The Ultimate Guide to Steel Barns: Design, Features & Benefits for Your Farm

When building a new agricultural structure, most farmers often go for traditional construction with wood, concrete, and other conventional materials. But this often means that they have to spend more money and time on the project and wait a long time before they can use their new building. If you want something more efficient, agri-steel buildings might be the best solution for your farm, whether you’re enhancing your current agribusiness or building a new one.

At Armstrong Steel, we design and engineer prefabricated metal structures according to your farm’s requirements, ensuring a highly productive and functional solution for your business. We have years of experience and expertise in making pre-engineered steel buildings for any application, and we are confident in our ability to meet your specific requirements because we consider your exact specifications, including your budget and available land.

Our agri-steel buildings offer continuous and vast floor space with versatile layouts, column-free interiors, and modular or clear-span framing. These features make them ideal for any application, whether you need a barn for storing equipment, a building to house your hydroponics set-up, or a facility to keep your livestock and crops safe.

Read on for an in-depth look at the design and features of agricultural steel buildings. We will also share how your farm can benefit from these structures.

How we design steel barns

At Armstrong Steel, we make sure to optimize the use of materials in every steel barn to avoid waste. Our team of engineers and building consultants will work with you to design your custom agri-steel buildings in-house, ensuring close monitoring for optimum quality control of every component. We specifically engineer each part of your metal building kit to meet your local building codes and load-bearing standards.

Additionally, this practice prevents excessive material usage and ensures you pay only for the materials used. You cannot get these benefits when building with concrete and lumber, as these traditional materials are often prone to waste, which results in extra costs.

Here are more steps we take to ensure a well-designed steel barn that meets your requirements and budget:

• FramingWe have different framing systems, including clear-span and multi-span steel building solutions that suit any application. Our pre-engineered agri-steel buildings can have a few to zero interior columns for a more flexible layout. This makes your barn suitable for installing lifts and storing oversized equipment and machinery, Plus, it can have large door openings and enough room to create dedicated spaces for an on-site office, staff room, and other necessary areas.

• Tailored guidesAt Armstrong Steel, we guarantee your custom prefabricated steel barn will be quick to assemble and erect as soon as it arrives on your farm. The major bolt-together connections have pre-punched holes, and most components are numbered and already cut. All you need to do is refer to our supplied custom drawings, erection guide, and anchor-bolt patterns to assemble your barn quickly and effortlessly.

• Permit drawingsIn addition to assembly drawings, we provide permit drawings signed by a licensed Armstrong Steel engineer in your area. This should help you secure the necessary permits to erect agri-steel buildings. These documents are prepared and guaranteed by our in-house engineering and drafting teams, ensuring their reliability and authenticity.

Features and benefits of agri steel structures

An Armstrong Steel agri steel building has the following features that can benefit your farm:

• DurableAgri steel buildings won’t easily falter against strong earthquakes, high winds, floods, snowstorms, or hurricanes. Plus, they won’t be destroyed by fire that easily. If they are Armstrong Steel building systems, they will have lengthy warranties to cover the structure, coatings, and roof, ensuring additional peace of mind for you.

• Quick assemblyOur steel building kits are easy and quick to erect. This means you can use your new metal barn sooner and won’t have to worry about high labor costs to assemble and install it on your farm.
• Energy efficientOur agri-steel buildings can support all insulation technologies. Plus, they are more efficient to insulate than wood-frame structures. This can help reduce cooling and heating costs and boost your farm’s energy efficiency.

• CustomizableOur agri steel structures areas can suit various applications. They can be farmhouses, a regular barn, a chicken coops, a tool and equipment shed, a cowshed, a milking shed, stables, or greenhouses.

  Steel buildings can support other materials and interior and exterior finishes, ensuring your structure looks exactly as you imagine it. Also, this ensures your barn won’t look too industrial. Our building consultants will ensure your barn is designed to your exact specifications to meet your unique aesthetic requirements.

• Low-maintenanceWith a steel building system, you won’t have to worry about your agri structures succumbing to the effects of changing weather conditions, moisture damage, and insects. They don’t require excessive and regular upkeep, ensuring minimal maintenance over their lifetime that makes your investment pay itself off.

Need more details?

Learn more about agri-steel buildings from an industry-leading metal building fabricator like us! At Armstrong Steel, we deliver world-class support, high-quality materials, and expert workmanship. Fill out the form here to get a custom quote, or call us at 1-800-345-4610.

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