Pre-Engineered Metal Buildings for Commercial and Industrial Operations

100x140x29 | I-Beam | 14,000 sq ft | Brewery, Restaurant & Retail

Big Top Brewery | Sarasota, FL

Big Top Brewing had everything in place: a fully permitted design for a 14,000 square foot brewery and restaurant in Sarasota, Florida. The building was spec’d for full-scale production, a taproom, kitchen, retail space, and a connected outdoor patio. The exterior called for masonry finishes. The design had already been approved.

Then the cost estimate came back. Conventional construction on the permitted plan came in over budget—and because the design was already permitted, any change to the footprint or exterior would mean starting the permitting process over. Then financing needed time to stabilize.

We came in and redesigned the structural system as a pre-engineered metal building engineered to fit the permitted footprint exactly—same dimensions, same rooflines, same masonry facade on the outside. The structural change brought costs back under control without touching anything that had been approved. When the financing situation needed time to stabilize, we extended flexible payment terms and stayed involved through planning and coordination so the project kept moving.

The building was delivered on time and within budget. It looks exactly the way it was designed to look. That’s what it means to stay in it with a client when things get hard.

110x195x21 | I-Beam | 21,450 sq ft | Theatrical Production Facility

Gulfshore Playhouse Production Center | Naples, FL

The Gulfshore Playhouse needed a production center built for the work that happens long before a show opens — set construction, costume fabrication, prop work—with multiple departments operating simultaneously under one roof. The challenge wasn’t square footage. It was designing a space where none of those functions competed for it.

Large scenic pieces have to be built full-size and moved without obstruction. Costume and prop teams need defined workspace that doesn’t create bottlenecks for the crews on either side of them. The 21-foot clear height and column-free interior weren’t design preferences — they were operational requirements that dictated everything about how the building had to be configured.

We delivered a 21,450 square foot I-Beam structure with the open span and vertical clearance the work demanded. Each department has room to function. Materials and scenery move freely through the space. The building stays out of the way so the production work can happen — which is exactly what a facility like this is supposed to do.

255x250x16 | I-Beam | 64,000 sq ft | Manufacturing Facility Rebuild

Southern Truss Company | Ft. Pierce, FL

When Hurricane Milton destroyed Southern Truss’s fabrication plant in Ft. Pierce, Florida, the clock started immediately. The facility was the operational core of a wood truss manufacturing business—equipment running, forklifts moving, trucks loading and shipping daily. Every day the plant sat offline cost more than $100,000. There was no version of this project where moving slowly was an option.

The rebuild couldn’t be treated as a new construction project. The replacement structure had to match the original footprint exactly—any deviation would disrupt equipment paths and staging areas that the entire operation had been built around. Steel availability was constrained across the region in the aftermath of the storm. Permitting offices were backlogged. The site was still crowded with recovery equipment when our crews arrived.

We ran design, materials sourcing, and permitting simultaneously rather than sequentially. Field measurements confirmed the original layout down to the equipment paths. Materials were secured through our national supplier network at a moment when regional supply was tight across South Florida. Construction was phased to keep crews working safely around active recovery operations on the same site. Southern Truss was back in production faster than any sequential approach would have made possible.