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Steel Buildings For Gymnasiums & Sport Arenas

Jewart’s Gymnastics, a recreation center in the North Hills of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania was experiencing growing pains and knew they needed to expand their facility if their business was to continue to grow. They needed more than just space; they required a large column-free area for gymnastic equipment, rings, mats, basketball hoops and court area, balance beams, uneven bars and the like to accommodate a gymnastics training, practice and competition space that would be both attractive and affordable.

“They found Olympia Steel Buildings on the web and liked what they saw,” stated Arnold Davis, President of Universal Steel Buildings Corp., sole supplier of Olympia Steel Buildings. “Because the building site required a design for new athletic facilities that expanded on existing construction, we were able to provide a custom steel building that was perfect for their needs,” explained Davis. “Olympia’s pre-engineered metal buildings designers and consultants engineered and supplied a custom pre-engineered steel building for Jewart’s Gymnastics that was completely clear-span and afforded tons of practice space for trampoline, parallel bars, uneven bars, balance beam, rings and everything.”

The new space provides locker rooms, restroom facilities, equipment storage and practice space with multiple stations designed for a variety of athletic activities. Olympia Steel Buildings recreational buildings, athletic facilities and sports arenas provide 100% clear span interiors in widths up to 300 feet and unlimited lengths. These buildings easily accommodate gymnasiums, event centers, sports arenas, hockey skating rinks, indoor driving ranges, indoor tennis courts and paintball arenas – any type of facility needing column-free interiors, high ceilings and design flexibility.

Olympia Steel Buildings Offers Turnkey Construction Packages

 At Olympia Steel Buildings, the customer comes first. You can trust our more than 40 years of metal building design, engineering and construction experience to design, engineer and supply the building and provide construction services. Our full turnkey package includes building design, supply of pre-engineered steel buildings, and management and construction of the building or buildings, with all phases of project development and metal building construction, including foundation, insulation, heating, air conditioning, plumbing and electrical, sheet rock, painting, doors and windows, handled by an experienced team of steel building construction specialists.

Olympia Steel Buildings Construction Services help you get the job done on time and on budget every time. We develop the project around your building requirements and work with you to design, supply and build a facility to fit your building needs and business plan with complete design work and provision for future expansion.

• We prepare the foundation, put up the building, install windows, doors, gutters and downs, and install optional insulation packages. If you already have your foundation prepared, no problem – we put up the building on your prepared foundation. 
• With our mechanical systems option, we install all mechanical systems, including plumbing, electrical, heating, air-conditioning, and ventilation.
• With Olympia’s complete turnkey service package, we not only prepare the foundation, put up the building and install all mechanical systems, we finish the building interior, install drywall, flooring and fixtures and complete all interior painting. We can even provide optional landscaping services.

 

Olympia Steel Buildings Zeus-Shield Standing Seam Metal Roof

The Zeus-Shield® Architectural Standing Seam Roof System is a heavy-duty architectural or functional standing seam metal roof for covering pre-engineered steel buildings, metal building systems and other types of buildings where architectural appearance, water resistance, expansion/contraction and insulation efficiency are of prime importance.

Zeus-Shield’s Architectural Roof System for steel buildings and metal building systems is designed to be water resistant and have a long life expectancy when properly specified by a qualified metal buildings designer who is aware of the conditions normal to industrial buildings and commercial building roof installations. The steel buildings designer will analyze the requirements of the specific building being covered with the Architectural Roof System to determine if the features and limitations of the system will be compatible with the design requirements of the specific building.

The Architectural Roof System is intended primarily for architecturally driven commercial steel buildings with steeper single or double sloped rectangular roof areas. Architectural roofs can be applied to more complex roof configurations with proper consideration given to the potential for increased material and labor cost and potential erection problems resulting from the complexity of the parts and their installation.

The Architectural standing seam metal roof panel is better suited for special roof details than the Trapezoidal standing seam roof panel because it is an easier metal panel to seal and make weather tight at the ends or at slope and bevel cuts.

More complex roof configurations and non-rectangular configurations such as beveled eaves, beveled gables, hips and valleys, are designed similar to their rectangular counterparts with the exception of the transitions which require field cutting of the panel and special factory or field-fabricated flashing parts.  The Architectural Roof System is not recommended for arched roofs.

Changes in roof pitch require a transition joint or ridge between the different pitched roof sections. The transition joint may require provisions for expansion and contraction of one or both roof planes. The designer may be required to provide special secondary structurals to accommodate fixing the roof panels at locations other than the eave. Panels that run “over the eave” onto a mansard will require rib clips or covers.

Ask your Olympia Steel Buildings pre-engineered metal building designer for more information about Zeus-Shield® standing seam metal roof systems. See how a Zeus Shield standing seam metal roof can add value to your steel building construction.