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Steel I-beams in an equestrian fabric riding arena

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...

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5 mistakes fabric building owner make when looking to purchase a building

5 Mistakes Fabric Building Owners Make

Being successful is usually a matter of making the best decision after careful consideration. But getting to that best decision is a journey that often involves identifying all the wrong choices...

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Holiday Gift Buying Guide - Happy Holidays

Legacy Holiday Gift Guide: Great Gifts for the Tough-To-Buy-For

You’ve all seen those car ads where the parents buy the kid a car for Christmas or the wife buys her spouse the convertible he dreamed of when he was a kid. We are going to go one better. We think...

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Pacific Football Club - Tension Fabric Athletic Facility - Maintenance-free fabric cladding

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...

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Tension fabric structure vs. monocover fabric buildings

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...

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Tension fabric field house - how much will your tension fabric building cost

Tension Fabric Building Cost: Factors Affecting Pricing

When considering a fabric building, one of the most common questions is, "How much does it cost?"

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Looking for Custom Building Options - Request a Quote from Legacy

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,...

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Complete Fabric Building Specifications for Durable, High-Performance Structures

Fabric Building Specifications for Durable, High-Performance Structures

When we tell folks we make fabric buildings, they often get this puzzled look on their faces and ask “what kind of fabric?”. Sometimes, the more we explain, the more questions it prompts. That’s good...

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Panels vs Monocovers - Fabric Building

Fabric: Panels versus Monocovers

In this three part series, we are breaking down the structural integrity of tension fabric buildings. In part one, we looked at structural frames vs. open web trusses. If you missed it, you can check...

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Structural Frames vs. Open Web Trusses

Structural Frames vs. Open Web Trusses

In this three-part series, we are going to break-down the structural integrity of tension fabric buildings, reviewing structural frames vs. open web trusses, fabric panel cladding vs. monocovers, and...

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10 years in business, Legacy Buildings, Top 10 Buildings, Tension Fabric Structures, Fabric Buildings

Greatest Hits: 10 Remarkable Legacy Buildings

In celebration of our 10-year anniversary, we decided to take a look back at some of the buildings that were real turning points for us and for the industry. It’s easy to look through a bunch of our...

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mining operations, mining facilities, mining structures by Legacy Building Solutions

Fabric Structures For Every Part of Your Mining Operation

Legacy’s tension fabric structures are natural mining material storage, but there’s a lot of other ways to use our buildings in a mine’s operation. Our unique combination of solid steel beams and...

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environmentally sustainable - Green Buildings - Tension Fabric

Are Tension Fabric Structures Green?

In the 10 years that Legacy Building Solutions has been creating our buildings, many of the innovations we have incorporated into our structures are quite environmentally sustainable. Almost all raw...

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Are All Fabric Structures the Same?- Legacy Building Solutions

Are All Fabric Structures the Same? A Primer

To those of us who eat, sleep and breathe fabric structures, the answer to this is an obvious “no.” If you are just beginning to investigate the topic, however, it isn’t as clear cut.

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Tension Fabric Buildings - Tension Fabric Structures

Tension Fabric Structures 101

Welcome to class. If you’ve looked through the syllabus, you will already know we are going to investigate the ins and outs of Tension Fabric Structures. Your regular instructor would typically begin...

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