Steel helps field a winning team

When health and fitness are in the lineup, a steel building is game-ready.

Community organizations, private enterprise and municipalities are continually looking for ways to deliver recreational options under increasingly challenging budgetary constraints. While using a steel structure offers many benefits over using lumber or concrete building materials, it’s well worth considering just how economical and sustainable they are over more traditional capital investments.

Today, recreation facilities aren’t just limited to playing to a single purpose playing surface, like an ice pad or basketball courts. Facilities are now expected to be multi-purpose community centres, complete with cafeterias, changing and shower areas, office space and storage, along with enough room for operational logistics and maintenance.

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A sports facility that wins on cost, performance and looks

Long gone are the days of a community-run recreation facility looking like a barn or something that belongs in a random field back in the 1970s. You'll be able to choose exciting architectural designs with an exterior finish that impresses and gives your prefabricated metal recreational building the modern look you want. With meeting rooms and other accommodations made to increase the popularity of your centre, it will become a monument of pride for your community.

One of the biggest physical benefits to prefabricated recreational steel buildings is the large clear spans they provide at an affordable price. This clear-span capability is one of the leading reasons why steel outperforms traditional building materials such as concrete or wood. Steel’s superior strength-to-weight ratio can allow for up to 90 metres (300 feet) of clear space for a recreational activities. By offering this large span, prefab steel buildings are ideally positioned for multi-purpose athletic buildings, field houses and community centres requiring open space. Structures relying on wood and concrete materials would require support columns to cover an equal span, limiting use. Columns and supports are potential hinderances by breaking up space and restricting design plans.

Internally, steel buildings create greater flexibility for installation of bleachers or walkways along the walls for the benefit of spectators. Depending on the use at the time, this flexibility also provides the opportunity for mobile seating, allowing even greater potential for the accommodation of spectators, or even using multiple playing surfaces concurrently. Imagine the potential of this flexibility, and the window of opportunity it opens to revenue-generating activities: tournaments, inclement weather contingencies, elite training accommodation.

Cold-form buildings are fully customizable to suit your needs and are built to spec. Pre-engineered structures can also handle higher roof pitches as well as mezzanines. High ceilings permit higher performance athletics, better ventilation and more space for additional floors to allow more activities, training areas and administration. The full-metal construction also contributes to overall sustainability through their long lifecycle, little to no maintenance and incredible durability. 

Whatever your sport, you’ll get the facility you need

We love sports and its shows. Summit Steel Buildings has experience in creating venues for all types of sports, summer and winter. Whether you need a single-pad, multi-pad ice arena (ideal for figure skating, short-track speed skating, curling or hockey) or a multi-purpose facility that offers a variety of programming (such as soccer, football, lacrosse, track and field, basketball, volleyball or Ultimate Frisbee), we can build whatever you imagine. By accounting for a wider variety of recreational programs, including swimming and aquatics, your facility will become a popular and busy destination that creates a positive community atmosphere.

Get ready to play! Once you’re at the starting line for your athletics facility project, contact Summit Steel Buildings and we’ll get started. We’re your one turnkey provider that focuses on providing you with the most suitable cost-effective solution to your building needs.