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Metal Building Colors & Features
Our business is saving you money on metal buildings and steel buildings. We will help you find the metal building or steel building that you need and save you money at the same time. Below is information about the various features and colors that we can offer with metal buildings.

Feature - Framed Openings


Wall openings big enough for vehicles, heavy equipment, and other large items to pass through require their own sub frames or "framed openings." Almost every steel building or metal building has at least one, and most have several framed openings, usually outfitted with some type of overhead door. Many companies only offer "field located" framed openings, which the builder must measure and cut into the frame on the job site with no plans as a guide. Some will also offer detailed plans. We'll help you find a building with your preferred style of assembly approach.

Feature - Standard Bracing


Every building faces constant stress from forces like torsion, shear, compression, and lift. To counteract this pressure, metal buildings employ one or more forms of bracing. Flange bracing is standard on all metal buildings. It consists of structural angles connected between the rafters and purlins to prevent the rafters rolling from side to side under a load. Diaphragm bracing is created by the wall and roof paneling. When attached to the frame, the panels act like a membrane or "diaphragm" stretched over the building, pulling it together.

Feature - Additional Bracing


For most buildings under 65' wide, the diaphragm action provides all the bracing that is needed, but when high winds, heavy snow loads, or even a large number of openings creates extra stress a building may require one of the following types of additional reinforcement. X bracing employs steel rods or cables to tightly connect various parts of the frame. Weak axis bending increases the size of the main-frame base plates to prevent columns from twisting under heavy stress. A wind column is an additional vertical member which reinforces a column. A portal frame or wind-bent column is a sub-frame consisting of two portal columns and a portal rafter placed between the two adjacent main-frame columns in a bay. Portal frames are fairly expensive and only necessary in extreme circumstances.

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