Advantages of a Rigid Frame Building
You need a new building. But for what purpose? Whether your vision is a bulk storage facility, a sports center, aviation support, a wastewater treatment plant, or something entirely different, a...
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Passive Ventilation for Tension Fabric Buildings
Just like people, buildings need fresh air. Proper ventilation boosts building performance and supports maximum longevity. It improves indoor air quality in terms of comfort and safety, whether...
Advantages of a Clear-Span Tension Fabric Building for Desalination
Desalination plants are complex, high-volume operations involving pumping stations, electrical equipment, and, sometimes, miles of pipes that house the filtration systems. They are expensive to...
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Building Beautiful and Functional Indoor Riding Arenas
Horse enthusiasts are happiest when they’re partnering with their beautiful, powerful companions in some type of athletic activity: dressage, jumping, barrel racing or other rodeo events, the...
How Legacy ExxoTec™ Buildings Hold Up Against Nature
You don’t have to live in an officially designated High Velocity Hurricane Zone or the Andes Mountains to appreciate the practical and economic value of buildings that can hold their own against...
PE Fabric Versus a Legacy ExxoTec™ Building
Polyethylene (PE) fabric has been used for years as a structural cladding material. It is lightweight (but strong), durable, and reliable when installed under proper tension. PE tension fabric...
Why Square Footage Matters
For a house or apartment, larger square footage is often preferred by both buyers and renters alike, as it offers more room to make the space their own. In commercial and industrial settings,...
Critical Factors to Consider for Long Span Fabric Structures
By definition, everything Legacy builds is a long span structure and part of the broader family of long span structures. Long span generally refers to the width of the building and the span of the...
Advantages of Rigid Frame Structures in Modern Design
In a world where flexible is defined as good and rigid is bad, we at Legacy are not afraid to say we like rigid. We are all about rigid, especially when we start talking about our frames.
Tension Fabric Structures: The Future of Building Design
We don’t need to tell you our tension fabric structures are different (even though we do it often). You can just look at them. Straight walls, solid steel frames, clean lines, and cladding tensioned...
Innovative Athletic Facility Design for Modern Sports Spaces
Most people watch the Olympics for the athletes, the events, the spectacle and the heroic stories. At Legacy, because we spend so much time and effort on sports facilities, we watch the Olympics for...
Lessons from the Field
We talk about our crews a lot. That’s because we hear from our customers how impressed they are with our installers’ attention to detail, their work ethic and their safety practices. They are our...
Innovative Fabric Buildings for Mining Industry
The world of mining is unique and making fabric structures for mining projects is the kind of challenge that Legacy loves to work on. Fabric buildings are a good match for mining operations because...
Can Fabric Buildings Support Heavy Conveyor Systems? Yes they Can.
In this article for Dry Cargo International, we look at some of the projects that Legacy has completed where conveyor systems were integral to the success of the facility.
Go Long: Are There Practical Limits to Fabric Building Size?
We talk a lot about the width of our tension fabric structures because we can create some impressively wide buildings due to our use of solid steel tapered I-beams. The proven engineering and...