When You Choose Steel Buildings

When you choose a steel building for your space, storage or other needs, you’re choosing a structure that provides a number of unexpected advantages and benefits. Widely used as garages, storage buildings, factories, barns and workshops, steel buildings are affordable, versatile, attractive and sturdy. They’re also environmentally friendly in a number of surprising ways. Here’s a quick listing of what you choose when you choose steel buildings for your needs.

You Choose to Save Money

A steel building will save you money throughout its entire life cycle. Steel is more affordable than other building materials. A metal building costs less the erect because you save money on the foundation and on labor. Most steel buildings are cheaper to heat and cool than traditional structures. Since they require very little maintenance, you’ll save on repainting and repair costs, and you won’t be risking infestation by pests like termites and woodpeckers. Finally, you’ll often get far cheaper insurance premiums on a steel building than you will on a metal building.

You Choose to Preserve the Earth’s Resources

Steel buildings are sourced almost entirely from post-consumer recycled steel, so you won’t be stripping the Earth of its limited resources. Because most steel buildings are delivered on one truck – complete with everything you need to build it except the foundation – you’ll be leaving a smaller carbon footprint. And when you’re done with your metal building, you can disassemble it and sell it to someone else, or sell it to be melted down and recycled, saving space in our already overcrowded landfills.

You Choose Versatility

Because metal buildings don’t require interior support beams and posts, you get a totally customizable interior space. That allows you to build and divide your interior in whatever way works for you. You can put in a loft, divide the space into two or three or four rooms, build animal stalls or create an entirely open floor plan. And when the layout no longer suits your needs, you don’t have to worry about affecting load-bearing walls or support posts. You can simply rearrange the interior walls.

You Choose Longevity

While most metal buildings only warrant their paint jobs and roofs for about 20 years, you can expect to get a much longer stretch of usable life when you choose to build a metal building. Steel buildings that were erected in the 1950s and 1960s are still standing strong, even after surviving hurricanes, earthquakes and other severe natural events.

When you choose a steel building you’re making one of the smartest, most affordable choices available. Why would you even consider anything else?