Pricing Steel Buildings
After researching steel buildings, and deciding you’re in the market for one, after you’ve decided its use, where it will be situated and other important details like that, you’re going to want to know what the structure is likely to cost you. Seems like a reasonable question. And here’s the reasonable answer: It depends!
Price Your Building
Pricing a steel building is part craft, part art. It’s good for you to have a grasp for how it’s done. In this article, let us describe the variables that go into pricing your building so you can get a feel for what’s involved.
1. Building Design
Put simply, the design of your building determines the amount of work involved and the amount of steel required. As you would expect, simple, small lightweight buildings requiring no special structural engineering will cost less than larger, heavy-duty building projects that might, for example, have to withstand very strong winds or ground movement. Whereas labor costs don’t vary too much, steel prices do – as mentioned below.200937-The-Creemore-Hills-Winery-40x60-Commercial-Yellow-Creemore-ON-Canada-2
Here Are The Main Design Considerations That Affect The Size, Design And Cost Of Your New Steel Building:
Wind load: different places have different wind ratings. So as you might expect, Florida – a state buffeted by very high winds and hurricanes – has a higher wind-rating than calmer Tennessee.
Dimensions: (width, height, roof pitch, length) – these variables affect the amount of steel required in different ways. Increasing the width of your structure, for example, affects price more than increasing the length of the structure.
White Steel Building in snowSnow load: the load rating for snow is going to be higher in snowy Alaska than it is in balmy Houston. The stronger structure – which means additional steel – required in Alaska to safely hold that snow makes the building more expensive than a similar one constructed for, say, Houston.
Open Areas: leaving a side of the structure open to the elements means the roof has not got the same protection against up-drafts that it would have if the structure were a closed one. The increased wind load required translates into a costlier building.
Seismic Conditions: seismic ratings vary as you would expect according to the amount of seismic activity in your area. In areas where seismic activity exists ratings are high – as are the resulting building material costs.
As important as these may be, they aren’t the only factors affecting the design of the structure… Read through our steel building buyer’s guide to learn more about the structural design variations such as height, roof pitch and frame shape that may affect your design costs.
Steel Building Buyer’s Guide
2. The Price Of Steel
Steel prices move daily. In fact, they fluctuate so much that to give you an accurate price for your new prefabricated building we have to consider the price of steel that month. For any steel manufacturer a price given in one month can alter – up or down – on another.
The basis of the building is a valuable world commodity – steel.
Steel is a prized material – but demand for it fluctuates – sometimes over an extended time period, sometimes over the course of 24 hours. The world experiences slumps in the demand for steel – which pushes prices down – and spikes in demand for steel – which pushes prices up. This is especially true when major world events such as government elections or pandemics are affecting the availability of steel.
Between these extremes there are rises and dips for a host of other reasons.
But with steel being such a big part of your steel building its price has a major effect on the building’s cost. Which means a good third of your building’s cost is determined in a substantial way by what’s going on elsewhere in the world – and how that might affect the price of the steel on the day you need it.
3. Fuel Costs
Steel building components being transported on flatbed truck
Another commodity cost; this one affects the cost of getting heavy steel from the supplier to our factory and then transporting the heavy finished product from our factory to your job site. Fuel prices don’t tend to fluctuate like steel costs do but as we all know from time to time they do move around a bit.
4. Buying Power
Like many commodities the price of steel can be reduced if the buyer is buying in bulk. That’s practically impossible for an individual client to do. But a large steel manufacturer like Allied Steel Buildings always buys at a discount due to the amount we purchase. At Allied, this discount is passed on to our client- giving them a genuinely competitive quote.
5. Custom Features
Of course, other add-ons can also affect costs. Allied’s steel building kits can be designed with a wealth of features that make your building that much more user-friendly, comfortable and cost-efficient:
Insulation: if it’s important to maintain some sort of steady temperature in the building then good insulation is a must-have because it pays for itself over time. Still, in the initial construction phase its cost has to be factored in.
*Read more on When to insulate your prefab metal garage here:
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Solar Panels: again, an addition to your building that will pay for itself over time but whose initial installation cost has to be accounted for in your initial budget.
Functional additions: there are simple add-ons that can improve the usability of your building – windows, vehicle doors, walk doors, skylights and similar.
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