Tools
Four calculators covering the decisions that set the cost of a rigid frame building: frame configuration, span, design loads, and bay spacing. Free, no sign-up, and every result is a link you can send to somebody.
The one to start with
Width, eave height, and crane load in; the right frame configuration out, with what the runner-up would have cost.
Open the tool →The numbers nobody publishes
Framing steel in lb/sf and package and installed cost per square foot, with a breakdown of which input is driving the number.
Open the tool →Before you ask for a quote
Wind speed, ground snow, and seismic design category for 50 US metros, plus the local condition that catches people out.
Open the tool →The cheap decision to get right
20 vs 25 vs 30 vs 35 ft bays compared on cost, and why snow load is what actually decides it.
Open the tool →What these are and are not. Planning-stage estimate calibrated to published industry ranges. Not a substitute for a stamped design by a licensed engineer. They exist to get you close enough to hold a useful conversation with a manufacturer, to sanity-check a quote you have already received, and to tell you which decision is worth arguing about. A stamped design is a different thing, and you need one.