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Renovating the American White House with the Strength of Steel Recent action-packed movie blockbusters like “Olympus Has Fallen” and “White House Down” made me curious…
How Recent Natural Disasters Affect Steel Building Construction We’ve all watched in awe as natural disasters strike with increasing frequency and violence. Blizzards, hurricanes, floods,…
How a Steel Warehouse Survived the San Francisco Earthquake After spending most of my adult life in the pre-engineered steel building business, I am always…
In the first two “Steel Buildings 101” articles, we discussed primary framing and secondary framing basics. This last article in the series covers endwall framing.…
High-tech advances in design software and steel production have decreased the cost of pre-engineered structural steel framing. Now produced in large-scale factories, prefabrication makes steel…
Learning the Basic Parts of Pre-engineered Steel Buildings Pre-engineered steel frame building kits dominate low-rise agricultural, commercial, industrial, and storage construction in today’s market. Why?…
Lean-To Steel Buildings The framing choices discussed so far in this six-part series are primarily used for construction of new pre-engineered metal buildings. However, the…
Single Slope Steel Buildings RHINO prefabricated steel buildings come in many different framing styles. Each system has its own advantages. The end-use of the structure,…
Modular Span Steel Buildings Part Four of this series on prefabricated steel buildings will cover the three types of modular span framing. You’ll learn the…