Top Six Reasons to Choose Steel Buildings

Steel has been the construction material of choice for skyscrapers and commercial construction since the late 1800s, when the first tall buildings started going up in the big cities. Smaller builders were slower to adopt steel buildings, but in recent years, they’ve been growing in popularity for use as garages and barns, storage buildings and even home additions. There are some excellent reasons for the popularity of steel buildings. These are the top six reasons that you should consider steel for your next building project.

Great Savings

For decades, steel buildings have been cost-competitive to traditional building materials and methods. You only pay for the construction materials that are used – there’s no waste as there is with wood-frame buildings and concrete. Because steel buildings require minimal foundations, you save money on the foundation, and because they go up more quickly than traditional buildings, you save money on labor costs for construction. In addition, you’ll save money over the life of the building on reduced insurance premiums that reflect their durability and fire resistance.

Quick Construction

Erecting a steel building is easy and fast. Even inexperienced builders can put a metal building up quickly, and a contractor crew with experience in erecting steel buildings can put one together in record time. Because all the parts are pre-fabricated, pre-cut and pre-drilled, construction is merely a matter of moving the pieces into place and fastening them with stainless steel fasteners.

Extreme Durability

Steel buildings are engineered to meet or exceed the building codes, making them extremely durable under the most extreme weather and environmental conditions. Steel doesn’t rot, shrink, break or crack like wood does, and it is not hospitable to mold or insects. Steel is also non-combustible, so fire does not spread easily.

Versatility

Steel buildings are not metal boxes any more. With the full range of new technologies available, steel buildings can look like just about anything you want. While many of the metal buildings sold are still Quonset buildings or some variation of them, there are also garages and barns made of steel that are virtually indistinguishable from their traditional counterparts.

Environmentally Friendly

Most of the steel used in steel buildings is recycled, and will be recycled. The benefits include reducing the stress on our natural resources and promoting the re-use of natural resources. In addition, steel buildings are energy efficient with proper insulation, and when they do reach a landfill, the components of a steel building take up about 1/20^th the amount of space as the waste from a demolished traditional building.

Warranty

The high quality of materials used for steel buildings is reflected by the warranties offered by steel building manufacturers – typically up to 50 years in general use.

Steel buildings are often the best choice for nearly any building project. These benefits – and dozens of others – make them the best option for your project, too.