Walk-In Cold Room or Built Cold Store? How to Choose | VIKKINS
Walk-In Cold Room vs Built Cold Store: How to Choose Before You Buy A turnkey cold-store building — steel structure and insulated envelope delivered as one system. When comparing walk-in cold room vs built cold store, understanding the difference is critical. Cold storage is not one product. It is a spectrum — from a small […]
Power Plant Steel Structure: Heavy Steel, Shipped Worldwide
A power plant steel structure is one of the most demanding a fabricator will ever build. It is not simply a warehouse with a taller roof: it carries heavy boilers and turbines, dynamic equipment loads, tall stacks and dense pipe racks, all working as one structure. So when an energy developer or EPC contractor sources […]
Industrial Steel Structures: One Package for the Whole Plant
Industrial steel structures are almost always more than one building. A working plant is a main hall or multi-storey block, yes — but also the elevated pipe racks that carry services, the conveyor galleries and the bridges that link one structure to the next. When all of that steel is designed and supplied as one […]
Steel Building Installation: Supplied to Bolt Together
Steel building installation is the part overseas buyers worry about most: you are on the other side of the world from the factory, so who actually raises the building? With Vikkins the answer is clear — we supply the building as a bolt-together kit with drawings and installation guidance, and your own team or a […]
What Is a Portal Frame Building? A Buyer’s Guide
← Back to News Home / Product knowledge / What Is a Portal Frame Building? If you’ve looked at steel warehouses, workshops or factories, you’ve almost certainly been looking at portal frame buildings — even if no one called them that. The portal frame is the most common form of steel structure for wide, single-storey […]
What Is a Container Cold Room? A Buyer’s Guide
← Back to News Home / Product knowledge / What Is a Container Cold Room? If you need cold storage but can’t — or don’t want to — build a fixed room on site, a container cold room is often the fastest way to get there. It arrives as a complete, ready-to-run cold room built […]
Steel Building Construction Time: Weeks, Not Months
← Back to News Home / Product knowledge / Why Steel Buildings Go Up in Weeks, Not Months Every month a building sits unfinished is a month it earns nothing — while rent, loan interest and delayed operations keep running. That’s why steel building construction time is often the number that matters most, more than […]
Cold Storage in Hot Climates: 5 Rules for Africa & the Gulf
A refrigerated warehouse delivered by Vikkins — designed for the ambient heat and humidity of its market, not a temperate one. A cold room that performs beautifully in a temperate country can struggle the moment it is built somewhere hot. Cold storage in hot climates has to fight a much bigger temperature gap, higher humidity, […]
Cold Room Doors: 6 Specs That Make or Break the Seal
Vikkins hinged cold room doors with stainless hinges, lever locks and a frame-mounted controller. The panels get all the attention, but the cold room door is where most cold rooms quietly leak money. It is the one part that moves thousands of times, gets knocked by forklifts, and has to seal against a temperature gap […]
Cage vs Deep-Litter Poultry House: Which to Build?
The choice of cage vs deep litter is usually framed as a husbandry decision — but it is just as much a building decision. A deep-litter (floor) house and a multi-tier cage or aviary house keep the same birds, yet they are completely different structures: different eave heights, floors, ventilation and loads, and a very […]
Poultry House Design: Building for Flock Health and ROI
Poultry House Design: Building for Flock Health and ROI A modern poultry house is a climate machine, not a shed with birds in it. For a broiler or layer producer, the building quietly decides your feed conversion, your mortality, and whether output holds through a summer heat wave and a winter cold snap. Cut the […]
Prefab Steel Goes Up Like Building Blocks — But Read the Steel Building Quote First
Prefabricated Steel Structures: Built Like Building Blocks, Across Every Field A prefabricated steel structure is engineered and fabricated in a factory as a kit of parts — columns, beams, trusses, purlins, bolts and insulated panels — then shipped and bolted together on site like building blocks. That single idea is why the same system can […]