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Olympia Steel Buildings Set Themselves Apart

Olympia Steel Buildings come with our outstanding weather-resistant PBR roof, or you can opt for our patented Zeus-Shield® standing seam metal roofing system. GSA approved Olympia Steel Buildings® set themselves apart by using better materials, better quality control, exceptional customer service and industry-leading warranties:

• 25-year warranty on the roof - AZ55 Galvalume® - 26 gauge, 80,000 psi
• 40-year warranty on the paint - various colors available
• 50-year warranty on the structural steel frames

Olympia Announces Turnkey Steel Buildings Construction Package

"If you need to build, I want to introduce you to the strength and savings of pre-engineered steel buildings ," says Arnold Davis, President of Olympia Steel Buildings. I will show you how to save up to 50% off the cost of conventional construction and save time and money with any building project. My team will work with you every step of the way to ensure your building project comes in on time and on budget every time."  

Olympia Steel Buildings Complete Turnkey Construction Services handles it all. Olympia designs, engineer and supply pre-engineered steel buildings and metal buildings systems to your exact specifications and local building code requirements. They develop the project around your building requirements and work with you to design and build a facility to fit your building needs and business plan with complete design work and provision for future expansion. Olympia Steel Buildings Construction Services not only prepares the foundation, they erect the steel building and install all mechanical systems; finish the buildings interior, install drywall, flooring and fixtures, and complete all interior painting. Olympia can even provide optional landscaping services. With Olympia Steel Buildings' complete turnkey construction services, you get the job done on time and on budget every time.

Steel Buildings Manufacture

The manufacture of steel buildings rafters and columns begins with the Plasma Table. The Plasma Table cuts the web, the center of the rafter or column (like the center of the letter “H”). The web moves to a holding station waiting to move by automated conveyor to the station where the web will be tack-welded to the flange

The flange machine cuts flanges into specified lengths determined by the pre-engineered metal buildings specifications from steel bar stock. After cutting, the flanges move to a holding station waiting to move by automated conveyor to the station where the flanges will be tack-welded to the web prior to going through the automatic welding machine.

Certified welders tack-weld flanges and webs in place to form rafters and columns. The tacked rafters and columns move by conveyor to the PHI machine. At the PHI machine, an automatic welding process fuses the web and flange materials, permanently welding the flanges to the web. A Welding Inspector checks all welds to ensure that strict AISC standards are met.

At The Steel Building Factory

At the steel building factory, the order entry department oversees the order from start to finish, from the time the order is received until the steel building is shipped. Steel building factory staff verifies all design codes, snow and wind loads and seismic information to make sure that everything complies with the purchaser’s contract and enters the order into scheduling software to ensure that the steel buildings manufacture is efficiently managed.

Pre-engineered steel buildings engineers are responsible for optimization of the steel building, each engineer certified by the state where the building will be constructed. Building details including snow and wind loads and seismic information is input into an advanced metal building software program that generates engineered shop drawings for the framing of the building as well as other drawings needed for the buildings manufacture and construction.

The metal buildings factory’s pre-engineered steel building engineers review the building drawings and check the purchase order again for accuracy. Permit drawings are generated that can be used to help secure permits to erect the building.

How Steel buildings Are Manufactured

Have you ever wondered how steel buildings are manufactured? The process is both complicated and precise. The manufacture of steel buildings and metal building systems is an awesome combination of engineering, draftsmanship, ingenuity, teamwork, knowhow and metal building manufacture expertise. Each building receives the utmost care and attention throughout the manufacturing process, manufactured by experienced craftsmen and watched over by a dedicated staff of professionals from start to finish. Precision engineering, machinery and components plus exceptional quality control yield a precision high quality manufactured product.

Once a customer has purchased a pre-engineered steel building or metal building system, their sales person, who performs multiple functions of building consultant, building designer, technician and estimator, forwards the purchaser’s order to the steel building factory. In the top steel building factories, the steel building factory itself fabricates all required building components in house. That way, all components are compatible and go together easily on the job site with no surprises and no waiting for components to arrive from different suppliers.

Steel Buildings For Earthquake Relief

Could pre-engineered steel building construction have saved lives in the recent Haitian earthquake disaster?

"Most of the buildings that collapsed and buried people were made of heavy substandard concrete or cinder blocks with no lateral supports and supporting columns that were too small in diameter," the Maimi Herald quoted engineer, Eduardo Fierro, who is an expert in post-earthquake fieldwork. He went on to remark that columns were formed of substandard steel, and that the Haitian government has no building codes and no enforcement of building design. "... it was a disaster caused by the construction industry in Haiti who didn't know anything about building codes," said Ferro.

Olympia's pre-engineered steel buildings are engineered to satisfy the siesmic (earthquake), codes of the area where they will be erected. These local engineering and building codes are designed to allow metal buildings to withstand the forces that an earthquake would generate and the stresses impacting steel structures under certain seismic conditions. Olympia has the know how and experience to engineer their pre-engineered steel buildings so that the entire structural steel system works to resist the forces subjected by seismic events so that the building will remain standing and sound, while other structures may fail and collapse.

Steel building owners in seismic areas should feel safe and secure knowing they have the protection of a pre-engineered Olympia Steel building to rely on.