Floor Plan Options Are Wide Open in Steel Buildings

If you drive around any city or town, you’ll see that the trend in construction is toward steel buildings. While there are many reasons for the popularity of metal building construction, a major part of the appeal is versatility, both inside and out. One very big selling point of steel buildings is that the most common methods of construction provide a wide-open floor plan and a much more economical use of interior space.

There are two major types of steel building construction – pole building and arch construction. Both provide a clear interior space because all of the building weight is held by the exterior walls or metal poles. That means you don’t have to compromise your floor plan for the sake of load-bearing walls, columns or beams.

The result is a great deal of versatility in planning the interior of steel buildings that’s especially evident in residential storage buildings and garages. You’ll have wide open, barn-like interior spaces that you can leave as is or divide up in any way you like. You can even choose to use modular walls and screens so that you can easily rearrange your interior space when you want to add offices or reshuffle rooms.

In barns, garages and warehouse buildings, the open space makes it much easier to move around the interior. You can easily maneuver machinery around the interior without worrying about walls and columns getting in the way. It also means that you can easily reconfigure your storage and equipment space to suit your current needs.

If your reconfiguration includes adding more space, you’ll find that adding on to steel buildings is considerably easier than building an addition onto conventional construction. In many cases, adding more space to your steel building is a simple matter of removing one of the end walls and extending the roof and sides, then recapping the end with the original wall.

 The flexible interior, along with the far lower cost, contribute greatly to the rising popularity of steel buildings for residential purposes. A mid-size building provides plenty of interior space to fit several rooms – or leave the interior completely open to take enjoy the spaciousness. You can choose to bolt interior walls in place permanently, or take advantage of one of the many modular interior packages available for use with steel buildings.

The versatility of steel buildings continues to provide advantages over the years. Because there are no load-bearing walls that must be considered, the ability to rearrange the floor plan can be a major selling point when you’re looking for tenants or planning to sell your metal building.