There’s no right or wrong way to set up your shop – let’s get that out of the way up front. Your personal preferences will overrule general practices. But those general practices are based on workflow. Give these ideas some thought and then decide how they’ll work...
We know that Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb, the Wright brothers invented the first practical airplane, and Guglielmo Marconi invented the radio. But can we trace back the invention of steel to a single individual? Due to how long we’ve been using steel, that’s...
If you live in an area where it gets very cold or very hot depending on the season, you’re already used to stepping through a curtain of air as you enter and exit the store. Air curtains, which also are known as air doors, blow a concentrated stream of air across an...
Not everybody needs to take this into consideration, but snow load capacity is important to know if you’re searching for a prefabricated metal building. Geography plays a big role in the consideration. If you are in a location where you can experience significant...
We often think of wind – if at all – as what messes up our hair when we go outside. Wind has a wide variety of impacts, ranging from the damage it can do to structures, to its benefit when harnessed for energy creation. The United States Office of Energy Efficiency...
