Attached are the photos of my steel building at the Blue Avalanche Ranch in Berryville, VA.

The building went up really easy and it sure is nice. I have received many compliments on the building and the person who put it all together for me was really impressed with the quality of your product. I use the building to bottle pet supplements for a company that I own. If you are interested go to www.vibrantpets.net and you can see the line of products I produce.

Inside the building I have 2 rooms - one for inventory and one for production. I also have an office in the inventory room. The unit is insulated and has heat and air conditioning along with high speed internet. If you would like inside pictures let me know, and I will gladly send them to you.

BTW your staff is great. I received great customer support and your sales people are the best in the business. All in all I really enjoyed my buying experience and everything you said you would do - you did (and some) and everything was on time, which in turn saved me a bunch of time and money. To top all this off, your building was far less expensive than others I researched.

I would recommend you guys and your products to anyone.

Thanks Mucho!

Lee

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In the pipeline

SteelMaster roofing system helps define appearance of drainage district building

By Lisa Rummler

When most people think of government buildings, two images tend to come to mind.

One is that of a windowless, drab building that seems to be made of concrete. The other is decidedly grander: marble pillars, domes that reach for the sky, perhaps a larger-than-life statue or two.

The office building for the Tangipahoa Consolidated Gravity and Drainage District No. 1, Tickfaw, La., doesn’t fit into either of these categories.

Rather, the facility’s appearance is a sort of ode to a seemingly modest but integral component of the district’s work: a steel corrugated drain pipe. Designed by Holly & Smith Architects, Lammond, La., the building received the 2009 Rose Award from the Baton Rouge Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.

According to the Holly & Smith Architects Web site, “On the exterior, a cement board rain screen cladding material is used with exposed fasteners. Internal spaces include a large, high-volume boardroom meeting space on one end with reception, a break room and offices in the remainder. The building uses a quonset-type roof structure typically used for barns and machine shop applications.”

Looking up and around

The Tangipahoa Consolidated Gravity and Drainage District No. 1 office building was constructed from the roofing system product line from SteelMaster Buildings LLC, Virginia Beach, Va.

Several features, including the structure’s arches and internal trim, used 22-gauge (grade-80) steel. This material was also used for the triangular closure panels that go under each arch at the point where it connects to the bent connector, which was made of 14-gauge (grade-50) steel.

Additionally, the rounded, corrugated internal ceiling and liner panel used 26-gauge (grade-80) steel, as well as stainless steel tek, or self-drilling, screws. The building’s notched angle, which bolts to the curved beams and receives the ceiling panels, is made of 20-gauge (grade-80) steel.

The curved track–the internal radius trim that attaches to the underside of the arches and receives the 10-in.-thick baton insulation–is also made of 20-gauge (80-grade) steel. This track also provides a transition to which the ceiling panel can secure itself.

The building’s gutters, downspouts and external trim consist of a mix of 22-gauge and 24-gauge steel, and the entire gutter system uses stainless steel tek screws.

For its portion of the Tangipahoa Consolidated Gravity and Drainage District No. 1 office building, SteelMaster used AZ180 Galvalume Plus steel. FFJ

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In the pipeline

SteelMaster roofing system helps define appearance of drainage district building

By Lisa Rummler

When most people think of government buildings, two images tend to come to mind.

One is that of a windowless, drab building that seems to be made of concrete. The other is decidedly grander: marble pillars, domes that reach for the sky, perhaps a larger-than-life statue or two.

The office building for the Tangipahoa Consolidated Gravity and Drainage District No. 1, Tickfaw, La., doesn’t fit into either of these categories.

Rather, the facility’s appearance is a sort of ode to a seemingly modest but integral component of the district’s work: a steel corrugated drain pipe. Designed by Holly & Smith Architects, Lammond, La., the building received the 2009 Rose Award from the Baton Rouge Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.

