Case Study

Reserve Road Salt Storage

Municipality of Bethel Park
Pennsylvania

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The Rundown

When state regulations required a permanent facility for road salt storage, the city of Bethel Park installed a fabric structure on a steel frame. Bethel Park worked with Legacy to procure a custom building 45 feet wide and 260 feet long, designed and installed within a tight timeline and on a difficult site.

Customer Success

“Our salt is delivered by rail cars to a large pit next to the storage structure. A conveyor system hoists it from pit to building. Legacy was the only company we talked to that could supply trusses strong enough to support the conveyors.”

O.J. Rinehart

“Everyone at Legacy was responsive and super friendly throughout the process. The estimate was what we wanted, they gave us a realistic timeframe, and the style of the building gives us more useable space and a more robust frame than the other options we considered. Construction was so easy – the crews showed up and were completely self-contained. The entire project was boom – done – easy.”

Kelly Fisher | Training & Exercise Coordinator and Field Operations Specialist for Hennepin County Emergency Management

Feature Details

  • 45′ x 260′ (11,700 square feet)
  • 24’ straight interior sidewall clearance on 10’ cast-in-place walls
  • Solid rod cross bracing
  • Hot dip galvanized steel components
  • Patented keder rail fabric attachment system; individual fabric panels attached to each frame
  • Flame-retardant fabric double-layered and laced to all vertical wall columns and purlins
  • 18” eave extensions with mesh soffit ventilation
  • 5”x6” gutter plus icebreakers
  • 6 ARV 2000 roof ventilators for attic cavity ventilation
  • Installed by Legacy crews
  • 25 psf ground snow load, 90 mph windspeed, wind exposure C, seismic B, enclosed, fully exposed
  • Building use: Reserve salt storage

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