Arizona · Service area

Metal buildings in Arizona.

We supply shops, garages, RV storage, ranch buildings, barndominiums and more across Arizona. Our work reaches from the Phoenix valley to the high country, and anywhere else you’re building.

Statewide building code

None

Farm & ranch

County exemption

Snow load

Set by elevation

Rural county zones

Can be exempt

Arizona leaves building codes to its cities and counties. We confirm yours before drawings are produced.

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What people build in Arizona

Desert acreage, ranch ground and the mountain towns all ask different things of a building.

Shops & garages

Unfinished and under sixty feet wide, tubular steel is usually the answer. Insulating it doesn’t change that.

RV & boat storage

Settle the door before the footprint. Every two feet of eave above twelve adds roughly five percent to the frame.

Ranch & farm buildings

Hay barns, equipment storage and livestock shelter go up on ranch ground. Red iron takes over past eighty feet.

Barndominiums

Steel truss is the fit. Drywall attaches to the frame, so there’s no second wall to build.

See what a steel building costs for real per-square-foot ranges.

What matters for metal buildings in Arizona?

No statewide code

Arizona doesn’t set a building code for private construction. Cities adopt their own.
Counties may adopt one for zoned unincorporated land, and may exempt areas zoned rural or unclassified.

Farm & ranch ground

State law keeps county zoning off farming, ranching and stock raising.
Each county runs its own process. Maricopa and Mohave require five or more contiguous acres classified as agricultural, and a certificate before you build.

Elevation sets the snow

Benson’s design criteria step from no ground snow below 4,000 ft to 20 psf between 4,000 and 5,000 ft.
Coconino County sets snow load parcel by parcel, and anything over 70 psf requires engineered plans.

Living or working in it

A building people live or work in is Risk Category II wherever it sits.
Farm exemptions don’t cover buildings used as homes.

In Arizona, the same building can need a different frame two hours apart. The low desert carries little or no snow, while high country loads are set lot by lot. Add a different code in every city and county, and the address decides more than the dimensions do. We check it before anything is drawn.

Local guides for Arizona

We deliver and install anywhere in Arizona. These guides cover the permit rules around the state’s larger towns, and we check the rules for every other address the same way.

Building somewhere that isn’t listed? Tell us the address and we’ll confirm who permits it and what applies. See our whole service area.

Start with a conversation

Let’s talk about your Arizona project.

Tell us what you’re planning and where you’re building. We’ll help you work out the next steps.

Tell us what and whereSend us the size, how you’ll use the building and the address.
We check the siteWe confirm who permits the address and which code and loads apply.
You get a clear recommendationWe recommend the frame that fits and price it against the alternatives.