When you are buying a building, there is probably a spot on your budget spreadsheet for ongoing maintenance. That totally makes sense, because with traditional buildings you have costs associated with keeping your building operating and looking presentable. Those costs are for the life of the...
Neil Young did a famous live album called “Rust Never Sleeps”, and that’s a phrase that makes a lot of sense to our customers who have storage buildings. If you’re in mining, agriculture, bulk commodities or transportation, the things you store often have corrosive properties. Therefore the...
If you work for any agency that needs to keep roads safe during the winter months, chances are you’re stockpiling your salt pile for the approaching winter. Protecting your investment is a part of every salt operation, and there are some excellent reasons to consider a tension fabric structure...
Our own Paul Smith published an article in Dry Bulk Magazine in March. In it he examines five storage challenges in the dry bulk industry and how a tension fabric building can address those issues. Specifically he looks at speed of construction, loading and unloading, indoor versus outdoor,...
Our own Matt Vanscoyoc was published in the April issue of Waste Advantage Magazine (pages 60-65) in an article titled Composting Biosolids in Florida. It features a great team effort involving TLC Diversified, CDM Smith, Legacy and a proprietary composting method from Harvest Quest. Legacy...
We get this question a lot, and we don’t mind it too much, because a lot of people simply assume our buildings are temporary and never bother to ask. People naturally assume that a structure with a fabric exterior is de facto temporary but that is not the case. In fact, most our of buildings are...
After all the memes about self care and gratitude have cleared, you have the rest of the year to figure out what you are going to do. If you need a new building in 2020, we have five ways we can reduce your anxiety by adding tension.
We are often confronted by customers who are trying to choose between our tension fabric buildings and steel buildings. Let’s get one thing straight: we love steel.
Corrosion will inevitably damage metal - making metal buildings unsightly and unsafe, and in some cases even causing building failure.
One big advantage of fabric buildings is that they require very little maintenance. Many naturally occurring properties of fabric contribute to the need for little maintenance.
