Oil, Gas, & Energy
Fabric Buildings for Oil, Gas and Energy—It’s All About Flow
Legacy’s custom-designed fabric structures can be an important part of your oil, gas, and energy operations. From open-air machinery storage to insulated buildings for crews or offices, our buildings are custom-designed to match your specific needs.
The thermal properties of our fabric envelope keep the interior cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter. We can expedite design, fabrication, and installation because we do it all in-house. Our crews even travel the world to install our structures.
Legacy fabric buildings feature clean lines and unique patterns that stand out in any setting. We take pride in incorporating a variety of building materials to create structures that are not only functional but also visually appealing. The result is a striking design that enhances the overall aesthetic of your facility, blending seamlessly with its surroundings.
Tension Fabric Buildings Benefits
Rapid Construction
The sooner your building is up and running, the sooner it goes from a cost to a benefit. Legacy’s seamless in-house manufacturing and project coordination process minimizes the timeframe from design to delivery, and our Legacytrained installation team’s experience provides confidence that your building will be installed safely, efficiently, and correctly.
Versatility
Legacy fabric structures are a cost-effective choice for a wide range of building needs. They can be:
- Open-air pavilion style or fully enclosed with or without insulation
- Designed from the ground up or as a retrofit to cover existing infrastructure
- Expanded in the future to accommodate growth or changing needs
Besides sheltering key processing equipment and processes, our buildings can serve multiple additional activities:
- Vehicle and equipment storage
- Maintenance shops
- Warehouses
- Mechanical facilities
- Treatment applications
- Climate-controlled indoor applications
100% Custom Design
Standardized building templates may seem efficient, but they virtually guarantee your building won’t meet all the needs of the intended use. Legacy customers always receive tailored solutions that fit the needs of the application. You can have the features you need plus the extras you want to create a safe, comfortable working environment:
- Clear spans of 300 feet or more in width with no interior obstructions
- Access points and any style doors for vehicles and personnel
- Straight walls allow easy access to every corner in bulk storage areas and efficiently accommodate warehouse racking
- Optional features such as mezzanines, catwalks, eaves, and gutters
- Passive ventilation keeps air fresh and reduces indoor condensation, mitigating corrosion, and minimizing maintenance
- Seamless envelope delivers an air and watertight seal and eliminates intrusion of moisture or other pollutants or contaminants
- Airtight interior can create negative interior pressure if needed, to keep odors or hazardous waste from escaping into the environment
Strength and Durability that Won't Quit
Legacy buildings are engineered to the same standards as traditional metal buildings, but with additional features that increase operational performance and efficiency.
Our solid steel I-beam construction is reliably strong and durable, proven to withstand harsh environmental conditions and weather extremes. The framework reliably supports heavy hanging loads such as cranes, conveyors, and specialized air handling equipment.
Our EpoxxiShieldTM suite of epoxy coatings ensures corrosion resistance that is far superior to hot-dip galvanizing in any environment, significantly reducing the need for maintenance and repairs.
Fabric is Naturally Better
Our proprietary ExxoTecTM fabric is exceptionally rugged, yet its flexibility makes it less vulnerable to impacts and abrasion. It is inherently fire-retardant and inert to corrosion. Our unique attachment system creates a seamless envelope impervious to moisture and other contaminants.
Fabric also creates a brighter, more pleasant, and energy-efficient working environment:
- Natural light–white fabric’s 12% translucence admits daylight through the walls and roof
- Thermally non-conductive–even in uninsulated buildings, indoor temperatures remain cooler in summer and warmer in winter
- Better acoustics–fabric doesn’t rattle or reverberate when it’s windy or rainy, and it helps absorb indoor noise
Minimal Maintenance
Our fabric buildings are engineered to last decades with little maintenance. The fabric exterior’s smooth surface rinses clean in the rain or snow, or with recommended cleaning methods recommended by our staff.
