Pre-Engineered Metal Buildings
Clearspans with nothing in the way
Steel structures built for open floor space, higher ceilings and lower insurance rates, with wood brought in wherever the design calls for it.
Chapter 01
Immense clearspans with no interior columns
A pre-engineered metal building can span an immense width without a single interior column holding up the roof. That matters the moment you start planning racking, equipment lanes or vehicle traffic inside the building, because nothing in the floor plan has to route around a column grid.
For a warehouse or a manufacturing floor, that open span is often the whole reason the building gets built this way instead of with conventional framing.
Cardinal Construction pre-engineered metal building under construction
Higher ceiling clearance and higher R-values
Steel framing gets you ceiling clearance that conventional stick framing struggles to match at the same cost, which matters for overhead cranes, tall racking or oversized equipment. The insulation systems that go with pre-engineered metal buildings also run to higher R-values than a lot of owners expect from a metal building.
Higher R-value means the heating and cooling load on the building is lower for its entire life, not just on the day it opens.
Noncombustible construction lowers insurance rates
Steel is noncombustible, and insurers price that difference into the policy. A metal building's construction classification typically carries a lower fire-insurance rate than an equivalent wood-framed structure of the same size, which shows up as a real number on the owner's policy every year the building stands.
Metal and wood combined when the design calls for it
A pre-engineered metal building does not have to look like a plain metal box. We combine steel with wood framing and finishes wherever the design calls for more intricacy, an office front, a lobby, an architectural feature facade, while keeping the structural shell steel for the span and the cost.
That mix lets an owner get the clearspan and the insurance benefit of steel without giving up the look they actually want on the parts of the building the public sees.
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