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With Olympia Steel Buildings You Can Have It All

How Olympia Steel Buildings helped one company achieve their dreams.

Case Study: Seger Glass, Easton, MD - Retail and Industrial

Olympia Steel Buildings offers affordable steel buildings that are versatile, fully customizable and can be unique, like this 27,000 sq ft. pre-engineered steel building in Easton, Maryland. When the owners of Seger Glass contacted Olympia, they knew what they wanted, but they weren’t sure they would be able to afford a building that had office and retail space and an industrial area for manufacturing their products all rolled into one, or whether such a building design would be possible to achieve. After looking at all their options, they decided that pre-engineered steel buildings were the only way to go, and with Olympia’s help, they were able to have it all. Olympia’s steel building design technicians, metal buildings estimators and consultants showed them how they could achieve the building they desired while saving up to 50% off the cost of conventional construction. Plus with pre-engineered steel building construction they would have all the clearspan space their growing business would require.

Their new multi-use building is both attractive and functional, showcasing the best of metal buildings design and technology. The building is divided into four distinct areas, featuring a 5,000 sq. ft. retail showroom and including four offices and a lunchroom. Behind the showroom is an industrial space with 30’ ceilings. Nine overhead doors provide easy access for bringing in raw materials and taking out finished goods. Several large cranes were easily accommodated in the building design and make for easy transportation of materials inside the building.

Olympia has helped hundreds of growing businesses like Seger Glass build multi-functional buildings. Olympia understands that your company has specific space requirements and budgetary constraints and will work with you every step of the way to design a building that meets your business requirements.

Whether your need is for a new building or you are expanding your existing facility, Olympia offers steel buildings and metal building systems that are fully customizable with a variety of options including: ceiling lights, windows, doors, building colors and more. You can choose from 12 panel and trim colors available in a variety of color combinations.

Olympia’s steel building design technicians and cost estimators will listen to your requirements and custom design a steel building or metal building system to your exact specifications. From purchase to completion, your Olympia Steel Buildings representative will stay with you throughout your building project.

Green Reasons to Build With Pre-engineered Steel Buildings

Green reasons to build with pre-engineered steel buildings and metal buildings systems for your next building construction project:

• Steel is the most recycled material on the planet
• Steel is sustainable
• Steel is a cost-effective, durable option for building construction
• Steel buildings are a part of all major Green buildings ratings programs and standards programs,  including the National Green Building Standard (ICC-700) for residential buildings, ASHRAE Standard 189.1 for commercial construction, and the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) program.
• Using pre-engineered metal building construction reduces the amount of construction waste at the job site. Any steel construction waste is then recyclable into other steel buildings construction
• Reflective metal roofs on pre-engineered steel buildings keep the inside of metal buildings coolr and can save up to 40% in energy. 
• Because they do not absorb heat as do other roofing materials, reflective metal roofs can also lower urban air temperatures, reducing urban smog.

GSA approved Olympia Steel Buildings, GSA Contract GS-07F-0312V, set themselves apart

GSA approved Olympia Steel Buildings, GSA Contract GS-07F-0312V, set themselves apart by using better materials, better quality control, exceptional customer service and industry-leading warranties. Our prefabricated steel frame buildings come standard with galvanized girts and purlins and extended weather tight PBR roof panels, or you can opt for our patented Zeus-Shield® standing seam metal roofing system.  Olympia pre-engineered steel buildings are precision engineered and expertly erected to give you a “tight” building that reduces air infiltration into the building saving on HVAC costs. We offer 12 energy efficient colors for metal buildings to reduce cooling costs. Our “cool” paint coatings come with a 40-year warranty against chipping, cracking, peeling or blistering. Because of such key features, Olympia pre-engineered steel buildings can qualify under LEED Green Building guidelines with five of six LEED categories applicable to Olympia Steel pre-engineered buildings.

