Steel Buildings Make Great Portable Offices

These days, it’s becoming more and more common to see small steel buildings in residential neighborhoods. They’re used as garages, greenhouses, storage buildings and home offices. In rural areas, it’s not unusual to see larger metal buildings, especially Quonset buildings, being used for grain storage, as barns and to house large equipment. Those are a mere handful of the many ways that steel buildings can be used.

One of the major benefits of today’s steel buildings is how easy they are to erect and deconstruct. Their portability and recyclability makes metal buildings an ideal solution for any business that sets up satellite offices to open new branches. Restaurants, retail stores and other businesses often spend a lot of money renting hotel rooms and conference space in local restaurants, hotels and convention centers to interview prospective employees and provide an HQ for their executive startup teams. Those rentals can run into quite an expense, especially for a company that opens multiple offices and branches yearly.

Practical and Elegant Solution

Steel buildings are a practical and elegant solution to housing and providing office space for the startup team. Pre-engineered metal buildings can be taken apart, unbolted from their foundations and erected on another foundation on another site. Instead of purchasing an entirely new building – or spending thousands of dollars a day to put up officers in hotels and rent conference rooms – a company buys a building once, and then only has to pay for the cement slab foundation in each subsequent worksite.

Better Than a Construction Trailer

Why not just use a construction trailer for the same purpose? Trailers and RVs certainly can be used this way, but they don’t have the same sense of permanence and professionalism offered by a steel building. A well-designed metal building can easily include a reception office, executive offices and a conference room, all contained in a shell-within-a-shell construction.

It’s easy to design a building that will suit the needs of your startup staff, and since those needs don’t change from one location to another, you’ll be bringing the functionality you need with you and just putting it down where you need it. If your building is small and simple, you can easily get your portable satellite office up and occupied within a week. When it’s time to move on to a new location, it only takes a few days to deconstruct and move your building with your startup team.

Steel buildings offer versatility, economy and more. If you’re getting ready to launch a new office or branch of your company, get it off the ground right with a comfortable, well-appointed office that’s familiar and ready to support your staff in style.