Seward · Seward County
Metal buildings in Seward, NE.
West of Lincoln it’s farm ground, and most of what goes up out here earns its keep. Equipment storage, hay barns, and farm shops built to work rather than to look at.
What people build here
Agricultural work, mostly. Machine sheds, hay storage, and shops with enough room to pull a combine inside and still work around it. That last part is worth thinking through at the design stage — the building that fits the equipment today often doesn’t fit the equipment you buy in five years.
Tubular stays a sensible frame through about sixty feet on agricultural work and headered openings go to twenty feet, which covers most machinery. Past that we’d move you to red iron and tell you why.
See what a building costs, or run your dimensions through the calculator there.
Engineering and permitting
Rural Seward County generally accepts generic Risk Category I engineering for qualifying agricultural and utility structures, which keeps tubular viable and keeps the cost down on farm work.
Inside Seward city limits it’s a different process. And anything regularly occupied is Risk Category II wherever it sits, which includes a shop you’ll heat and work in through the winter.
Snow load is the Nebraska variable that moves the engineering most, and it climbs as you head west. We run the ASCE 7 hazard tool against your actual project address rather than a county average.
Brent works these counties every week. Tell him the address and he’ll tell you what applies.
Who you’ll be dealing with
Brent Epp handles Nebraska. He’ll design your building, work out what your county requires, and stay with it through delivery.
Brent Epp
417-318-9217
brent@vantagebuildings.com
Nearby: Lincoln metro · Nebraska