Adding an EOT crane to a finished PEB building (retrofit) typically costs 40–60% more than designing it in from the start. The additional cost covers: structural reinforcement or replacement of crane columns, additional civil foundations for new crane columns, runway beam installation with restricted access, potential re-alignment of the building frame, and re-roofing where the cladding must be cut. In severe cases, where the column grid cannot accommodate the crane wheel gauge at all, a section of the building may need to be demolished and rebuilt. Designing the crane in from day one avoids all of these costs entirely.

There is no inherent capacity limit imposed by PEB construction. For cranes up to 5 MT, the EOT crane can be supported on brackets mounted to the PEB wall columns. For cranes from 5 MT to 50 MT+ capacity, an independent crane column system is provided — dedicated structural columns with their own foundations, separate from the PEB columns. Very heavy cranes (20–200 MT) in demanding duty cycles require a full engineered crane runway system with fatigue analysis per IS:807 and FEM crane runway rules. We have designed buildings for cranes up to 50 MT and can engineer heavier systems on request.

Because we both manufacture cranes and design buildings — and no other company in the Delhi NCR region does both. Building contractors can design crane provisions into a PEB structure if given the crane specification — but they cannot supply, install and commission the crane itself. Crane manufacturers can install EOT cranes — but they cannot design the building structure around them. We do both, under one contract, with one structural engineering team, one quality management system and one handover document. This is genuinely unique in Delhi NCR and most of North India.

At the initial site visit we collect: building dimensions (length, width, required clear height); crane specification (type, lifting capacity in SWL, crane span, hook height, travel speed, duty class, wheel gauge); process layout (where the crane serves, what it handles, travel frequency); site conditions (wind zone, seismic zone, soil type, access for erection). If you don't have a fully specified crane yet, we can work from approximate capacity and span to produce a building structure that accommodates the crane class you need — we can firm up the crane specification later in the design process without redesigning the building.

A crane-ready structure costs essentially the same as a standard PEB building of equivalent size — the crane provisions (extra column weight, runway beam, brackets) are marginal additions to the total structural steel quantity when designed in from the start. The cost of the crane system itself is additional and separate. What crane-ready design eliminates entirely is the retrofit cost — which ranges from 40–60% of the original building cost when the crane is added later. So the correct question is not "does crane-ready cost more?" but "how much does non-crane-ready cost later?"

Yes — this is the entire premise of our crane-ready structures service. We supply the complete building structure (PEB frame, cladding, doors, accessories) and the complete crane system (bridge girder, end carriages, hoist unit, electrical panels, rails, buffers) under one contract. We design both, fabricate both, deliver both in coordinated sequence, and erect and commission both. You receive one contract, one set of coordinated drawings, one ISO 9001:2015 quality record, one load test certificate and one combined maintenance manual.

The primary standard for crane structures in India is IS:807 — Code of Practice for Design, Manufacture, Erection and Testing of Cranes and Hoists. Crane runway beam design follows IS:807 fatigue loading categories and deflection limits (L/600 vertical and lateral for most industrial cranes). Building structure design follows IS:800, IS:875 and IS:1893. FEM (Fédération Européenne de la Manutention) crane classification rules are applied for duty cycle and fatigue category determination. Crane commissioning and load testing follows IS:3177 — load test at 125% SWL (static) and 110% SWL (dynamic).