Warehouse Suitability Checklist
The specification thresholds a buyer or occupier should confirm before shortlisting an industrial property — checked against your actual operating requirement rather than a generic Grade A definition.
The building
Enter what the marketing pack claims. Then measure it yourself on site and enter that instead — the gap between the two is frequently the finding.
Your operating requirement
3 of 6 checks pass
Not suitable as specifiedShort by 0.50m. At roughly 1.5m per racking level, that is likely a full level of storage volume.
Grade A convention is around 5 T/m² with FM2 flatness in trimix or VDF concrete.
Meets the roughly one-per-10,000-sq-ft convention, at ~1.2m dock height.
Short by 250 KVA. Upgrading sanctioned load after signing is slow and occasionally not possible at scale.
Short by 1.5m for 40-foot trailers. Excellent docks with an inadequate apron means trailers queue on the road.
"Grade A" is a market convention, not a certified standard. If a building does not meet it, it should be priced as Grade B regardless of how it is marketed.
- Fire NOC covering your actual storage category, not a generic one
- Industrial zoning or KIADB position, and change-of-use exposure
- Highway access measured from the parcel’s real access point
- Floor flatness certificate (FM2), separately from the load rating
Construction Cost & Timeline Estimator
A defensible budget range and timeline before you commission a detailed estimate.
Corridor Price Comparison
Where your budget actually reaches, and what the trade-off is in each corridor.
Commercial vs Residential Zoning Checker
A corridor-level answer in a minute, and a clear statement of what still needs parcel-level checking.