Fabric Building Accessories by Legacy Building Solutions

Customizable Doors for Fabric Structures

We are able to provide overhead, bi-fold, Megadoors, bottom rolling doors, sliding doors and hydraulic doors in the styles and sizes to fit the requirements for your tensioned fabric building.  Though these doors are most easily accommodated on the end walls, we can place them virtually anywhere you desire.  Most doors come with a vast array of options themselves.  Consider that your overhead door can radius into the tension fabric building or high-lift, staying tight to the fabric building wall and out of your way.  We can also simply provide framed openings that are prepared for doors to be installed by your preferred vendor.  We typically attempt to contract with local door suppliers so that they can provide the future service you deserve.  We also offer fabric roll-up doors if a customer demands this option.  Basically we can offer any kind of door you need, and we will properly engineer your fabric structure to handle the forces the doors apply to your structure. Of course, openers are always available for any door choice as well.

We offer walk doors, double doors, and patio doors—including all the hardware packages a customer or building official may require.
 

Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning for Fabric Structures

We can provide all the products needed to exchange the air as required for your fabric building use.  Keep in mind, for example, that the air needs to be rotated more frequently in a fabric tennis building than in a storage building.  Options are as simple as passive louvers with finishes appropriate for your fabric building use, or as complex as powered fans, air rotation units, and climate control systems.  Our fabric structures can also utilize multiple heating and cooling systems, including in floor, radiant and forced air.

Fabric Building Ridge Vents

We are happy to offer two different ridge vent options.  Open ridge vents are able to be controlled, but are typically a good choice that many customers can live with when housing livestock, where good airflow continually pushes out the peak.  Another option is a one-piece intake/exhaust vent that blocks rain, snow, and birds from entering.  These vents are more costly and do not provide the same open-air space, but do offer good ventilation.
 

Graphics for your Fabric Building

We can finish your fabric covered building with vinyl graphics that can be used to advertise you and your business to the public.  These graphics are applied directly to your fabric roof or walls.

Eave Extensions

Eave extensions are essentially a continuation of your roof line at the sidewall(s) of your fabric building.  These are desirable for many reasons, including aesthetics, to protect doorways and curtains and to shed moisture away from the fabric building and foundation.  We can design these extensions to extend from the tensioned fabric building any length you desire, but keep in mind that these extensions do affect truss design due to snow and wind affects.  A 3-foot eave extension would be very common.  If snow and ice sliding off your fabric structure is a concern we can add ice/snow breakers on your building to break up the snow and ice.

Interior Columns

Some clients require the benefits only a fabric building can offer, but do not necessarily require a clear span frame.  Examples might include free-stall dairy barns, maintenance garages, and grain storage structures.  Exploring this possibility of added columns might help to drive costs down for certain clients.

Curtains

We can offer a variety of curtain options that are a common accessory on livestock barns and covered riding arenas.  Examples include drop-down, roll-up, and fully automated systems that are thermostatically controlled.  We can work to find a system that fits your needs and budget for your fabric structure.

Insulation for Fabric Structures

We are able to fully insulate any of our fabric covered buildings, if that is what suits your needs.  Our insulated fabric buildings are very energy efficient.  Depending upon the use and location of a tension fabric building, it is common to utilize fiberglass batts ranging from R-19 to R-30.  There are numerous ways to insulate a fabric structure, and we can install any of them on your project.  If it is all about function, we can economically support the insulation in the roof and walls, leaving it exposed.  We can also take our insulated fabric structure to another level by adding an interior liner (see below).  Our insulation packages are a very popular for recreational buildings, sports complexes and fabric aviation hangars.

Liners for Fabric Structures

We can offer multiple fabrics used for interior building liners.  Liners help provide an aesthetically pleasing interior finish.  This is especially important inside most recreational and event facilities.  The liner will make it so you won’t see the framework when standing inside (or outside, for that matter) of the fabric covered building.  But a liner’s function does not stop at pretty looks.  In corrosive environments, (think salt and fertilizer) a liner helps protect the steel framework by preventing contact with the dust.  This will help extend the life of the steel for 50 years or even longer.  We offer both economical fabric building liners and premium fabric building liners.

Sprinkler Loads for Fabric Structures

When you desire, or local code requires, a sprinkler system be installed inside your fabric structure, just let us know.  We can account for these additional loads in the design of our rigid frames.  Fire suppression systems can still be used in our insulated fabric structures, and also if the building is lined.

Viewing Platforms 

Viewing platforms are a popular option for covered practice facilities.  As is the case with most anything you can dream, adding these to your structure is no problem for the Legacy team.

Conveyor and Overhead Cranes for Fabric Structures

Conveyors are commonly desired inside fabric structures used for various bulk storage needs.  Whether the product to be conveyed is grain, salt, aggregate, or something altogether different, we have contacts with the experts that can provide the right equipment, and we are able to design our rigid framework to support the loads of these conveyors if you want them hung from the roof and out of your way.  Our design software will apply the correct loads to the roof system, and follow that impact right to the fabric building foundation.  This ensures that every aspect of your project has accounted for these additional loads so that you have complete confidence in your investment. The same can be said for overhead cranes.  We can say with confidence that we are the only fabric structure company that can design overhead cranes to be built into the fabric building, we have the engineering capability to do this with our proven rigid frames.

Grain Liners Inside Fabric Buildings

When storing grain, your biggest concern is the cost-per-bushel.  Our grain liner packages, whether you opt for wood or steel, can be a great way to lower your cost-per-bushel.  These liners are also a great way to increase the capacity you have in your flat storage building without increasing your footprint, often times saving money by limiting costs on conveyors and the like.  These liners can be offered right down to the ground, or installed above where a concrete wall stops.  Many clients prefer a concrete wall to a certain height with the liner above it so that they can still push against the wall without hesitation.