Olympia Steel Buildings® key environmental features:

• Environmentally sustainable
• "Cool" metal roofing
• 70-72% recycled content
• FEMP Energy Efficiency Item - Meets Federal Energy MGMT Program energy efficient levels as required by EO 13123 and 13221.
• Comprehensive Procurement Guidelines (CPG) compliant - Meets/exceeds EPA Recovered Material Advisory Notice (RMAN) standard

Olympia is your number one choice for pre-engineered steel buildings

Olympia Steel Buildings® are supplied by Universal Steel Buildings Corp, an industry leader in pre-engineered steel buildings for over 40 years and sole supplier of Olympia Steel Buildings to commercial, industrial, agricultural, residential, government, military and civilian agencies. Flexible building design, professional engineering, top commercial grade U.S. steel, 25-year warranty protection, over 40 years of experience, and 100% American steel make Olympia your number one choice for pre-engineered steel buildings and metal building systems. As part of Olympia Steel Buildings commitment to quality, the following features and warranties come standard with every Olympia Steel Building:

• AZ55 Galvalume PBR roof sheeting, 26 gauge, 80,000 psi - 25 year rust perforation warranty
• Stainless steel capped fasteners - Lifetime rust warranty
• Siliconized polyester baked-on enamel paint - various colors available -- 40-year warranty
• Purlins, girts, base angles - secondary framing - hot-dipped mill-galvanized coating for long-life rust protection
• No posts, no beams, all clearspan - complete usable space
• Standard at no extra cost: cable X-bracing provides enormous strength for wind protection
• Optional accessories: wall lights, sky lights, insulation, ridge vents, cylindrical vents, gutters and downspouts

Olympia Steel Buildings Wins Texas Building Project

After researching other pre-engineered steel buildings companies, including those local to their area, Ark-La-Tex Services, out of Carthage, Texas, contracted with Universal Steel Buildings Corp. out of Pennsylvania for supply and construction of the new facilities.  

The new construction consists of two large Olympia Steel Buildings pre-engineered metal buildings systems for Ark-La-Tex Services, one 32,000 sf pre-engineered steel building to be used as a warehouse, and the other a 9,000 sf pre-engineered steel building to house office facilities. Construction of the new facilities is slated to begin in May 2011. Universal Steel Buildings Corp., sole supplier of Olympia Steel Buildings will supply and erect the pre-engineered metal Buildings, install the windows, doors and insulation.

 

Compare steel buildings to a wooden pole barn ... steel buildings are cheaper

In the spring of last year, Howard Boarts who owns a Black Angus farm purchased a steel building from Olympia Steel Buildings and contracted with them to have it erected on his property.

 “A snow storm collapsed my feed lot building in February of 2009,” Boarts stated. “I talked to Olympia Steel Buildings and they gave me a great price. I compared the steel building to a wooden pole barn and the steel building was cheaper. It went up in a few days and everything is exactly as I wanted it.” 

The 30 x 120 metal building, sports attractive polar white sheeting and rural red trim and roof with one side completely open. Designed to provide a feeding area and give limited shelter from the elements to Boarts’ Black Angus cattle herd, the open side makes it completely accessible to his cows. Erected on 4’ stem walls to protect it from the livestock, rigid steel beams support the structure as its primary framing coated with an attractive gray oxide primer. The frames are a solid steel plate design and the flanges made from solid steel bar stock. The steel secondary framing of girts and purlins have a zinc galvanized coating applied at the mill and won’t rust, wrap or bend. The steel building’s pitched roof sheds water and snow while gutters and down spouts route the moisture away from the feeding area.

Delivery of the building occurred on May 27^th with building construction taking less than two weeks by a three-man crew from start to finish. Almost a year later, the building functioned perfectly through a very cold, snowy Pennsylvania winter and Mr. Boarts and his cattle are very satisfied customers.

“This steel building is rugged enough to handle the heavy use of the Boarts’ herd as well as hold up under brutal weather conditions. Just what the owner ordered. Mr. Boarts was so pleased with his building that he has referred Olympia to his fellow farmers in Ford City.”