Steel Buildings for What?

Steel buildings are cropping up just about everywhere, for just about every use imaginable. They’re obviously a popular choice for garages and workshops, carports and barns. In commercial real estate, they’re used as factory buildings and warehouses. On farms, you’ll often find steel buildings used as barns and for equipment storage – but those uses barely scratch the surface of the many ways that people put high-quality metal buildings to use. Here are some of the best uses for steel buildings we’ve seen in our years of covering the industry.

Church Buildings

Churches look for a combination of affordability and appearance. Most congregations find that their collection plate money goes much further when they look to steel building manufacturers for their new homes – but no congregation wants to attend services in a steel box. Luckily, that’s not an issue these days. Steel building engineers can design beautiful, soaring churches that meet all local codes for safety and durability at costs that are generally far below those for similarly sized and styled buildings made of masonry or wood.

Sports Arenas

From backyard skating rinks to college football stadiums, steel is rapidly becoming the material of choice for sports arenas. Domed steel buildings based on the Quonset buildings that became popular during the world wars offer some major benefits when used for sports and other spectator events. The domed construction provides completely unobstructed floor space and high ceilings. Even better, there’s no such thing as a bad seat when there are no posts or beams in the way to obscure the view.

Chicken Coops

On the other end of the scale, steel buildings are wonderfully adaptable to unexpected uses. That’s what a college-based organization discovered when they started looking for an inexpensive way to build urban chicken coops. Their requirements were simple: the buildings had to be attractive, easy to clean and safe. The students based their design on one of the standard styles of metal buildings – Quonset buildings – and modified it by replacing the bottom half of the walls with metal screening and building nesting shelves into the interior. The result was an attractive if very novel steel building that fits right into the urban landscape while providing city residents with that most rural of amenities – eggs, fresh from the chicken.

Of course, steel buildings also make great garages, home offices, workshops, garden sheds, storage buildings and building additions. If you’re in need of more space on your property, take a look at what a well-built metal building has to offer.