans, so the arithmetic below is a starting point rather than a recommendation.
Depth here creates a hierarchy: 4 rows means front positions get used and rear positions get filled. Deciding which is which up front is what keeps 80x150 workable. An empty building looks generous and a working one rarely does; plan against the working state.
Assembly extends; finishing is re-provided rather than stretched, because its enclosure and services are what define it.
Configured as an assembly floor with a separated finishing end, 80x150 is judged on whether the 12 assembly positions it holds match the operation, and on whether the 14 feet of spare width leaves the route this mode depends on.
- Does the work need racking or work zones on both sides with a full vehicle lane down the middle, or does it need a second lane that this 80-foot span cannot give?
- Is the 150-foot length being bought for depth, or for the repeated bays — a long repeating bay sequence, so segment boundaries are set by bay lines rather than by walls?
- Is the machine list fixed, and has the line order been drawn before the building?
- Can a machine be removed and replaced without shutting the line?
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.
Usable area
How the 12,000 square feet divides at 80x150
Computed assembly position fit for a 80x150 manufacturing building
| Measure | Computed at this footprint |
|---|---|
| Assembly positions across the 80-foot width | 3 at a 22-foot module |
| Leftover width | 14 ft (2,100 sq ft as a full-length strip) |
| Rows along the 150-foot length | 4 at a 32-foot module after 14 ft of circulation |
| Leftover depth | 8 ft (640 sq ft across the width) |
| Total assembly positions | 12 |
| Share of floor committed | 70% |
Module footprint used here is 22 by 32 feet, this platform's planning module for a manufacturing building. It is not a code minimum or an engineered clearance.
Example allocation of the 150-foot length — planning model, not survey data
| Zone | Length along the building | Computed area |
|---|---|---|
| Production floor | 82.5 ft | 6,600 sq ft |
| Material handling and staging | 42 ft | 3,360 sq ft |
| Support, office and utility | 25.5 ft | 2,040 sq ft |
Shares applied to the stored 150-foot length; areas computed against the 80-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.
Openings
Openings for 3 assembly positions across
The 80-foot gable can carry 3 openings, one per assembly position, with 14 feet of wall left for piers between and beside them — the arrangement that keeps each position independently reachable. Neighbouring buildings, setbacks and the approach road often decide the orientation before the plan does.
The 80 ft ends and the 150 ft sides offer very different opening budgets: 80 ft of end wall has room for one wide opening or two modest ones, while 150 ft of side wall can carry several without the openings competing. On this plan the deciding factor is whether assembly and finishing layout or clean end separation should be the first thing reached from the door.
Material received at the head of the line and product shipped from the tail, which is what keeps the two flows from colliding.
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.
Height
Interior height for a 80x150 manufacturing building
Span drives headroom at 80x150: 80 feet of width on a 4:12 pitch puts 37.3 feet over the middle and 24 feet at the walls, so where a tall item stands matters as much as how tall it is. Ground conditions and drainage decide the floor before the frame does.
Height on a 80 ft span is a separate decision from the 150 ft length, and it is the span that sets the frame's behavior. Raising the eave over 12,000 sq ft affects every bay along the 150 ft dimension, so the test is whether assembly and finishing layout genuinely needs the extra clear height or only the floor area.
Ventilation across 12,000 square feet at this height: process extraction at machine positions, planned with the equipment rather than after it.
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.
Allocation
Dividing the floor for an assembly floor with a separated finishing end
The production arrangement this floor could equally be laid out for is one production line running end to end through the building: there is no buffer at either end, so the line starts and stops with the delivery vehicle and with the collection. Dividing the 12,000 sq ft by the 22 by 32 ft assembly position gives roughly 12 positions before circulation is deducted a second time for cross movement. Whether the plan keeps 12 or drops to 8 comes back to the question this footprint is really answering: can this plan keep the clean end genuinely clean, or does the finished work share air and traffic with the work that generates dust?
Treating the last 8 feet as a room is the recurring planning error at 80x150: there is no separated finishing end, so finishing happens on the assembly floor and is scheduled around it rather than run alongside it. The building is fixed for decades while the operation inside it changes every few years, and the plan has to survive that.
The 14 feet of spare width runs the whole 150-foot length — 2,100 square feet of wall strip. It earns its keep as shelving, staging or a walking route, not as another assembly position. The floor treatment is a use decision that outlasts most of the equipment standing on it.
