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Kearney, Nebraska — steel buildings

Every building is a thousand connections.Start with yours.

Send us the span and the intended use. We take it from the concrete pad to the last bolt torqued at the ridge.

Close-up of a bolted steel connection with a rust-coloured bolt head
Column-to-rafter connection

01 — Intended use

What the frame has to hold.

The intended use decides the clear span, the door openings and how the frame is braced. It is the first question we ask, and the first thing that shapes the quote.

  1. 01

    Pre-engineered steel shops

    Clear-span shop buildings sized around your equipment, your doors and the way you work in the bay.

  2. 02

    Agricultural barns

    Open or enclosed barns for hay, livestock and equipment, framed for daily use and Nebraska weather.

  3. 03

    Machine sheds

    Deep, open bays with wide clear openings, laid out so tractors, combines and trailers come and go without a shuffle.

  4. 04

    Cold storage buildings

    Insulated envelopes framed for cold storage and controlled temperature, with the panel line set out from the start.

A newly erected clear-span steel shop building on a rural site at dusk
Clear-span shop, framed and sheeted
A long steel machine shed with open bays on a farmstead
Open-bay machine shed
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Rigid frame — typical section, measured at the column line

02 — Span & spec

Give us the span and the use.

Four numbers get a steel building moving. Send them with your quote request and we can talk about the frame instead of guessing at it.

Span / width
Clear width between the columns, in feet.
Length
Overall building length, and how many bays you want.
Eave height
Wall height at the column line — set by your tallest door and your tallest load.
Intended use
Shop, barn, machine shed or cold storage. This drives bracing, insulation and openings.
Concrete pad preparation with edge forms, rebar grid and a gravel base
Edge forms and reinforcement set before the pour

03 — Concrete pad prep

Nothing lands square on a bad pad.

A steel frame is only as true as the concrete under it. Pad prep is part of what we do, so the anchor bolts and base plates line up before a single column is stood.

  • 01Site and pad layout
  • 02Edge forms set to line and grade
  • 03Reinforcement placed and tied
  • 04Pour, screed and finish
  • 05Anchor bolts set for the frame

04 & 05 — Delivery & erection

Delivered, then stood and bolted.

Frame members, purlins and panels arrive on your site, and the building goes up in the order it was engineered to go up.

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Delivery

Steel and sheeting scheduled to your site, staged so the members you need first come off the load first.

05

Erection

Columns set, rafters flown and pinned, purlins and girts run, bracing snugged. The frame is squared before it is skinned, and every connection is gone over again at the end.

Ironworkers guiding a steel rafter into place during erection of a building frame
Rafter set and pinned at the column connection

The final joint

Torque the quote.

Send the size and the use. Tell us where the site is and what the building has to do, and we will take it from there.

  • 01We read your span, length and intended use.
  • 02We come back with questions about the site, access and doors.
  • 03You get a written quote for the building you asked for.

We use your details to prepare your quote and nothing else.