Why Steel Buildings Are the Perfect Choice for Horse Barns

Steel buildings are a common choice for equipment storage, garages and other buildings on the farm, but they offer stable owners a number of advantages when used as horse barns. If you’re looking to build a new horse barn or replace one of the horse barns on you property, check out these benefits of choosing steel buildings for your needs.

Design Flexibility

Steel buildings offer the most flexible design options of any type of construction. Depending on the style and size chosen, you can have completely clear floor space of 300 feet or more. Because most steel buildings don’t need interior support columns, the interior space is completely unobstructed. That makes them ideal not only as horse barns, but as riding arenas and practice rings as well.

You also have flexibility in sizing your barn when you choose a metal building. You can purchase steel buildings as small as 25 feet across or as large as 300 feet across. As far as length goes, your horse barns can be as long as you want them to be. You can even expand steel barns easily as you add more capacity if you plan ahead. You can just remove the end wall, add more framing and wall panels to the end and replace the end wall.

Health and Safety

Steel buildings are non-combustible, making them much safer for animal housing in general, since the building itself will not add fuel to a fire, nor will it collapse in case of a fire. This also generally results in lower insurance costs for the owners of steel barns.

Steel doesn’t provide food for insects, nor does it promote the growth of mold, offering a healthier general environment for your horses. In addition, because you can place openings virtually anywhere in the walls or roof of the building, it’s easy to provide proper ventilation. In fact, the Healthy House Institute recommends steel buildings for better indoor air quality.

Durability

Steel buildings must meet the most stringent building codes in any area in which you build them. That means they’ll stand up to just about anything Mother Nature tosses at them, including high force winds and heavy snow. In many cases, steel structures have remained standing after an environmental event has collapsed or heavily damaged surrounding buildings.

Eco-friendly

Steel is a green building material for many reasons. It is the most recycled material in the world, and many steel buildings contain almost 100% recycled steel. There is very little waste involved in erecting steel buildings, and in the end, steel barns can be dismantled and reassembled elsewhere, or taken to the recycler to start life anew again.