subject: Steel School Buildings [print this page] School buildings need to be just right and perfect to attract children to it. Apart from the exteriors, the structure should be extremely strong because you have a lot of children inside. This is why steel school buildings provide the right solution mix of exterior beauty, internal strength and stability and low cost. You couldnt get a better deal on your school building than steel.
Steel is perhaps the strongest structure ever to be used in
metal building construction. With advances in technology, there are very strong structures that are today possible at the lowest cost. These are ideal for a school building because of the inherent strength of steel. Steel school buildings can withstand the worst of weather conditions, be it hail, snow, rain, cyclones, storms, etc. Steel buildings also rate very high on earthquake resistance. This means the children are completely safe inside whatever happens outside.
In addition, steel is fireproof which is a very important thing for a school that ensure the safety of the children, since even a minor fire inside a school premises can trigger off a panic that can get difficult to control. However, with a steel school building, you dont need to worry about such problems.
On the cost front, Steel buildings are much cheaper than their traditional counterparts because of the lesser quantity of material required for construction and also because of the very little labor involved in building a steel school building. When you go for prefab school buildings, you hardly need any labor. In fact, a few people can get together and assemble the whole building by themselves without any labor at all, primarily because steel buildings dont require any welding to be joined.
Steel buildings can also be customized to design them the way you want them, from the exterior colors to the interior rooms. This is extremely simple with steel buildings and you can get just the right architecture that you always wanted for your perfect school.