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The basic requirement to erecting a building is instruction, tools, equipment and manpower. Usually Metal buildings are engineered to bolt together easily. Metal Building Manufacturers will send you an erection manual along with your plans. They start with laying out the foundation, anchor bolts and setting templates. There are general guidelines as to the basic foundation design, but footing sizes need to be designed to work with your soil profile. Additionally, their instruction literature covers many facets of the building process including material handling, storage and most importantly SAFETY.

In most cases most of the metal building manufacturers do not manufacture the products they sell. They play no part whatsoever in the design, detailing, drafting or engineering of your structure. If you have a problem in the field, it will be highly unlikely that you will be able to get adequate help from a Broker. So please be conscious in selecting the product that is controlled and manufactured to exact specifications.

A steel building is the most economical building choice you can make. Steel buildings are long lasting and trouble free. Steel is stronger and more resilient than conventional building materials. LOW COST steel buildings are more economical than conventional methods due to the originating costs and reduced labor. Complete steel buildings are delivered to the jobsite and quickly erected. QUICK CONSTRUCTION On average, a steel building system can be completed in approximately one-third the time required for conventional construction. BETTER APPEARANCE The appearance of steel buildings can easily be enhanced with stucco, stone, brick or glass. Metal building systems can attain a remarkable exterior that will merge with the ambiance of the building's surroundings. LOW ENERGY CONSUMPTION a suitably insulated metal building can drastically decrease heating and cooling expenses. Insulated roof and wall systems preserve and reassure thermal efficiencies. LOW MAINTENANCE extended life materials reduce maintenance, and eliminate troubles such as structural deterioration, rotting and insect damage. EXPANDABILITY It easy to enlarge a building by removing the end walls, erecting new framework and adding matching wall and roof panels. In most situations, the original end wall panels can be reused.

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Attorney General Salazar Sues General Steel For Deceptive Sales Of Steel Buildings

Attorney General Salazar Sues General Steel For Deceptive Sales Of Steel Buildings

Denver—Attorney General Ken Salazar announced today that his office has filed a consumer protection lawsuit in Jefferson County District Court against General Steel, a Lakewood, Colorado, company, as well as the company’s president, three managers, and a top salesperson, for alleged deceptive advertising and sales of manufactured steel buildings. The State alleges that through their deceptive advertising and marketing tactics, General Steel sold hundreds of buildings ranging from $10,000 to $100,000 to numerous ranchers, farmers, churches, and other consumers.

Named in the lawsuit are General Steel Domestic Sales, LLC dba General Steel, General Steel Industries, LLC dba Capital Steel, Jeffrey Wayne Knight, president and CEO of General Steel, Kevin Neal Kissire, general manager for General Steel, managers Bruce Graham and Jordan Blum, and salesman Jeffrey Scott Donelson.

The lawsuit alleges that beginning in 1997, General Steel passed itself off as a manufacturer of buildings and falsely advertised factory-direct clearance sales. The company used numerous deceptive marketing schemes to sell expensive manufactured steel buildings to consumers in Colorado and throughout the United States.

“Consumers looking to make a large purchase must be able to rely upon truthful advertising and accurate sales information, and businesses have no right to use false and deceptive claims in order to make a sale,” Attorney General Salazar said. “The use of abusive sales practices at the expense of honest customers and business competitors is unacceptable in Colorado.”
The lawsuit alleges that General Steel used a combination of national radio, television, direct mail, and other Internet advertising and deceptive telephone sales scripts to sell their buildings. The lawsuit alleges that consumers who called General Steel’s office in response to the advertisements were purposely misled to believe General Steel was a factory or manufacturer of steel buildings, and that some number of previously purchased unclaimed buildings had become available. As explained to consumers by salespeople pretending to be employees of the shipping or production department, a limited number of buildings had become available because of cancelled orders, and that sale-priced “clearance” buildings were available because of unusual circumstances. The sales scripts authorized by the president and managers encouraged such misrepresentations.

The Attorney General’s lawsuit seeks a court order providing refunds to its purchasers, civil penalties of up to $2,000 per violation of the Consumer Protection Act and attorney fees and costs. The lawsuit also seeks a preliminary and permanent injunction preventing defendants from engaging in any future false and deceptive advertising of their merchandise.

The lawsuit alleges more specifically that defendants advertised pre-constructed steel buildings with a toll-free number for consumers to call. General Steel’s salespeople were instructed to pretend that they were not salespeople but were instead from shipping or production or some other department consistent with a manufacturing plan. General Steel’s agents answering the telephone would ask questions about the customer’s building needs and would lead the caller to believe that the "agent" was aware of a clearance building originally purchased by someone else who had cancelled their contract, and that the building may be available at a substantially discounted price. The salespeople would further create a false sense of urgency by claiming that other consumers were considering the same discounted buildings and that in order to get an incredibly discounted price on the leftover buildings, the consumer needed to place a deposit or risk losing the opportunity. The lawsuit further alleges that General Steel did not sell clearance buildings, that excess inventory did not exist, that General Steel is not a manufacturer, and that it is actually a middleman distributor that must order buildings from other manufacturers.

The Attorney General’s office initiated an investigation of this matter in 2003 after receiving numerous consumer complaints from the Colorado BBB, the media, and from law enforcement offices in other states.



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Pre Engineered Steel Buildings - Highly Ethical in Steel Buildings Construction - A New Era in Metal Building Systems

Pre Engineered Steel Buildings could well be the possible solution in the modern world. According to human nature, a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists. Now-a-days, there are lots of pre engineered steel buildings; metal buildings manufacturers arise, to make the customers to design their own building as per their need.

Pre-engineered buildings, compared to the old steel buildings, metal buildings system, offer numerous advantages especially, easy to install and very much cost effective. Most probably, those pre engineered steel buildings and metal buildings are designed to meet the demand of their customers. Steel Building companies designed it completely with the user in mind.

On average, a steel building system can be completed in approximately two-thirds the time required for conventional construction. Pre engineered steel buildings are an economical choice and will save you money in construction costs. As a conclusion, pre engineered steel buildings are long lasting, less expensive, time consuming and trouble free.

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IQS – Icon Building Systems Comes Up with a New Technological Trend

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops. But Icon Buildings proves their continuous success in each & every steps of their business innovations.

Now, Icon Buildings comes up with a new Metal Building Software, the most advanced metal buildings, steel buildings design & pricing system, in 2008. Here we can build, design & price our own choice of steel buildings & metal buildings online. A real time designing system to build our own choice of pre engineered steel buildings & metal buildings in a fraction of seconds.

Metal Building Software is a Software Program that does the complete design of pre engineered steel buildings & metal buildings. The software does the design based on your inventory and your own choice. Clients who use our software have reduced their design & pricing time.

In modern trend, most of the steel building & metal building customers, wish to design their own choice of metal buildings. IQS, an advanced technology with user friendly functionality, designed to satisfy these kinds of customers. Anyone can build, design & price his or her own choice of steel buildings & metal buildings right from their home computer.

Complete Installation guides & instructions are available in iconbuildings.com.

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