According to the Holly & Smith Architects Web site, “On the exterior, a cement board rain screen cladding material is used with exposed fasteners. Internal spaces include a large, high-volume boardroom meeting space on one end with reception, a break room and offices in the remainder. The building uses a quonset-type roof structure typically used for barns and machine shop applications.”

Looking up and around

The Tangipahoa Consolidated Gravity and Drainage District No. 1 office building was constructed from the roofing system product line from SteelMaster Buildings LLC, Virginia Beach, Va.

Several features, including the structure’s arches and internal trim, used 22-gauge (grade-80) steel. This material was also used for the triangular closure panels that go under each arch at the point where it connects to the bent connector, which was made of 14-gauge (grade-50) steel.

Additionally, the rounded, corrugated internal ceiling and liner panel used 26-gauge (grade-80) steel, as well as stainless steel tek, or self-drilling, screws. The building’s notched angle, which bolts to the curved beams and receives the ceiling panels, is made of 20-gauge (grade-80) steel.

The curved track–the internal radius trim that attaches to the underside of the arches and receives the 10-in.-thick baton insulation–is also made of 20-gauge (80-grade) steel. This track also provides a transition to which the ceiling panel can secure itself.

The building’s gutters, downspouts and external trim consist of a mix of 22-gauge and 24-gauge steel, and the entire gutter system uses stainless steel tek screws.

For its portion of the Tangipahoa Consolidated Gravity and Drainage District No. 1 office building, SteelMaster used AZ180 Galvalume Plus steel. FFJ

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Here are two photos of my SteelMaster building. The first (before) was after a tree came crashing down on the building, mind you my ‘52 Chevy Truck and ‘41 Buick did not get a scratch on [them]. The second (after) is clearly the Heavens shining down on the rebuild…and what a great product it is, only about 30% of the structure actually needed to be replaced. It was truly amazing how well the building withstood the impact of what was no small tree. The insurance adjuster was convinced that a stick built would have been a pile of wood.

Thank you

Steve J.

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Award-Winning Architect ‘Steels’ Away to a Fictional Time and Place 

Lewis Wadsworth lives in a fantasy world, complete with a Quonset-style house that sits on pilings and is framed by steel arches and windows made of acrylic arena-spectator shielding. He built it strong and sure, for it is the place where he will take his final bow, or as he puts it, “…this is the house where I wait for the world to come to an end.”

 He is alone, self sequestered on a forbidding stretch of a lifeless land in the Antarctic called Deception Island. “The whole of existence is generally recognized as a deception; so let me witness it being swept away from the vantage of an island named in honor of the great untruth, “ writes Wadsworth. “This is where I will make the last voyeuristic stand against oblivion in the appropriate architectural vessel and prepare to watch something that might be a storm (but could be any fashionable version of apocalypse, personal or universal) sweep in from the sea.”

Wadsworth isn’t crazy; in fact, he is a forward-thinking, award-winning architect. His essay, which documents an end-of-the-world scenario and features word pictures and drawings of his metal arch building, was selected for inclusion in AIArchitect’s Second Fantasy Architecture Theme Issue, which ran in August 2008. AIArchitect is a publication of The American Institute of Architects, a leading professional membership association for licensed architects, emerging professionals, and allied partners.

More recently, the same project won the Boston Society of Architect’s Unbuilt Architecture Award for 2009, which called for entries of unbuilt architectural designs of any project type, including purely theoretical projects and unbuilt client-sponsored projects. His design will also be discussed on November 19 at Build Boston, the largest regional convention and tradeshow for the design and construction industry.

“The idea for this sort building was something I had been playing with for a while—I had proposed a little elevated boathouse or waterfront structure with a Quonset-style “look” when I was an architecture graduate student at Yale in 2001,” says Wadsworth. “In spring of 2008 I resurrected that idea to illustrate some design and presentation ideas for a class I was teaching at The Boston Architectural College, but I hadn’t made a firm decision on how such a building might actually be put together.”

