Disclaimer: Today’s construction prices vary significantly due to supply chain issues and consumer demand associated with current events. Therefore, please use the following building cost information as a general guide for pricing red steel metal buildings.
Pre-engineered red iron buildings gained popularity in the 1950s to construct large commercial facilities that required wide-open storage space. Prefabricated red iron steel buildings, like Allied Steel building kits, can be used for various purposes: storage, agricultural, retail, equestrian arenas, warehouses, factories, and more.
Fast and straightforward red iron building kits save nearly 5 percent on labor and material costs. In addition, red steel buildings create clear-span structures with no interior columns.
What is a Red Iron Steel Building?
Red metal buildings or red iron barns use heavy steel beams that allow for clear-span construction. The beams provide exceptional strength to support the building’s weight and manage the loads.Therefore, red iron metal buildings do not need interior columns, but they still require either a series of concrete footers or a concrete slab.
14 Benefits of Red Iron Steel Buildings
Iron steel building kits offer many benefits that make them superior when building large spaces for storage, warehousing, manufacturing, and more. Allied Steel Building kits provide design flexibility, solid structural integrity, financial advantages, and eco-friendly features. We strongly recommend you get in touch with the building experts at Allied Steel to help you design a red iron steel building that fits all your needs.
Design Benefits of Red Iron Steel Buildings
1. Clear Span Construction
Clear Span Allied Steel buildings allow builders and architects to create expansive, enclosed, obstruction-free space with no interior columns (up to 300 feet). The clear span frame style lets users move machinery or rearrange floor plans without limitation, providing an ideal choice for warehouses, agricultural storage, factories, and more.
2. Unlimited Size Option
The framing dimensions for Allied Steel Buildings provides architects and builders near-unlimited width, length, and height options, suitable for single and multi-story buildings, as well as mezzanines.
- WIDTHS: 10’ to 300’ or more of unobstructed space with a clear span design; up to 600’ and wider possible, with minimal interior columns
- HEIGHTS: 8’ to 60’ and more
- LENGTHS: Limitless
3. Limitless Accessories
Allied Steel has many accessories for your steel building, including insulation, doors, windows, gray coat primer, canopies, overhangs, galvanized framing, skylights, transmitting panels, ventilation systems, partition walls, and more. Everything you need to build a steel building to your needs and specification is in one convenient place!
Structural Advantages of Red Iron Steel Buildings
4. Strength
The sheer strength of steel can support greater loads and provides more efficient use of materials than wood construction.
- Some Allied Steel models resist severe weather, standing up to 180 mph and snow loads of 120 lbs. ft2.
- The ductility and strength of steel buildings will absorb seismic forces without adverse effects, like collapsing.
5. Dimensionally Stable
Steel doesn’t expand or contract when it gets wet, allowing it to maintain its original measures over time, unlike wood. Furthermore, steel doesn’t warp or split or crack like wood. Moisture-resistant steel also stops the growth of unhealthy and structurally damaging mold.
6. Pest and Mold Proof
Termites, mold, and rodents pose no threat to Red Iron Steel Buildings, unlike wood.
7. Fire-Resistant
Non-combustible steel will not burn like pole barns or other wood-framed structures. Steel offers more protection against fire than wood, but it can still melt under extreme heat.
Financial Benefits of Red Iron Steel Buildings
8. Low Maintenance
The strength and integrity of a well-maintained metal building will resist moisture, pests, and natural disasters.
9. Affordable
Readily available, iron steel is an affordable building solution for constructing warehouses, manufacturing plants, distribution centers, and more. The larger the steel building, the greater the savings. Moreover, the recent rise and volatility of the cost of lumber makes steel a more economical choice for building materials.
It costs between $12 to $19 per ft2 to construct a steel building, while a wood-frame building costs $24 to $43 per ft2 to build. Steel frame construction costs significantly less than wood-frame construction, partially due to fewer warranty call-backs, since steel does not split, shrink, or warp, which can lead to nail pops or drywall cracks.
10. Time-Saving Construction
The components inAllied Steel prefabricated red iron building packages arrive pre-cut and pre-measured at the job site, allowing for quicker and simpler construction with less labor and minimal waste. Steel buildings typically have a shorter lead time for construction, compared to wood. Builders can quickly assemble the building kits with just a couple of basic construction tools. However, due to the heavy weight of red iron, larger buildings may require more expertise and more extensive equipment.
11. Long Life Span
Allied Steel Buildings maintain their integrity for their lifespan because they resist common causes of deterioration (moisture, mold, termites) and effectively withstand natural disasters (hurricanes, tornados, earthquakes) better than wood-framed greenhouses. Some Allied Steel models can resist winds of 180 mph and snow loads of 120 lbs. per ft2, protecting your crops and saving on costly repairs.
12. Lower Insurance Costs
Insurance companies often base a building’s premiums on the structure’s resistance to damage. Allied Steel Buildings’ moisture, disaster, and pest resistance can reduce insurance rates by 30 to 40 percent compared to wood-framed buildings.
Eco-Friendly Allied Steel Red Iron Buildings
13. 100-Percent Recyclable
Hundred-percent recyclable steel does not degrade over time. Allied Steel Buildings are made with 90-percent recycled content, significantly reducing your ecological carbon footprint.
14. Limit Landfill Waste
Pre-engineered, durable steel frames last longer and create less waste than traditional building methods – reducing the use of natural resources and landfill space. The construction of a red iron Allied Steel Building generates zero waste.
Enjoy All the Benefits of Red Iron with Allied Steel Buildings
Pre-engineered Allied Red Iron Steel Buildings offer an affordable, flexible, robust, and eco-friendly method for building large, clear-span structures for warehousing, manufacturing, recreation, and more. Long-lasting and durable, red iron steel buildings will save you money during and after construction. Allied Steel Building kits give you all the design flexibility you need to meet the needs of your building projects.
Get in touch with Allied Steel professionals today, for more on the benefits of a red iron steel building.