Many Uses for Steel Buildings

Steel buildings have come of age. Once regarded as a cheap alternative to “real” or permanent structures, steel buildings are now the go-to choice for many business and resident uses. They’re used for storage, garages, airplane hangars, housing, animal shelter, emergency shelters and far more. In fact, there are very few uses for which a steel building is not suited. Would a steel building be the best choice for your project?

Garages and Vehicle Storage

Whether you’re building a single-car garage or need vehicle storage for dozens of city buses, steel buildings offer an advantage you won’t get with traditional wood structures—unobstructed space. The arch-frame construction used for erecting a metal building requires no internal columns for support. That means you never have to maneuver around support posts and columns when parking and moving your vehicles around the garage.

Farm Storage and Other Agricultural Uses

The unobstructed interior is also an advantage if you need to park a tractor or other farm equipment. Farms of all types often choose a steel structure as a barn alternative or to replace other outbuildings on the farm. Quonset buildings are easier to erect, shed snow more readily, are safer in high wind situations and are naturally resistant to most types of decay and rot, making them a low-maintenance choice for essential buildings on and around an agricultural operation.

Home Offices and Workshops

The trend toward telecommuting has made it more popular than ever for people to work from a home office. A stand-alone steel building makes an ideal home office for most home workers. Metal buildings are easier and cheaper to erect than wood frame construction, and often don’t require special building permits. Most steel building kits don’t need a dug foundation, cutting the expense still further. Maintaining a separate office or workshop for your home business cuts down distractions, helps put you into “work mode” and makes it easier to separate out work expenses for your taxes.

Garden Houses and Storage

Why rent an off-site storage unit when you can erect your own garden house or storage unit on your own property? You can configure the interior of an arch-frame steel building to suit any need. Add shelves for storage, bins and racks for organizing gardening tools and equipment, even build in a cold frame with bedding tables to get a jump start on spring planting.

Steel buildings come in a huge variety of sizes, styles and colors suitable for just about any use you can imagine. If you’re considering adding a room or a building to your property, contact a supplier of metal and steel-framed building to learn more about the advantages of building with steel.