Commercial steel buildings now
Their various designs make metal buildings ideal choices for all your housing and storage needs, be they for a backyard shed or small airplane hangar. First, a quick history of metal buildings. During World War II, the Navy Seabees developed metal buildings to be used as lightweight housing and storage units that could be raised, torn down and transported quickly in the battlefield. These Quonset huts (as the metal buildings came to be known) were modeled after and modified from the original British Nissen hut semi cylindrical design with the addition of insulation, wooden linings and floors. These metal buildings were initially used for troop and equipment housing, but vertical sidewalls were eventually added to the structures to increase the amount of usable space for more diverse purposes such as bakeries, isolation wards, dental offices and showers.