Post frame can be easily customized to meet your individual building needs. Whether you're looking to add on to an existing structure or start from scratch, your post-frame contractor can work with you to accommodate your unique specifications.

Post frame construction uses traditional concepts improved upon with the latest in engineering technology that creates a sophisticated, visually appealing structure. Considerable engineering research ensures code-complying, reliable, durable buildings of all uses and styles.

What you want, when you want it, and how you want it -- that's post frame!

Superior in three ways
Post frame is superior to conventional steel or masonry construction in three ways. First, you will enjoy increased energy efficiency and the lower heating and cooling bills that go with it for years to come. Second, the wide range of attractive and flexible design features are simply unmatched. Third, and perhaps most important, post frame provides more strength and structural integrity for your building dollar.

Whatever the need - post frame is the solution!
Our buildings are renowned for their excellence in engineering design, strength and beauty. We offer a wide variety of building designs to meet any need, as well as an endless array of color combinations to provide that distinctive look you will be proud of for years to come. From machinery storage to garages, environment-controlled livestock and layer housing to quick-marts, or even an addition to an existing facility, let us show you why post frame is the answer you've been looking for.

A variety of post frame buildings are pictured to illustrate how our versatility and creativity can help personalize your building to your particular taste.

Be "under roof" much faster
Wood posts function as support columns in an engineered system of strategically integrated wood-framing components...a system that permits construction costs - both time and materials - to be cut in numerous ways.

Quite often, posts are implanted in the ground, eliminating the considerable cost and delay caused by poured foundations which, in many instances, are unnecessary. Site preparation, time and costs are cut to a minimum. Consider too, that construction can begin in frozen ground or any condition where earth can be penetrated by powered auger. Where concrete slab or frost-wall construction is required, post frame construction is readily adaptable to that need as well.

With posts in place, remaining framing components, including those for doors and windows of virtually any dimension, are installed in record time. Before you know it, framing is complete and ready for roof trusses.

Compare this with the slow block-by-block erection of masonry walls or the time consumed in bolting together the heavy, hard-to-handle and costlier components of a metal frame building. It's easy to understand why post-frame construction has rapidly become the choice for a wide variety of commercial and agricultural buildings.

The significant savings in construction time and materials mean you can have the building you want at significantly less cost. Think of what that means in terms of dollars saved in financing, both interim and long term. But that's not all. Because you move in much sooner, you start realizing a return on your investment much sooner too!

When the time comes to expand, your initial choice of post frame construction will again be amply rewarded. The same features which saved so much time and money during initial construction pay off again when you need to add on. Your addition will again be under roof and enclosed more quickly - and at far less cost than if you had originally selected some other construction method.

Strong, durable and energy efficient
Post frame technology is recognized as a truly significant advancement in the centuries-old art of wood frame construction. The development of this technology during recent years came about via the application of modern structural engineering principals and stress testing methods.

Concurrently, highly effective wood treatment chemicals - both for preventing decay and retarding fire - were also developed. As a result, you can choose post frame construction for your new building and be fully confident it will have the strength and durability you have every right to expect.

An often-overlooked feature of wood is its insulation quality, which is far superior to that of steel or masonry. What's more, the natural "wall cavity" of a post frame building lends itself to the easy installation of a variety of insulation materials. You'll appreciate this fact if you elect to do some of the finish work yourself!

Customize size, layout and style at "standard plan" costs
You usually expect to pay more, often much more, for anything that's "customized"...especially when it's a building. If you deviate from the few available "cookie cutter" plans, cost literally zoom.

Not so when you choose post frame construction! Framing components can be quickly fabricated on-site to the precise dimensions you've specified on the plans.

The unequaled flexibility of post frame construction means your building can be designed to make the best use of the available site. Post frame buildings offer clear spans large enough to meet the most demanding requirements...total widths and heights can be tailored to meet your needs for today...and tomorrow!

Post frame construction offers all of this without the high costs that go hand in hand with designing and fabricating the components of other conventional types of construction.

Further, the flexibility and adaptability of post frame construction means you specify the style of architecture most appropriate for your business, building site or your individual taste...without incurring budget-busting costs. The bottom line is lowest cost per square foot when you choose post frame construction!

Finish inside and out to suit your individual taste
Another significant cost-saving feature of post frame construction is the ease and speed of finishing both exterior and interior surfaces. Unlike steel or masonry construction, wood components used in post frame erection permit the direct application of a virtually unlimited selection of wall, ceiling and roof materials. The cost and time of installing "nailers" is eliminated.

You could be a "sidewalk superintendent" for a hundred post frame buildings and never be aware of the many off-site activities, processes, tests and standards that assure structural integrity and durability. Seventeen (17) separate specifications and standards established by seven (7) different "standards issuing" organizations, impact virtually every facet of post frame construction. In brief, here's the behind-the-scenes story.

To assure lasting protection against decay and insect infestation, lumber that will be in soil contact is pressure treated with preservatives in accordance with standards developed by the American Wood Preservers Association (AWPA). Every load is expected to meet these specifications. Having boring samples analyzed for the degree of preservative penetration isn't required, but it means you get the durability you have every right to expect!

Nationally recognized guidelines assure the strength and structural integrity of every post frame buildings we erect. National Forest Products Association standards specify the loads which various species and dimensions of lumber will support under compression, tension and deflection. The American National Standards Institute specifies minimum load requirements for designing any building subject to local building code regulations.

Standards developed by the Truss Plate Institute insure the strength of structural components joined by steel plates - now widely accepted as the superior method of fastening in truss fabrication. Still, there is no substitute for verifying the true strength of a new roof truss design and/or one in which an untested species of wood in used, than by loading a prototype truss in various ways until the truss fails.

Each of these specifications, and numerous other standards to which we subscribe, is included in the Recommended Practices for the Design and Construction of Commercial and Agricultural Post Frame Building, published by the National Frame Builders Association.

Adaptability, durability and economy make today's modern post frame building the logical choice for your new place of business. Post frame is the clear winner when compared to other conventional types of construction...for choice of architectural style...for time and cost to complete...for time and cost to expand...and, most importantly, for square foot cost of usable space!

-- The above information courtesy of The National Frame Builders Association.

The old barn photos depicted above are for historical and design appreciation and were constructed by various builders decades ago.