ROI
Legacy customers save money upfront with a high-quality structure delivered faster. Over time, the functional benefits of fabric and our construction techniques, minimal ongoing maintenance, and long building lifecycle add up to lower operating costs and exceptional ROI. You save time and money–a bottom-line benefit you can take to the bank.
Our Process
Whether you have a complete building spec or just an idea in mind, our team will lead you through the design process with expertise and efficiency.
Our in-house engineering team leads the charge on creative solutions that benefit all project stakeholders—namely you.
Legacy is an end-to-end manufacturer, meaning your project will be built right on site in our 87,000 sq ft facility in St. Cloud, MN.
Now to the good stuff. Your installation benefits from our safe, effective process in one of two ways—your Legacy rep onsite with local crews or full install services.
Case Study
Biomethane Production Office & Processing Building
19,200 sq ft Biomethane Waste-to-Energy Production Building
The Biomethane Facility features a tall peak for tipping trucks, a sealed envelope to contain odors, and clear-span space to store food waste for use.
View Case StudyAGC Automotive Storage
16,482 sq ft Automotive Storage Structure | Elizabethtown, KY
An automotive company in Elizabethtown, KY, installed a 160x100.5 ft fabric building on a steel frame to store large tooling and equipment.
View Case StudyBasin Electric Power Cooperative Bottom Ash Dewatering Facility
52,800 sq ft Coal-Fired Energy Plant Processing Remediation Building | Stanton, ND
The structure, built over a wastewater facility, protects equipment dewatering ash and features a ventilation system with six air replacements per hour.
View Case StudyBBE Hydro Vehicle Maintenance and Warehouse Buildings
30,800 sq ft Vehicle Maintenance and Warehouse Buildings | Thompson, MB
This Manitoba hydroelectric plant has a large, heated vehicle maintenance building and a twin next door serving as a warehouse.
View Case StudyMontezuma Manufacturing Warehouse
9,600 sq ft Automotive Component Manufacturing Warehouse | Montezuma, IA
This automotive warehouse features straight walls, a tall peak for racks, and a gutter system to manage water and protect the foundation.
View Case StudyTestimonials
It was a seamless process.
The crew was so professional, polite, on time and hardworking. It was amazing to see how much they got done. There were weather delays and they still finished early. It was a seamless process, and a pleasure to work with this group.
We were very impressed by their engineering team.
By today's standards, the buildings we're designing are of world-class caliber in the U.S. and Canada. Legacy offered several features that put them at the top of the list. They are unique among fabric buildings in that they build on a rigid steel frame. Everything looked good, from the eave and ridge ventilation system to the method for installing fabric panels. Combined with material delivery times and the time to construct, Legacy seemed like the perfect choice for our application. "The whole design is very efficient for our operations. Flexibility is key, especially when the building is a 'first of its kind' for the industry. We had one design change after the whole plan was in place, to widen our trapeze in the structure that supports the conveyor, and Legacy was able to make that change without any problem. The conveyor system fits and operates just as it was designed. "Legacy knew our schedule and saved us over 30 days of downtime. They stood the frames for the entire fabric structure in a single day, and everything - conveyors, electrical, fabric - was completed within five weeks of them coming to the site. It was a Herculean effort on Legacy's part. It was fantastic. They have a very passionate team, from top to bottom. In all respects, from design to pricing to production, Legacy is one of the best building contractors I've ever worked with. I look forward to working with them again.
We had a great working relationship with Legacy
A lot of the temporary structures in the region are fabric structures, so we mainly looked at those types of buildings. Due to the overall project timeline, the buildings had to be constructed in the dead of winter. We had a great working relationship with Legacy throughout the entire process. They supply a very high quality fabric structure, and we're certainly pleased with what we've seen from the buildings thus far.
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Partnerships Equal Structural Integrity
Whatever your industry, project, and desired application, the Legacy team of engineers will make your vision a reality. Start your project with the team who will finish strong—like our partnership.