Steel buildings deliver strength to the mining industry

Operational savings exceeding 30% per year can be expected over facilities built with traditional materials.

Pre-engineered steel buildings are strong and resilient to protect your valuable assets in the most extreme climates. With over 40 years of combined leadership experience in the building sector, Summit Steel Buildings’ experience in the domestic mining, quarrying and extraction industries offers the benefits your next project needs:

1. Steel buildings built for mining’s toughest conditions:

Summit Steel Buildings’ haul truck maintenance and mining buildings are engineered to shed snow and withstand punishing weather conditions including extreme wind loads. We focus on building prospecting and mining facilities that are designed specifically for heavy industry, such as mine production enclosures, ancillary buildings, mining processing, haul truck maintenance facilities and more. When you need to build new temporary or permanent mining structures, your ideal mining camp and mining processing facilities can be built in remote locations, under rigid timelines and with limited foundation requirements if necessary.

Most components are pre-engineered offsite and transported in, resulting in less interruption at the job site and less need for large construction equipment that can be hindered by lack of access roads. Mining buildings are set up quickly and are designed to last for the entire life of a mine. With premium insulation packages, your teams will enjoy comfortable, livable spaces for a wide variety of infrastructure needs – whether it’s for office and administration, accommodations or processing purposes.

2. Respecting deadlines without sacrificing safety:

An expert in mining site construction, logistics and organization, Summit Steel Buildings strictly adheres to all aspects of project management as your single turnkey provider. Resilient buildings using pre-engineered steel panels can be erected quickly and affordably – and safely. Get the convenience of quick assembly without settling for temporary structures made from fabric or cloth. Choosing strength of steel means respect for safety standards and your budget – they’re both part our company’s rigorous design/build approach. Our company takes the time to learn your operation and actively participates in understanding your mining site, its layout and how supply roads and other buildings interconnect. This means we can build the most suitable facility for your location all while respecting the mining industry’s tight deadlines and complying with all local and national safety standards.

3. Providing maximum design flexibility:
Sites are constantly changing. Nothing stays the same. Underground layouts are continually expanding to open new access to resources, while above ground, new roads, earthworks and processing spaces for crushing and mill operations are being added, moved to accommodate the growth. A site needs the appropriate space and facilities to accommodate storing, crushing and mill operations and housing the materials and teams that get so much done over the lifetime of the mine. Site planning can be complicated with obstacles including site access roads, leach pads and tailings dams and space for grubbing. 

As your needs grow, you need a builder who understands your mine operations, how to engineer in harsh climates and remote locations and who can build in and around existing structures and other location confinements. And once building starts, construction gets complicated by integrating the handling equipment required for processing, such as overhead cranes, monorails and jib cranes. Summit Steel Buildings easily incorporate these factors too. Our prefabricated steel buildings offer large clear spans without support beams and pillars that obstruct floorplans. Our design eliminates the need for structural elements along the walls allow for more space for work and other required equipment. Pre-engineered steel panels are tough and durable and can be affordably replaced quickly in the case of any accidental damage.

4. Long-term solutions that provide endless value:
Thanks to its versatile pre-engineered steel construction, your steel building can be expanded in the future as needed. A modular system at both ends means your building can cost-effectively increase to meet your needs. And although they’re engineered as permanent structures, pre-engineered steel buildings can be quickly and easily relocated thanks to a modular design and ability to be crane-lifted into place. Transportability allows our buildings to relocate or adapt to virtually any mining facility application or be modified quickly to address changing mine priorities – rapidly expand, reconfigure, dismantle and rebuild it to suit any sort of mining building purpose. Why rebuild when you can easily and affordably reuse? 

5. Cost savings during construction and operation:
Building with pre-engineered steel offers many benefits over using lumber or other traditional building materials. Metal buildings are more economical and offer more sustainability than using brick and mortar. Working with steel is generally 30% less than the price of traditional construction and takes about as third as long to complete. 

Summit Steel Buildings’ use of pre-engineered steel panels also offers unbeatable energy efficiency and reduced operational costs. In addition to using a superior R-30 or R-50 insulation, the energy efficiency of the building itself is optimized by integrating natural light and special finishes to reflect light and increase radiant warmth in place of greater heating system use during winter. Steel buildings are naturally cooler during the summer as well. Lower utilities and maintenance costs are a year-long result. Operational savings exceeding 30% per year can be expected over facilities building with traditional materials.

Building partnerships that protect your most valuable assets

Prospecting, quarrying and mining companies across North America are successful because of the assets they employ – their people, machines and intelligent research. More and more, mining companies are expected to use these resources wisely and to operate effectively to get a good return on the funds they spend, for customers and their investors. That’s why you need to partner with a reliable and dependable pre-engineered metal building provider – a company whose people are as tough and technically proficient as the buildings they manufacture and construct. Contact Summit Steel Buildings to get a free quote and to learn more about the benefits of our steel building. Let’s get started.

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