Every Toro building goes through the same core process, whatever its size: you design it, our in-house engineering team reviews it against the exact code requirements of your site, you receive stamped drawings, and only then does it go to manufacturing. That in-house review is the step many suppliers skip — and it’s why Toro won’t sell a building until our engineers have approved it for the specific address where it will stand. Here’s how Toro’s steel building engineering process works.
Step 1: You Design Your Building
Using Toro’s 3D Building Designer, you configure your building’s size, door and window placement, endwall style, and layout, and see a realistic representation of the building before you commit to an order — not just a spec sheet. A Building Specialist can help you refine the design around how you’ll actually use the space.
Step 2: In-House Engineering Review
Once your design is finalized, it goes to Toro’s in-house engineering team — licensed Professional Engineers in both Canada and the United States. They review the design against the specific wind, snow, and seismic loads for your exact site, based on the codes your jurisdiction has adopted. Loads can vary dramatically even between nearby locations, so this review is done for every order, not as an optional upgrade.
Meet Noah Sinclair
Noah Sinclair leads engineering review at Toro, bringing the technical expertise that makes site-specific compliance review possible on every building we sell.
What Happens If a Design Doesn’t Meet Code?
If your design as submitted doesn’t meet your site’s requirements, our engineering team works with you to adjust it — heavier steel gauges, additional bracing, or a revised configuration — until it does. This is also why the price of a building depends so much on location: Toro’s steel building kits start at $19 to $26 per square foot for the shell. The $19 end reflects a site with virtually no wind, snow, or seismic load, and the price rises with the engineering your address actually requires.
Why In-House Engineering Matters
Many companies in the prefabricated steel building industry are distributors: they resell a manufacturer’s catalog without engineering staff of their own. Code compliance review, if it happens at all, may be generic or outsourced. At Toro, the team that reviews your design is part of the company that manufactures your building. That means one accountable team from design to delivery, direct answers to technical questions, and a building engineered for your site rather than a regional average.
Step 3: Stamped Drawings
Once your design passes engineering review, you receive engineer-stamped drawings specific to your building and site — the documents your building department needs for your permit, and the foundation reactions and anchor bolt details your contractor needs for the foundation. For orders built to the CAN/CSA-A660 standard, this includes a signed and sealed Certificate of Design and Manufacturing Conformance.
Step 4: Manufacturing and Quality Control
Your building is then manufactured across Toro’s network of 30+ manufacturing facilities in North America. Toro is certified to the CAN/CSA-A660 standard for steel building manufacturers and AISC-accredited, with welding to AWS D1.1 standards and products certified to a range of UL and FM standards. Components are precision-cut and pre-punched, so everything fits together on site with nut-and-bolt assembly.
Step 5: Delivery and Assembly
Your building ships to your site with detailed assembly instructions. Toro designs, engineers, manufactures, and ships the kit; you or your local contractor build the foundation to the stamped drawings and assemble the building.
Do I Need My Own Engineer?
For the building itself, no — Toro’s in-house engineering team handles the structural design and code review for your exact location as part of every order. Some owners choose to hire a local engineer for site-specific work outside the building, such as soil evaluation or foundation design on difficult ground, and your municipality may have its own requirements.
Permits, Codes & Engineering
Toro’s engineering follows the ASCE 7 standard from the American Society of Civil Engineers, as referenced by the International Code Council‘s International Building Code, and the National Building Code of Canada, with steel design to American Iron and Steel Institute and CSA Group specifications.
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