Steel Buildings use “cool” coating paints for roofs and side panels in a wide variety of environmentally friendly metal building colors. “Cool” coatings are special paints with superior reflective qualities that act as a thermal barrier to keep the insides of steel buildings cool in summer. This saves energy in cooling costs and helps save the environment by lessening the urban “heat island” effect. An “urban heat island” happens when urban concrete and asphalt construction absorbs heat during the day then radiates it back at night so that temperatures don’t fall at night as they normally would, and is a powerful contributor to climate change and global warming.
Steel buildings coated with “cool” coatings use less energy, summer and winter, making such metal buildings more energy efficient. “Cool” metal building coatings not only reflect heat in summer, but also retain heat inside the building on cool days, saving on heating costs and keeping the indoor environment healthy and comfortable in both summer and winter. The use of “cool” coatings for steel buildings saves money and the environment through reduced energy costs and can even qualify for Federal tax credits.
In California, Texas and Florida, commercial building construction is taking advantage of the “cool” properties of steel building metal roofs for commercial buildings such as warehouses, industrial manufacturing plants, aircraft hangars, storage buildings, retail outlet stores, auto dealerships, strip malls and more.


Raising a new horse barn can be a tremendous task. Many questions arise when designing a horse barn kit such as implementing a way to expand the barn with more horse stalls or storage space, cost of the barn and how will it be erected. That is why Olympia
Olympia steel building horse riding arenas come with prefabricated components for easy do it yourself erecting to save you time and money. We have helped hundreds of equestrian enthusiasts build the indoor horse riding arena of their dreams.

