This guiding principle is true of designs for industrial buildings as well. The days of standard size sheds in industrial estates are gone. Modern industrial buildings need production rooms and labs with humidity and temperature controlled areas, customised spaces for robotic operations and mechanised material movement, overhead cranes etc. Every layout is done keeping in mind the process flow, the material movement, temperature sensitive zones, overall light and ventilation, storage and movement of raw material, inventories and dispatch of finished goods.
The variety of such structures and buildings include:
Chemical process plants
Woven sack plants,
Mini steel plants and special structures for molten metal, furnace platforms
A plant using lost wax process for special metal castings among others.