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July 11th, 2011:
Are you looking for a new Steel Building solution?
Whether you are looking to start or expand your business or need more storage space for a workshop or garage, Our Building Method of construction offers a better building solution. When you build a building from Maple Leaf Steel Buildings®, you have complete design flexibility and more efficient and economical construction process so you get the building you want for less time and money spent on construction. Our quality-controlled factory has been in the prefabricated steel building manufacturing business for over four decades. Each building is designed to be customized to the size and style you have requested and is engineered to handle specific wind and snow loads of your metal building location.
June 21st, 2011:
Today we talk about Quonset Style Steel Buildings:
From Wikipedia:
In 1941 the United States Navy needed an all-purpose, lightweight building that could be shipped anywhere and assembled without skilled labor. The George A. Fuller construction company was selected to manufacture them. The first was produced within 60 days of contract award.
The original design was a 16 ft × 36 ft (5 × 11 m) structure framed with steel members with an 8 ft (2.4 m) radius. The sides were corrugated steel sheets. The two ends were covered with plywood, which had doors and windows. The interior was insulated and had pressed wood lining and a wood floor. The building could be placed on concrete, on pilings, or directly on the ground with a wood floor.
As the original design used low grade (non-strategic) steel, a more rust-resistant version was called for. The all-spruce 'Pacific Hut' was created for use in the PTO (Pacific Theater of Operation).
The most common design created a standard size of 20 ft × 48 ft (6 m × 15 m) with 10 ft (3 m) radius, allowing 720 square feet (67 m²) of usable floor space, with optional four-foot (1.2 m) overhangs at each end for protection of entrances from the weather. Other sizes were developed, including 20 ft × 40 ft (6 m × 12 m) and 40 ft × 100 ft (12 m × 30 m) warehouse models.