Steel Buildings for Winning Portable Offices

You’ve probably noticed small steel buildings being used on residential properties as storage buildings, garages, greenhouses and for various other uses. You may also see larger metal buildings, particularly Quonset steel buildings, in agricultural uses, for grain storage and animal housing, among other things. Those uses only barely scratch the surface of the ways that you can use versatile steel buildings. Consider, for example, how easy it would be to erect a steel building as a satellite office or a portable office for use on job sites.

Steel buildings are the ideal solution for strategic offices used to oversee and guide the opening and deployment of a new business. Setting up a new satellite office is challenging at the best of times. Businesses that are launching a new store, branch location or restaurant often end up renting hall space or hotel/conference room space in local hotels to interview prospective employees and provide a headquarters space for the overseers and managers. That can run into considerable expense, especially when you’re opening a string of satellite branches around the country.

Steel buildings offer a practical and elegant solution to the problem of providing office space for the layout team. One of the little-discussed advantages of using steel buildings is that they be taken apart, unbolted from their foundation and rebuilt on another site – with the same high quality standards each time you rebuild them.

While some companies set up a construction trailer to serve this purpose, a metal building has a sense of permanency and professionalism that a trailer doesn’t offer. A small steel building with room for a reception office, a conference room and one or two private offices doesn’t need much in the way of a foundation. In fact, pouring a basic concrete slab foundation will cost less than it costs to hire out a conference room and offices for the duration of your stay – and the benefits are much greater.

You can design the building to suit the needs of your startup staff so that no matter where you set it down – or set it up – geographically, you’ll be bringing the functionality you need with you. And because the buildings are so easy to erect and tear down, you can have your portable satellite office up and ready for occupancy within a few days to a week. Once you have your home base office set up, your management and launch team can move in and be on site to deal with issues as they arise. When it’s time to move on to another location, the building can be disassembled, packed on a truck and shipped to its new location, where a new foundation is waiting for it.

Steel buildings offer many advantages and benefits, and their versatility suits them to being repurposed for any use you might have in the future. If you’re getting ready to launch a new business or need a satellite office, consider how a steel building can work for your needs.