Eight Commercial Uses for Steel Buildings

Steel buildings are growing in popularity for residential uses – private garages, home workshops and storage buildings, to name a few – but their use is also spreading into commercial arenas in areas that aren’t typically acknowledged. Most people know about steel skyscrapers and office buildings, but here are eight commercial uses for steel buildings that you might not have considered.

Sports Facilities

Sure, metal is common in building huge sports arenas, but steel buildings are also the ideal choice for many smaller sports facilities. Quonset buildings are the perfect choice for buildings that need high center ceilings and unobstructed interior space. The domed steel buildings are perfect for use as indoor volleyball courts, tennis courts and indoor tracks. They’re also ideal for use as roller skating and ice skating rinks and as covers for indoor pools.

Individual Garages

Yes, there are enormous steel parking garages that are meant for retail and office parking, but some residential planners are using mini-storage steel buildings for a rather novel use – to provide individual garages for residents in duplex and townhouse developments. Unlike large parking lots and open parking garages, the mini-storage buildings provide each tenant with his or her own private space and storage area.

Boat Storage

As crew and sculling become more popular sports at the high school level, school departments and municipalities are faced with finding storage space for boats and other crew equipment. Steel buildings are affordable, weather-safe, meet all local building standards and provide unobstructed interior storage space for boat cradles and other boat storage.

Airplane Hangars

The arch-domed construction of most steel buildings provides plenty of interior space for garaging large vehicles like airplanes. With no need for interior support posts, metal buildings allow for easy maneuvering of airplanes and equipment.

Animal Shelters

Animal shelters, veterinarians’ offices and other animal-centered businesses turn to steel buildings for housing animals for many reasons. Steel is affordable and easy to build, but more importantly, it’s easy to disinfect and clean, a vital factor when you’re housing dogs, cats and other animals in large numbers.

Dance Studios

Metal buildings provide a number of important advantages when used as dance studios. The biggest of these, of course, is the completely open interior, which can easily be reconfigured for various uses. A steel building provides plenty of interior space for practice halls, dressing rooms and exhibition space.

Houses of Worship

It may be stretching the definition of commercial to apply it to churches, but they are public buildings meant to be used by a community. More and more church communities are choosing the convenience and affordability of steel when building a new home for their congregations.

Craft and Art Studios

Many crafters who choose to turn their hobbies into businesses find that a steel building is the ideal home for their workshop/studio. Steel buildings are attractive, affordable and easy to maintain, and can be built in far less time than conventional structures.

If you’re considering a small commercial business that needs a home, consider the many benefits and advantages of steel buildings for your particular application. You can build far more affordably and easily than you think.