Compared with a 80 by 110 of the same width, the extra depth here adds run rather than reach: it buys about 4 assembly positions in line, and every position past the second is retrieved by moving what stands in front of it. Spent as a square 110 by 110 instead, the same 12,000 sq ft would stand 4 assembly positions across rather than 3, and would trade this plan's length for parallel access. That is the width-against-depth decision this footprint has already made. A building of this size behaves like a small yard under a roof: zones need to be defined, signed and left alone, or they migrate. Work runs one way and never returns, which is what keeps the clean end clean. Any rework route needs to be planned explicitly, because unplanned rework travels straight back through the finished area. A production plan is judged on sequence and interruption, not on floor area. That movement pattern, not the 12,000-square-foot total, is what decides whether the leftover 8 feet is useful here.
Cost drivers
Quantities that move the estimate at 80x150
Quantities, not prices, are publishable here: roof cladding runs 12,649 square feet — 5% above the 12,000-square-foot floor at a 4:12 pitch — with 222.2 cubic yards of nominal slab beneath it. The plan should survive the day the largest item the operation owns has to come inside.
The finishing end carries the disproportionate cost: air handling, lighting, surfaces and separation. Planning it as a defined area rather than as a portion of the floor is what keeps that cost contained.
- clear height for machine access and overhead handling
- power capacity for the equipment set
- foundation and slab requirements under machines, which are engineering items
- extraction at process positions
Comparison
What changes at adjacent footprints
Computed comparison of nearby footprints for a manufacturing building
| Footprint | Floor area | Assembly positions |
|---|---|---|
| 60x80 | 4,800 sq ft | 2 (2 x 1) |
| 40x120 | 4,800 sq ft | 8 (2 x 4) |
| 50x100 | 5,000 sq ft | 6 (2 x 3) |
| 60x100 | 6,000 sq ft | 4 (2 x 2) |
| 50x120 | 6,000 sq ft | 8 (2 x 4) |
Areas computed from each stored size record; assembly position counts computed with the same 22 by 32 foot planning module.
- 60x80 moves the count from 12 to 2 assembly positions (2 across by 1 deep), which is the reason to choose between them.
- 40x120 moves the count from 12 to 8 assembly positions (2 across by 4 deep), which is the reason to choose between them.
- 50x100 moves the count from 12 to 6 assembly positions (2 across by 3 deep), which is the reason to choose between them.
Nearby footprints read for a manufacturing building: exact change in area and in planning assembly positions
| Footprint | Area Δ | % Δ | Assembly positions at that footprint | What changes for this use |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100x100 | −2,000 sq ft | −16.7% | 8 (4 x 2) | −4 assembly positions on the same planning module. |
| 80x120 | −2,400 sq ft | −20% | 9 (3 x 3) | −3 assembly positions on the same planning module. |
| 100x150 | +3,000 sq ft | +25% | 20 (5 x 4) | +8 assembly positions on the same planning module. |
| 60x150 | −3,000 sq ft | −25% | 15 (3 x 5) | +3 assembly positions on the same planning module. |
Areas are arithmetic on two stored size records; assembly position counts use this platform's 22 by 32 foot planning module and are not a capacity statement.
Because this footprint is planned as an assembly floor with a separated finishing end, the useful next reads are different from the ones a differently shaped manufacturing building suggests: assembly and finishing layout, clean end separation, one-way production route.
Visualization
Reading the 80x150 footprint as a manufacturing building
FAQ
Questions about 80x150 manufacturing building projects
11,040 square feet of wall and 12,649 square feet of roof at a 4:12 pitch — the roof exceeding the floor by 5%.
Reserving 14 ft across the 80 ft dimension for movement leaves 66 ft of working width, which takes 3 assembly positions at 22 ft. Along 150 ft it takes 4 runs at 32 ft. That is 12 positions out of 12,000 sq ft, and the remainder is circulation, walls and the margin every plan needs. Whether that count is enough depends on can this plan keep the clean end genuinely clean, or does the finished work share air and traffic with the work that generates dust. These are planning figures computed from the footprint, not a quoted layout.
The width leaves 14 feet spare after 3 assembly positions. That margin absorbs wall storage and passing room. Width is the dimension that cannot be extended later.
It needs its own route back, planned deliberately. Without one it travels through the clean end, which is exactly the traffic the layout exists to prevent.
Length here buys 4 rows and 6 nominal bays; width buys 3 positions side by side. At this aspect ratio the building is already long for its span, so extra length adds depth rather than capacity.
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.
- Assembly position fit: Counts, leftover strips and per-module areas are computed from the stored 80x150 record against this platform's 22 by 32 foot planning module for the manufacturing building category, with 14 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 production and industrial operations and are applied arithmetically to the stored 150-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.
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Plans and dimensions
Every drawing below is generated from the exact dimensions for this building, so proportions and areas are accurate.
Compare 80x150 manufacturing building configurations
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