by Donna Milner
Assembled like a
big erector set,
metal buildings
offer residential
builders an easy
inroad to
commercial
construction
METAL
BUILDING
BASICS
JLC - APRIL 1989
The thought of cold-rolled steel construction
may not warm your heart, but
it might pay to consider it as an alternative
to wood-frame, residential
building. After all, how many really
good clients have you had in the last
two years? And how many bad ones,
where the last payment was held up
because of a nail pop? With metal
buildings, you won't have nail pops;
you will have clients who want a lot of
space in a hurry and are willing to pay
for it.
Pre-Engineered Metal Building
Types
There are two basic types of pre-engineered
metal building: the rigid-frame
building, and the