A Decade of Fabric Structures in Review
Thirteen years ago, Legacy started its business to revolutionize the fabric-building industry and change how fabric structures were designed, manufactured, and installed. Thirteen years and hundreds...
General Contractors: Talking Points to Help You Land the Project
When you are a B2B supplier of tension fabric structures—sometime quite large structures—helping our customers do business is part of the contract. We don’t want to just sell you a building; we want...
Constructing Fabric Buildings with Solid Steel Frames
This article from Engineering.com examines how fabric buildings are constructed. In particular it looks at framing the buildings with solid steel tapered I-beams versus web trusses. It explains the...
Smart Dry Bulk Storage Solutions
As the year begins, many have stopped looking at the past year and are looking forward to the approaching year. Storage has been a big theme in 2021, due to the economic climate, and it continues to...
What Does Maintenance Free Mean When You Own a Fabric Building?
When you are buying a building, there is probably a spot on your budget spreadsheet for ongoing maintenance. That totally makes sense, because with traditional buildings you have costs associated...
Single panel fabric structures versus Monocover buildings
Before Legacy began operations in 2010, our team already had years of experience installing all manner of fabric structures. Many had been doing it since the mid 1990s, and they installed their fair...
How Much Does a Fabric Building Cost? Insights
When considering a fabric building, one of the most common questions is, “How much does it cost?” More specifically, many buyers ask, “How much does a fabric building cost, and what goes into that...
Custom Fabric Building Design: Tailored Solutions for You
This article appears in the November/December issue of The Military Engineer, and it explains how tension fabric structures have evolved from "hoop buildings" to the current state of the art. Current...
Legacy Builds Fabric Buildings Worldwide During COVID-19
This article focuses on the operational challenges of installing tension fabric structures all over the world, even during a pandemic. It examines a project in Guam--a military hangar--that is...
Explore Single-Source Tension Fabric Structures
Bringing all aspects of our single-source tension fabric structures in-house has been part of Legacy’s evolution these past 10 years. That’s what single-source means to us, and it’s why our customers...
Investing in Your Future Through Infrastructure
Even though the economists don’t know what to call our current situation—recession, double-dip recession, depression, etc.—you are probably pretty sure what to call it.
Communication: The Construction Material You Don’t Hear About
Like a lot of construction companies, we like to talk about our steel, our proprietary fabric and even our new exclusive epoxy coatings. One of the most important elements, however, is communication....
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Request a Quote? It’s not hard.
If you’re ready to talk to someone about our tension fabric structures, we try to make it easy with the “Request a Quote” button on the website. However, if you are nervous about clicking on that,...
Real Wind in the Real World
Our engineers and designers do a lot of work to make sure our buildings stand up to the elements—wind, snow and seismic activity. We often mark our buildings with wind ratings, saying they will stand...
Fighting Corrosion: Hot-Dip Galvanizing vs. EpoxxiShield™
We’ve seen the effects of corrosion on many steel buildings, and one thing is for sure: hot-dip galvanizing (HDG) doesn’t prevent corrosion. It just delays it for a few years.