Steel Buildings Purchase Guide To Avoid mistakes | Oriental PEB

We set up together with a list of some of the most common mistakes we see metal building owners make during the pre-construction. Steel Buildings purchase Guide helps buyers to avoid mistakes.common mistakes are listed below

Taking Delivery of a Steel Building Before the Proper Permits

Once the building is being fabricated, you’re going to end up paying for it regardless of whether you’re legally able to construct it on your property. This is a very important process not budgeting appropriately

Buying from a Company Without an Engineering Department

Metal buildings are engineered structures. This means that these structures are engineered to withstand the most extreme forces they will experience due to severe weather — such as wind and snow load.

Not Hiring the Same Company to Do the Whole Job

This mistake costs the clients more money than any other mistake.  You can hire SOLID to do any or all parts of your project. When you contact different companies to do different parts of the job, you are asking for trouble. Additionally, they could subcontract out parts of their job to people even less familiar with the overall goal/plan/vision. This plays out often with the location of the anchor bolts. The “concrete guy” says they’re in the right position, but the plans say otherwise. Often a customer is stuck paying someone else to come to fix the location of the anchor bolts. Champion Buildings is a full-service company that handles the engineered plans, ordering/delivering of the pre-fabricated building, foundation, and constructing the building.

Buying the Wrong Type of Building

It's easy to determine which type of metal building you need for your purpose like residential, commercial, industrial, agricultural, etc. Once you choose a general building type, however, things can get convoluted pretty quick because there are all kinds of decisions to make within each category. Below Questions  help you sort out both your short-term and long-term needs:

How big does your building need to be now?

Do you plan on expanding your building in the future?

Will anyone be living in the building now or in the future?

Should you insulate the building?

Would I ever want to add a second story?

Take the answers to these questions to your project's architect and the steel building manufacturer, both of whom can help you design just the right building for your needs. 

Choosing the wrong building site. 

The long-term activity and functionality of your steel building are largely determined by where it is constructed. If it's exposed to harsh prevailing winds or southern/western exposure, you may encounter challenges around interior comfort, reasonable annual utility costs or wear-and-tear on exterior parts. If water drainage is an issue, your building could suffer serious problems with the foundation or moisture damage down the road. Try to construct your building on a site that makes sense for year-round comfort and energy efficiency, and to keep your building's maintenance requirements as low as possible. Your architect or design team can help with this step.

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