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Fire consuming a steel self-storage building is unlikely as steel is fire-resistant. Use of surveillance systems assists in adding to the protection of these structures. Finally the protection premiums for your pre-engineered steel building can also be minimized because of the incombustibility of commercial quality steel. Your insurance agent would be delighted to learn that you are going to build your next project out of steel. At Discount Steel Buildings we understand how important your property is—so, our steel buildings are all built with this type of resilient and durable quality. We want the property that you would have stored—either by yourself or your customers—to be protected as if it were our own stuff!

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What’s involved time-wise in a steel building project? Thankfully, steel self-storage assemblies are quick and simple. Pre-fabricated and pre-engineered at the production facility they are then shipped to the jobsite. Pre-welded, pre-punched and pre-drilled helps to reduce labor costs (which when you are using traditional building materials, the costs can be quite substantial.) As soon as the structure is delivered it is able to be promptly assembled. Therefore, there is a considerable advantage to designing and building with pre-engineered steel as your building will be more-than-likely be built on time (and possibly, ahead of schedule). Most builders of self-storage units do so with commercial business purposes in mind. If that is your situation, then the sooner your self-storage units are built, then the sooner you can begin to start seeing a return on your investment by bringing customers to those units and your customers starting to pay rent.

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When assembling self-storage units, the raw material of choice remains with premium quality steel. High winds, heavy snows, and seismic activity show little impact on buildings constructed with premium quality steel. Steel self-storage facilities can be finished with an aluminum blend to allay corrosion. Premium quality steel is an economically viable alternative as it sustains small structural overhead expenses. Where are you going to store your most valuable property? Put it in a place that is strong enough to keep it safe from the threat of theft and protect it from the elements. Yes, they will last a long time and require so little maintenance that you will have more time to invest in your most important business endeavours.

Over the next few weeks, we want to focus on one of the building types that we offer here at Discount Steel Buildings and that application is for Self-Storage Buildings.

Continuing to be widely recognized as the preferred type of building material, steel structures are on the upswing in the construction community. What has led to this popularity that sets steel so far apart from traditional building measures? The answer is simple: affordability and sturdiness. When it comes to the preference of the builders of storage units, the choice is obvious as well: steel. When these structures are built with steel, they are more water-proof than wood and resilient against high-winds and pest attacks. In addition, they require very little maintenance. When customers store their valuables in these units, they can rest assured that their belongings are well protected.

Today, steel buildings are no longer resigned to look like they are made of metal. A warehouse does not have to look like an oversized tin shed. Rather, when you purchase a pre-engineered steel building from Discount Steel Building you have the choice from a variety of materials to give your building the professional look you want that will drive customers in and to keep them coming back. Think of it as your little secret—that your modern looking building has been framed with 26-grade steel, making it very strong and durable!

Production of pre-fabricated steel building systems in the mid-1940s featured the quick erection advantages and inexpensive prices instead of any aesthetics to market the product. The purchasers of these structures were less concerned with the external appearance than what would be stored inside. A regular roof pitch of 4:12 was used with this group in all-steel structure system approach, although its look was very ordinary. The doubtful durability and quality of these early pre-fabricated metal structures planted misgivings in consumers’ minds as these uninviting structures were left to corrode on the landscape of America. Fortunately, a new wave of construction that is very popular and widely accepted highlighted the noticeable advancements in steel structure systems and they are continuously gaining popularity with each passing year.

Great attention to metal building construction began during the Second World War, when airplane hangars were fabricated utilizing metal construction for military use. Recognizable buildings, then known as Quonset huts also came into general use during this period. These structures required only the assistance of a limited labor force and common tools to erect them and because of this; tens of thousands of these buildings were produced. The Quonset hut was singled out for being economical, but unfortunately unattractive in appearance. The armed services acquired these arched rooftop huts for their specific use as barracks and machine shops. When the public got wind of this inexpensive building structure, the farming community began using them as agricultural buildings.

At the beginning of the 20th Century, the use of cars was on the brink of becoming widespread. Steel and metal construction was called upon to construct car garages. These were first produced by the Butler Manufacturing Co. In order to improve on the fire resistant elements of the garage and decrease the costs, total metal assembly soon replaced the original styles that incorporated a blend of metal and wood.

In the initial stages of the 20th Century, the Austin Company started using pre-engineered construction as it is applied to steel framing. The capacity to offer cheap metal driller buildings to oil ventures working in Oklahoma gave prominence to a corporation called Star Building.

We here at Discount Steel Buildings wanted to take time to go over the history of pre-engineered steel buildings. The innovations that have been developed over the last few decades are simply amazing!

The changes in metal and steel buildings have indeed been significant in the past two-hundred years in terms of both cost-efficiency and technology. Metal, as a natural resource for a building material, has become valuable due to its noninflammable characteristics. Use continued into the late 19th century when the very first buildings in the countryside of America were constructed with metal beams and framing. The introduction of the original pre-fabricated metal structures also came about around this time.