| Haiti has recently experienced a horrific natural | | | | strength, high versatility and economical costs. |
| disaster. A massive earth quake rocked the | | | | What about engineering time, fabrication time, and |
| country from it foundation, literally. Hundreds of | | | | construction time? There is no other structure in |
| thousands of people were killed or injured and | | | | the world that can beat a metal building in these |
| just as many people are now living in unsafe tent | | | | areas. There is sophisticated software that is |
| cities. How did this happen overnight? Basically it is | | | | used to design and engineer metal buildings with |
| a combination of lax building codes, poor | | | | speed and incredible accuracy. Today's machinery |
| construction techniques and inadequate building | | | | used to fabricate the steel parts are all Computer |
| materials. Haiti is actually lucky that a major | | | | Numeric Controlled, eliminating any mistakes or |
| Hurricane has not caused this type of destruction | | | | errors. Time needed for construction is by far the |
| previous to this earthquake with the type of | | | | fastest compared to conventional structures. All |
| structures that have been built. | | | | the parts of a steel building are pre-designed to fit |
| So what is the answer for Haiti? What structures | | | | together. There is no cutting, measuring, welding |
| should Haiti use to rebuild their country? The | | | | or guess work in the field. A small crew of |
| answer is simple. Steel buildings are the obvious | | | | erectors can put up of over 8000 square feet of |
| choice. There is no other structure on the planet | | | | building a week! |
| that has a cost to strength ratio like a steel | | | | Nowadays, building with the environment in mind is |
| building. When building with steel, you get a very | | | | of utmost importance. Our planet must be |
| strong structure and at very economical price. | | | | respected and our actions carefully chosen. When |
| Sure a wood or concrete structure can be build | | | | building with steel, you are helping to preserve our |
| strong, but at high cost comparatively speaking. | | | | environment. Not only is a metal building 100% |
| Pre-fab metal buildings can be designed to | | | | recyclable, it is partially made for recycled steel. |
| withstand hurricane force winds, high seismic | | | | There are even paint finishes that are Energy |
| loads, blizzard snow storms and even resistant to | | | | Star Rated for their energy saving characteristics. |
| fires. There are steel buildings in every corner of | | | | These finishes are even warranted for up to 40 |
| the world and this is not by accident. The high | | | | years! There are no other structures in the world |
| popularity of steel buildings are due to the great | | | | that can make these claims. |