If you are using pre-engineered metal buildings, or PEMBs, for your next business project, you may think the exterior choices are limited. With PEMBs growing sales, this is farther from the truth, as many commercial structures today utilize metal buildings. Reel Steel Construction serves Florida with only the best in pre-engineered buildings, carport sales, and are ready to assist with the installation if need be. With so many people choosing PEMBs, why not choose an exterior that works for your business?
What Are PEMBs?
These prefabricated buildings are manufactured specifically for your needs, eliminating any extras that you don’t need and would cost you extra. All the pieces of a PEMB are prefabricated at a factory, thus when it arrives to you it’s simple and fast to build and put together. Framing alone is a third less of the time it takes than other building systems. Steel never changes shape with differing weather and humidity changes as lumber does, therefore your steel won’t warp, bend, twist, deteriorate, creep or sag like wood, lasting years to come. This allows you proper time inside of your building and business, rather than constantly going out and repairing or fixing something on your structure with traditional building systems.
Metal Building Exteriors
You may still be envisioning airport hangers and carport sales when thinking about PEMBs, but times have changed. There are many different ways of styling these structures to help blend in with other local businesses and not appear so industrial. The exterior gives customers or employees the business’s first impression, and of course you want to stand out while also maintaining a sense of warmth and welcome to anyone walking through those doors. Adding a colorful or artistic exterior facade to your building enhances its overall curb appeal, and one of the more economical methods involves installing exterior siding.
If you’re looking for more of a professional, upscale appearance for your PEMB, using concrete, brick or stone veneers to the exterior helps enhance the overall aesthetic. You may have specific municipal requirements to adhere to as well, depending on where you’re building, and need to have certain materials on the facade of your steel building, in which case concrete or stone can help keep you on point both in appearance and in your city’s codes. If you’re more of a rural person and thinking of your PEMB as more of a barn or farm building, wood siding can easily be attached to the exterior. The wood adheres nicely to the existing steel panels, so it won’t change your building’s durability or strength over time while adding a natural, rustic look instead. Stucco siding also gives you another affordable option to enhance your steel building’s motif. Stucco siding is easy to maintain, while offering great insulative properties to help maintain comfortable and consistent temperature control in your building year-round. If you want to add energy efficiency to your PEMB, then foam-insulated siding is right for you. There is a variety of styles and designs of foam-insulated siding specific to steel buildings, including corrugated, stucco, wave and embossed. These different types help keep your building more comfortable while giving it a greener and more elegant appearance.
The Choice Is Clear
No matter what your building is going to end up becoming, there is an exterior that will work to bring out it’s best qualities to future customers and it’s employees. Gone are the dark, grey exteriors of older PEMBs, as the exterior facade styles and designs of today will have people coming back for years to come.
Contact Us
Ready to turn your metal building into something beautiful and exquisite? Whether your business is carport sales or an upscale boutique, Reel Steel Construction has been helping all of Florida in building and constructing the PEMBs of their dreams, one building at a time. Call us today to get started!