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BEHLEN Steel Buildings BEHLEN Frameless Steel Buildings
The ideal solution for buildings requiring significant clear-span, exceptional energy-efficiency, and it's 100% a Product of Canada.
BEHLEN Frameless Competitive Advantages
- Quick & Easy Erection: Our bolt-together system allows for fast and easy assembly without the need for heavy equipment or specialized labor. This helps you save on erection costs and makes our Frameless buildings ideal for remote locations.
- Energy Efficient: Our buildings are designed for maximum energy efficiency. The uniform wall insulation minimizes heat loss, and a unique design eliminates the need for heating the space between the ceiling and roof. Our Frameless buildings are compatible with up to R60 insulation, and the ceiling panel laps are sealed, effectively creating a vapour barrier.
- Cost-Saving Foundation Design: Our Frameless buildings are designed to spread the structure’s weight evenly across the entire footprint. This innovative design significantly reduces the need for costly foundation pilings, allowing clients to save approximately 15% on foundation costs. Savings can be even greater in poor soil conditions.
- Clear Span/Roof: Our Frameless buildings can be built with a clear span of up to 100m (328’), with zero structural elements or interior columns.
- Aesthetically Pleasing Design: When designing a BEHLEN Frameless building, there are nearly limitless options for interior and exterior walls, including (but not limited to) brick, stucco, glass, block, or metal cladding.
- Future Expansion: Our Frameless buildings are designed in a way that allows for expansions in length at any time.
- Engineering Costs: All Frameless buildings are supported by our skilled engineering department. This cost is included in the price of the building.
- Exceptional Durability: Constructed with heavy-gauge corrugated panels, our Frameless buildings are designed for superior durability. The robust walls offer enhanced protection against demanding conditions and accidental impact, providing lasting performance and peace of mind.
Frameless Steel Building: Structural Components
- Sidewall Cladding
- Roof Panel
- Base
- Gable Cover
- Footing Channel
- Gutter Eave Flashing
- Endwall Cladding
- Ceiling Panel
- Convex Truss System
Air flow in different roof systems
- Frameless
- Conventional
Clean Ceiling and Attic System
Natural ceiling providing a bright clean interior allows for fewer light units and lower energy bills. Natural ceiling means no exposed roof trusses, while providing a bright clean interior with high reflectivity.
This allows for a reduction in the lighting requirements resulting in reduced energy costs. Our obstruction-free interiors offer easy climate control, which also delivers lower operating costs for our customers.
The attic cavity can easily accommodate inexpensive, blown-in insulation with an R-Value up to R60 which offers excellent protection against extreme heat or cold.
Additionally, the ventilated attic helps deliver lower energy bills and eliminates the risk of wet, saturated insulation.
Foundation & Erection Process
The BEHLEN FRAMELESS wall system uniformly transfers the load to the foundation eliminating expensive, heavy foundations, piers and columns, found with other buildings methods. No heavy lifting equipment is required for erection, since there is no structural steel.
- Ceiling Attic System
- CONVEX Roof
- DUBL PANEL Roof
- SINGLE PANEL Roof
Benefits of our Roof & Ceiling System
Our Frameless technology delivers lower energy costs because of its uniquely versatile roof system.
- Roof system consists of corrugated roof and ceiling panels, joined by a light weight, bolt together truss.
- Roof system provides a ventilated attic that lowers energy cost and eliminates the potential for wet insulation caused by condensation or leaks in light gauge roof cladding found in other building systems.
- Air movement is provided through die stamped louvers in end panels.
- In more extreme environments, mechanical ventilation can be easily incorporated.
- Attic cavity easily accommodates cost effective blown in insulation.
- Sealer applied on ceiling panel seam lines creates a vapor barrier and on roof panel seam lines provides a weather tight system.
- The cavity can also accommodate wiring, HVAC duct work and pipes.
- Unlike other construction methods, attic trusses can be designed for varying load by changing the gauges. This allows the roof system to accommodate heavy loading capacity roof equipment; there is no need to change the building’s interior or exterior dimensions.
Convex
Ideally suits to rinks, arenas and other recreational facilities. The frameless convex style offers surprisingly low-cost construction for clear spans up to 100 metres.
A lightweight strut system separating the roof and ceiling provides partial load stability. Electrical lines can be hidden in the attic area, providing clean, clear surfaces for maximum appeal.
Insulating the attic is simple with the use of blown-in materials.
- Cost effective design allows for low construction cost
- Energy efficient attic
- Roof system can be designed and installed on other conventional load bearing wall systems
- Roof can accommodate heavy roof equipment
DUBL-PANL & DUBL-PANL Cantilever
Our flat roof systems offer clear spans of up to 350′ (106.7m), with the option of cantilevering up to half of the building’s with no structural sleet columns.
The DUBL-PANL roof is composed of two separate, continuous chords of steel panels, joined by a lightweight strut assembly. Both are long-wearing. A factory-applied finish of durable “silicone Polyester” may be ordered too.
- Roof incorporates a slight slope to provide drainage
- Roof system can be designed and installed on other conventional load bearing wall systems
- Roof system can accommodate HVAC and other roof equipment
- System can incorporate interior beam and columns to achieve greater building widths
Single Panel
The Behlen Single Panel design is a simple economical method for building clear spans ranging to a maximum of 25 ot 7.6 metres.
Roof and wall panels bolt together to form a self-supporting structure. Wider spans can be achieved with the use of structural beams and columns.
The Single Panel system leads to considerable savings in construction time and materials.
The cost of a built-up roof is avoided, and the roof can be strapped and insulated with economical fiberglass bats and finished to any desired appearance.
For smaller commercial structures where construction efficiencies and budgets are the consideration, BEHLEN’s Single Panel design is the answer.
The pleasing look of the flat roof blends in well with modern industrial or commercial developments making it an excellent choice for workshops, garages and small commercial operations.
- Roof panel is supported by the FRAMELESS structural wall panel
- Can incorporate beam and column to expand wider
- Panel Details
- Wall System Insullation
Benefits to our Panel and Wall System
The entire system is manufactured from heavy gauge engineered panel with an exclusive roll from corrugation process that provides the structural integrity.
- 41″ wide panel are bolted together at 6″ intervals on the seam and footing channel with 3/8″ plated bolts.
- Walls and roof panel are manufactured from galvanized, galvalume or stainless steel depending on requirements and are available in a variety of colors in both 4 ½” and 71/2″ corrugation
- No heavy lifting equipment is required since there is no structural steel.
Our wall system uniformly transfers the load to the foundation eliminating expensive heavy foundations, piers and piles that are required with other building methods.
- Footing channel manufactured from galvalume material, eliminating potential for corrosion.
- Wall system can incorporate windows, overhead doors, glass, wood, pre-cast masonry abs cladding materials to provide creative design flexibility.