Does constructing Pre-Fabricated Steel Buildings cost less in long term?

In today’s time, steel buildings are one of the most reasonable building options. While, the initial design, costs and planning process might look more scary, particularly if you are a beginner in the steel construction industry or are working with someone having less knowledge about the steel construction, a thorough evaluation involving cost will make you realize why quality prefab steel buildings stand out compared to the conventional ones.

When we talk about the cost of a building, it’s vital to know the difference between the initial and lifetime costs. In the construction industry, you’d always want to look ahead and assess the lifetime costs for any project. This can be the real difference between thousands and lacs of rupees wasted depending on your project scale, especially if you don’t do careful cost projections seeing the future ahead. Industry experts opine that steel and metal buildings projects certainly cost less and save you a lot of money throughout the building’s lifespan.

How Prefabricated Steel & Metal Buildings Save you Cost?

Having the capability of transforming into pre-engineered and prefabricated is probably one of the most looked-for aspects of metal and steel buildings. These features offer you cost saving to a great degree. You duly stand to benefit from the proficiency of all the designs of the pre-engineered metal buildings that have gone earlier, so that you can select from tried and tested buildings that been the centre of satisfaction for both residential and commercial clients.

Having prefabricated structures helps you save on:

• Design as well as engineering costs• Shipping of materials since components are generally shipped together• Costs on Labor

Regardless of what you are building, you have a lot of pre-fabricated and pre-engineered building options that will surpass your expectations.

Energy Saving Features of Steel Buildings – A great Cost Saver

If you believe that for most residential and commercial buildings, energy is consumed through the heating and cooling system, then you won’t be wrong. In fact, on an average 50% of homes spend on energy consumption through maintaining a relaxed interior temperature. Efficiency in energy goes into consideration while designing steel and metal buildings.

This begins with the process of manufacturing. A high amount of recycled materials goes into the making of metal and steel components. The aforementioned pre-fabricated and pre-engineered components are also energy saving features and have the ability to be recycled at the end of the lifespan of the buildings.

Having features such as cool metal roofs aid in protecting solar heat gain and lessen the effect of the heat produced by tarmac as well as conventional roofing products. Further, having sufficient ventilation protects the quality of the air inside and enhances the efficacy of the HVAC system. Using windows and skylights strategically, lessens the requirement of the electricity for lighting the building and offer healthy day lighting. All of these lead to considerable utility savings and energy efficiency.

Today, in this vast residential and commercial construction market, there is a reason why the metal and steel buildings are taking a strong lead. Low maintenance, durability coupled with lifetime cost savings takes a major share.

Sunil Srivastava is a Business Partner at New Life Steel Structures, a leading organization having expertise into the manufacturing of prefabricated steel structure.