Five Things You Probably Don’t Know About Steel Buildings

Steel buildings have become very popular options for people who want to add storage buildings, garages, barns, home offices and other enclosed spaces to their property. They’re affordable, easy to build and very versatile. A metal building can be the ideal solution to many different needs. They make great home workshops, can be insulated for use as animal shelters or outfitted to garage anything from an ATV to an airplane. Despite their popularity, many people believe a lot of myths and misinformation about metal buildings. Some of them have some basis in fact. Others are completely out of left field. Here are five things you probably don’t know about steel buildings.
Steel Buildings Are the Green Choice
The one fact that is most likely to surprise people about metal buildings is that they are an eco-friendly choice for new construction. Most people find it hard to reconcile nature and buildings made of steel, but it’s a fact that steel buildings are generally considered a green choice for a number of reasons.

• Most metal buildings contain a high percentage of recycled steel so they’re using a minimum of non-renewable resources.
• Because steel building components are fabricated at the factory, they’re generally delivered all at once to the building site. That greatly reduces the carbon footprint required to transport materials for a new building.
• They’re very easy to insulate, which makes the exceptionally energy efficient.
• They can be outfitted with green roofs and skylights to make them even more energy efficient.

Metal Buildings Come in Many Colors
Forget the ugly steel gray and dull blue or green steel buildings you’ve seen on the side of the road. Today’s steel buildings come in a wide range of colors. Most manufacturers offer standard colors that match the most common house colors on the market and many will customize a color for you.
A Steel Building Can Stand Up to a Hurricane
Or a blizzard or even an earthquake. Steel buildings are engineered to meet all the safety codes and standards of the region where they’ll be built, and those standards are designed to make buildings safe in the most common extreme weather and environmental conditions of that region.
People Live in Steel Buildings
The newest metal buildings are practically indistinguishable from other types of construction, but they’re much quicker and cheaper to build. Many people are opting to base their homes on standard metal buildings.
The Interior is Unobstructed
Perhaps the best part of choosing a steel building for just about any purpose is their versatility. The biggest factor in that versatility is the fact that most steel buildings require no interior support columns or posts, leaving the interior space wide open and completely unobstructed. That allows the builders to customize the interior to their own liking without restrictions.
If you still think of steel buildings as hulking, ugly behemoths cluttering up the landscape, it’s time you took another look. You just might be surprised at what you see.