59: POST FRAME BUILDINGS

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Post Frame Stable Building

Hi I am looking for some guide prices. I am looking to put up a large building to turn into a stable block for my Livery business. Your Steel frame building could be ideal 62 feet wide 120 feet long i would need 2 entrance doors each end Aprox 6feet wide by 8 feet high. Clear roof lights would also be required this is a rough idea so understand it would be a very rough price guide

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Post Frame Building - Embedded Posts

I'm a estimator and consultant for ASW Associates out of Nebraska. We have a job up by Niabrara in Nebraska. Through your website, and NFBA web-site, I could not find anything on how you protect frost from reaching under the concrete floor slab if an Engineered Wood Post Framed Building is built and is heated. I have seen on your website commercial applications of Wood Post Framed Buildings and your located in Minnisota, where frost heaving is as bad as in Nebraska. Standard foundation construction with 42" deep footings and 2" dow foam around perimeter I am fully familiar with. I have also seen where they have used a 8" wide trencher and went from post to post in post beam construction and installing 2" foam again and pouring the rest w/ concrete. There is also what they call shallow footing protection, it's been done in NW Iowa where 2" foam is laid flat 4 ft in around interior perimeter, and 2 ft horizontal around exterior of building. What is your recommendation, conventional construction of foundation for said purposes, where post are anchored to top of footing perimeter w/ Column Sockets and anchor bolts, or do you have another proven way of doing it with embedded posts? I would appreciate anything that you could give me on recommendations or advice.