South Dakota · Service area
Metal buildings in South Dakota.
We supply machine sheds, shops, barndominiums, commercial buildings and more across South Dakota. Our work reaches from Sioux Falls and the eastern farm country to Rapid City and the Black Hills, and anywhere else you’re building.
Commercial standard
2021 IBC
Farm & ranch buildings
Exempt
City home code
2021 IRC, at most
New homes
Energy disclosure
From South Dakota Codified Laws, chapter 11-10. The state design standard doesn’t apply to homes and their accessory buildings, or to farmsteads.
What people build in South Dakota
Farm and ranch ground, growing cities and Black Hills acreage, each asking something different of a building.
Machine sheds
Equipment storage on farms and ranches. Red iron takes over past eighty feet.
Shops & garages
Unfinished and under sixty feet wide, tubular steel is usually the answer, sized for the snow and wind at your address.
Barndominiums
Steel truss is the fit. Drywall attaches to the frame, so there’s no second wall to build.
Commercial buildings
Shops, warehouses and service buildings, designed to the 2021 International Building Code.
See what a steel building costs for real per-square-foot ranges.
What matters for metal buildings in South Dakota?
Commercial buildings
- Any local building code must follow the 2021 International Building Code.
- Where a town or county has no code, the 2021 IBC is still the design standard for buildings started after July 1, 2021.
Farms & ranches
- The state design standard doesn’t apply to farmsteads, which state law defines as a farm or ranch and every structure on the land.
- County zoning can still limit the size and placement of accessory buildings.
Homes & their buildings
- Homes and their accessory buildings are also outside the state standard. Cities may adopt the 2021 International Residential Code instead.
- A city can’t be stricter than the 2021 IRC or require sprinklers. Builders of new homes must give buyers an energy-efficiency disclosure.
In South Dakota, a farm building may never be reviewed by anyone. State law exempts farmsteads from its design standard, so the engineering is between you and your supplier. We design every building to the snow and wind at its address, whether or not anyone checks.
Local guides for South Dakota
We deliver and install anywhere in South Dakota. These guides cover the permit rules in the state’s cities and busiest counties, and we check the rules for every other address the same way.
Sioux Falls & southeast South Dakota
Northeast & central South Dakota
Rapid City & the Black Hills
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 South Dakota 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.
Or call
417-218-8348