The One Simple Secret to Pole Buildings Which Stand Up
HINT: It has nothing to do with how it is built!
Regardless of what anyone pays for a new pole building, whether investing in a complete kit package, piece mealing it together, or having it constructed – the general idea is to have the building stand up.
Obvious, right?
Properly designed pole buildings have every component and connection checked by rigorous engineering calculations to insure the ability of your new building to meet the applicable wind, snow and seismic conditions being applied to the structure.
This is a lot of calculations – on an average pole building, it could be 200 pages worth. Single spaced.
I told you I was going to share a secret.
WL^2 / 8
Cool, isn’t it?
Well, only if you know what it is. For engineers and other skilled professionals – it is the formula for a uniformly loaded simple beam, supported at each end.
W is the load being applied to the beam.
L is the length of the beam (which is squared)
Multiply the two and divide by 8 to calculate the bending moment (read what bending moments are all about at: https://www.hansenpolebuildings.com/blog/2012/09/bending-moment/).
Why is this a secret?
Most of the folks who are trying to sell you a non-engineered building have no one in their organization who knows what this formula is. And even fewer know how to use it!
The person who sells me a new car doesn’t have to know why the car works – they have highly paid brilliant engineers who do those things.
WOULD YOU SERIOUSLY BUY A NEW CAR WHICH WASN’T DESIGNED BY ENGINEERS?
Anyone considering investing in a new pole building should do what I call “due diligence”. Make sure there is someone (hopefully a registered design professional) involved in the design who knows the secret…and better yet, is skilled at using it!
