Take a walk through your building before it’s even built

Summit Steel Buildings is using virtual reality engineering tech so farmers get an advanced preview by visualizing and interacting with their custom-designed structure.

By Darren Sperling

A utilitarian agricultural structure doesn’t necessarily require the style and sophistication of a downtown art gallery or high-profile corporate headquarters, but aesthetics and design still matter. A farm building must be custom suited to your operation’s needs and complement other existing structures and environment. And once you have established the need for a new or replacement building, planning and design are the next necessary steps.

What would be better than walking through a floorplan that caters to your needs and be able to see it in all its 360-degree beauty and visualize how it fits into your operational plans?

Summit Steel Buildings’ proprietary virtual reality engineering system specially allows prospective buyers to do that very thing! Wearing special Oculus glasses, clients can explore a number of variations of their future structure; a preliminary view of the building and experience how their vision will come to life once completed.

The strength is engineering designed for the needs of the farm

Everything Summit Steel Buildings designs for our clients is specific to their unique project need. Not only does the building function ideally, but it can also be designed to look however they want it. While agricultural buildings don’t necessarily need to appear modern or elegant, they should always be impressive and look amazing. 

Our pre-engineered metal structures are custom designed in a variety of styles to include enough space and features like garages, storage, processing, housing livestock or poultry and to manufacture food products. Any commercial purpose you need can be incorporated into building design. And because our factories produce every panel and component needed, we ensure all the materials are made from the strongest and most durable steel – precisely engineered to last a lifetime. The combination of large-scale manufacturing capability and choice of design and materials means clients get everything they need at an affordable cost rather than by using other materials that require long-term maintenance.

Our agricultural metal buildings are long-lasting so that you don’t need to worry about the poles rotting when exposed to moisture or bearing the weather conditions like snow, wind, ice, etc. They're also customizable, giving you any desired finish; from sliding doors to insulation to windows to skylights, panels, trusses, and accessories, any size and shape, each are designed as per your needs. With unlimited interior re-configuration options and high-performance paints and coatings, your steel building will maintain its look and feel for years to come.

Summit Steel Buildings’ engineering teams use our design software to plan and render interactive illustrations (via building information modeling – or BIM – and other architectural platforms) before creating the virtual reality model.

Be it a 1,500 square-foot equipment shed or a 50,000 square-foot cattle barn, you can rely on our best steel building solutions, which are not only durable but also cost effective for your business. And no matter the need – storage for dairy facilities, farm buildings, grain storage buildings, hay sheds, utility sheds, livestock shelters or equipment storage – we can provide you with the best steel building solution. We even build horse riding arenas!

Protect your valuable tractors, harvesters, combines, plows, balers, seeders and sprayers from the elements to extend their life and get more use out of a valuable investment… Imagine being able to clean and maintain them in heated, comfortable environment with all the proper access to electrical, plumbing and draining to make the job even easier.

Technology is changing everything – let us put it to work for your farm operation

Innovative new technology has affected all industries. From drones for seeding and crop surveillance, to indoor or vertical agriculture, to more automated and guided navigation systems for farm vehicles, agricultural operations are now able to do more with less by using agtech to get much more yield out of every acre of arable land. Just as clients want to get healthier and more successful crops out of each harvest, Summit Steel Buildings is using engineering and design tech (e.g., BIM, 3D modelling and virtual reality) to make our structures even more durable and resistant to extreme weather and seismic conditions.

We’d love to work with you and provide you with a demonstration of our VR design technology. Your custom-designed agricultural building awaits!

Contact us when you’re ready to get started at 877-417-8335 and receive your free quote and preliminary drawings.