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Tension Fabric Building Foundations

Fabric Building Foundation Factors and Types Explained

Every building depends on a strong foundation, and tension fabric structures are no exception. A well-designed foundation improves safety, durability, and long-term performance, and it protects your...

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Collateral loads on rigid steel frame fabric building

Custom Engineered Tension Fabric Structures for Collateral Loads

One of the benefits we often mention when we are talking about tension fabric structures is the strength of our solid steel frames. That’s important because a lot of our clients like to hang stuff...

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permanent fabric structures

Are Tension Fabric Structures Permanent or Temporary?

We get this question a lot, and we don’t mind it too much, because a lot of people simply assume our buildings are temporary and never bother to ask. People naturally assume that a structure with a...

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Ontario International Airport - Tension Fabric Aviation Storage

Airing on the Side of Caution: Ventilation

One of the early discoveries customers make about our tension fabric structures is how air-tight they can be. We have gone to considerable effort to make sure the weather stays on the outside of our...

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fabric athletic structure

This year: More tension, less stress

After all the memes about self care and gratitude have cleared, you have the rest of the year to figure out what you are going to do. If you need a new building in 2020, we have five ways we can...

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Manufactured - Design - Installation - Tension Fabric Building - Legacy Building Solutions

No Assembly Required

Unless you are do-it-yourselfer of the first order, the words “some assembly required” can be daunting.

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2020 - Rigid Steel Frame - Tension Fabric Building - Legacy Building Solutions

Excited for 2020

Usually at the end of the year—or the beginning of the next—you see a lot of blogs about 10 favorite things of 2019 or three resolutions for 2020.

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Custom Design Tension Fabric Building - Legacy Building Solutions

Customized Buildings: Not What You Think

We were reading a blog post from a real estate site, and it was warning readers about custom-built homes. It listed three things that buyers should beware of. Since we at Legacy Building Solutions...

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Tension Fabric Structures versus Tensile Fabric Structures - Legacy Building Solutions

Tension Fabric Structures versus Tensile Fabric Structures

In your research about our tension fabric structures you probably also came across tensile fabric structures. We wanted to take a minute to clarify the differences, if there is any confusion.

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Cost-Effective Tension Fabric Building Construction - Legacy Building Solutions

Why Hiring a Construction Manager Saves You Time, Money and Stress

Construction managers are professionals engaged by the owner of a construction project to act as their liaison through all phases of construction. In the case of building construction, the...

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Rigid I-frame - Steel - Tension Fabric - Legacy

We Love Steel

We are often confronted by customers who are trying to choose between our tension fabric buildings and steel buildings. Let’s get one thing straight: we love steel.

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Cooperative Purchase Agreement  - Legacy Building Solutions

Flexibility and Speed at Heart of Cooperative Purchase Agreements

The design-bid-build process can have multiple parties communicating, and miscommunicating, for what feels like forever; specs are reconsidered, delaying completion dates; and costs rise for...

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Tension fabric structures

Tension Fabric Structures: Ghost Stories

This week—in harmony with the season—we are going to visit some of stories we hear about fabric structures that are dubious, suspicious or completely without substance. They are, in fact, ghost...

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Tension Fabric  - Rigid Steel Frame - ExxoTec Fabric

Fabric Building: Imagine That

Our HR director had just come from a job fair, and she was talking about how it was difficult to describe what we, at Legacy Building Solutions, do. We decided to take a shot at it. If you’ve never...

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Precast concrete panels for bulk storage

Why We use Precast concrete panels for Bulk Storage

Most of our bulk storage customers need walls inside their buildings to organize and separate things such as fertilizer, agricultural commodities, salt and sand. In these cases, we usually advise...

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