Inspiration struck as Wadsworth walked the trade show floor at the 2008 AIA National Convention where he happened upon the SteelMaster booth. SteelMaster Buildings, based in Virginia Beach, VA, manufactures arch buildings made of steel and metal as well as prefabricated metal and steel building kits designed for a broad range of residential and commercial applications including garages, workshops, carports, agricultural storage, metal barns, Quonsets, airplane hangars, RV storage, roofing systems, storage buildings, military buildings, government buildings, commercial warehousing, metal sheds, and industrial storage. 

“They had some small assembled samples of their arch material and of course quite a lot of documentation,” says Wadsworth. “I immediately understood how the system could be applied to my little idealized building, both as a structural system and as a purely “formal” way of adding some visual interest (through the pronounced corrugation of the sheet metal) to the exterior. Coincidentally, the AIA newsletter put out a call for entries for its second fantasy architecture issue about that time, so I decided to develop my idea using the SteelMaster product information I had picked up at the convention and enter it into the competition.”

By Brenda H. Welch, a freelance writer and editor living in Hampton Roads, VA.

Click here to ready Wadsworth’s essay.

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He is alone, self sequestered on a forbidding stretch of a lifeless land in the Antarctic called Deception Island.  “The whole of existence is generally recognized as a deception; so let me witness it being swept away from the vantage of an island named in honor of the great untruth, “ writes Wadsworth. “This is where I will make the last voyeuristic stand against oblivion in the appropriate architectural vessel and prepare to watch something that might be a storm (but could be any fashionable version of apocalypse, personal or universal) sweep in from the sea.”

Wadsworth isn’t crazy; in fact, he is a forward-thinking, award-winning architect. His essay, which documents an end-of-the-world scenario and features word pictures and drawings of his metal arch building, was selected for inclusion in AIArchitect’s Second Fantasy Architecture Theme Issue, which ran in August 2008. AIArchitect is a publication of The American Institute of Architects, a leading professional membership association for licensed architects, emerging professionals, and allied partners.

More recently, the same project won the Boston Society of Architect’s Unbuilt Architecture Award for 2009, which called for entries of unbuilt architectural designs of any project type, including purely theoretical projects and unbuilt client-sponsored projects.  His design will also be discussed on November 19 at Build Boston, the largest regional convention and tradeshow for the design and construction industry.

“The idea for this sort building was something I had been playing with for a while—I  had proposed a little elevated boathouse or waterfront structure with a Quonset-style “look” when I was an architecture graduate student at Yale in 2001,” says Wadsworth. “In spring of 2008 I resurrected that idea to illustrate some design and presentation ideas for a class I was teaching at The Boston Architectural College, but I hadn’t made a firm decision on how such a building might actually be put together.”

Inspiration struck as Wadsworth walked the trade show floor at the 2008 AIA National Convention where he happened upon the SteelMaster booth. SteelMaster Buildings, based in Virginia Beach, VA, manufactures arch buildings made of steel and metal as well as prefabricated metal and steel building kits designed for a broad range of residential and commercial applications including garages, workshops, carports, agricultural storage, metal barns, Quonsets, airplane hangars, RV storage, roofing systems, storage buildings, military buildings, government buildings, commercial warehousing, metal sheds, and industrial storage.

“They had some small assembled samples of their arch material and of course quite a lot of documentation,” says Wadsworth. “I immediately understood how the system could be applied to my little idealized building, both as a structural system and as a purely “formal” way of adding some visual interest (through the pronounced corrugation of the sheet metal) to the exterior. Coincidentally, the AIA newsletter put out a call for entries for its second fantasy architecture issue about that time, so I decided to develop my idea using the SteelMaster product information I had picked up at the convention and enter it into the competition.”

By Brenda H. Welch, a freelance writer and editor living in Hampton Roads, VA.

Click here to ready Wadsworth’s essay.

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We had everything from super scary to ridiculously funny, but here are our two winners.

First Place: “Father Swaf”

Runner-Up: “Scream Queen”

We also had a Halloween trick for one lucky member of our team…

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