ENGINEERED TO LAST. DESIGNED TO IMPRESS.

Turnkey metal building solutions that save schedules,
beat budgets, and exceed expectations

YOUR PROJECT. OUR KNOW-HOW.

For 45 years, Reich Construction LLC has been one of the few design-build firms in the country where a licensed architect leads every project from day one.

We specialize in pre-engineered steel buildings for commercial and industrial applications, combining design intelligence with construction expertise to deliver turnkey solutions that are faster, smarter, and built last.

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Prefabricated Steel Buildings – Commercial Steel Building Contractors DC, MD, VA, Nationwide

We Handle The Full Metal Building Construction Cycle From Design, To Permitting, To Construction

We design and erect pre-engineered metal buildings for clients throughout the US. After 40 years and thousands of metal building projects, we have systems in place to ensure your pre-engineered steel building is a success.

From pre-fab steel buildings for schools and grow houses, to custom designed steel buildings for the automotive industry, retail outlets, agricultural, storage facilities, and more, we design and install commercial metal and steel buildings anywhere in the country.

From the local permitting for custom steel buildings, to the budgeting guidance, right through design, full steel building construction, and completion, we manage each and every step of the process.

As an architect-led steel building design & construction fIrm, we work with clients across all industry spectrums to deliver structures to meet their exact needs, from warehouses and grow houses, to medical clinics, multi-use sports complexes and office buildings to one-of-a-kind retreat centers and glass enclosed houses of worship – no matter what your location in the U.S. we handle every step from permitting, to design and completion.

Build

Deliver

Design

We bring architect-led design expertise to every pre-engineered steel building project – a distinction that sets us apart in the commercial and industrial construction industry. We manage every phase of the process – design, engineering, procurement, and construction – under one roof, so our clients always have a single point of contact and a clear line of accountability.

Whether it’s warehouses, distribution centers, manufacturing facilities, or data centers, our licensed architects develop custom building designs tailored to your operational needs, site conditions, and budget.

A 60,000 sq. ft. pre-engineered steel building.

With 45 years of experience constructing pre-fabricated steel buildings nationwide, we deliver projects with the precision and efficiency that conventional construction methods can’t match, making us the preferred design-build contractor for warehouse, distribution, and manufacturing facilities.

Our integrated design-build approach means the same team that designs your facility builds it – eliminating the gaps, delays, and miscommunication that occur when design and construction are handled separately.

A 60,000 sq. ft. pre-engineered steel building.

Every project is managed by our core team from groundbreaking through final inspection, ensuring consistent quality and accountability at every phase. Delivering a completed building is only part of what we provide.

From the first site consultation to the final walkthrough, our goal is a seamless project experience and a building that performs for decades.

BUTLER Manufacturing

BUTLER ManufacturingTM

SETTING THE STANDARD

Our partnership with Butler Manufacturing™ is rooted in a shared belief: buildings should do more than stand the test of time—they should help the people who rely on them every day. Together, we bring forward-thinking design, proven systems, and a commitment to craftsmanship that helps our clients build with confidence.

Butler is a recognized leader in innovative building solutions, and we’re proud to align with a brand that pairs pioneering engineering with practical performance. Their systems are backed by decades of experience and a culture of continuous improvement. That means every project we deliver benefits from advanced technology, precision manufacturing, and a legacy of doing things right.

BUILT BETTER

As a Butler Builder®, we combine our local expertise and hands-on support with the strength and resources of a proven building system. We bring decades of experience—from concept to completion—where quality, accountability, and long-term value lead the way.

We believe great partnerships are built on trust, humility, and a relentless commitment to improvement. Working alongside Butler Manufacturing™, we’re able to offer sophisticated building solutions that remain approachable and tailored to your needs. It’s not just about constructing facilities. It’s about creating spaces that work harder, last longer, and help your business move forward.

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This week Bruno is out in Charlottesville in 100-degree August heat, sealing up 15 large roof curbs on a standing seam roof. Each curb represents a penetration through the roof plane — and each one is a potential leak point. The curbs on this project are the retrofit variety: installed after the roof is in place, which means cutting openings in the panels, sliding the curb underneath the uphill sheets and over the downhill sheets, fitting closures around the standing seams, and sealing everything with mastic and caulk before fastening it down. It's a precise, time-consuming process, and its long-term reliability depends entirely on every bead of caulk and every neoprene washer holding up year after year. The preferred approach is simpler and more durable: curbs manufactured to match the standing seam module, designed to wrap into the seams and set in place as the roof is being installed. No cutting, no patching, no closures fitted around existing seams. The curb goes down with the roof, the seams integrate with the curb geometry, and the result doesn't rely on caulk and screws to stay watertight. With 15 curbs on a single roof, the difference in long-term maintenance between the two approaches is significant. Specifying the right curb at the right time — before the roof goes on — is one of those decisions that costs nothing extra and pays for itself many times over.
Reich Construction - Standing Seam Roof Curbs in Charlottesville, VA
This week we're back at a recycling facility in Charlottesville, Virginia that we erected a few months ago, this time to address the framing needed to support 11 loading dock positions along one side of the building. Each position requires a dock shelter, dock leveler, truck restraint system, and bumpers. When the structure wasn't originally designed to accommodate that hardware, we came back to add what was needed. The retrofit process involved removing the siding at each opening, adding framing around the doors, installing a header across the top, and fitting two layers of fire-rated plywood to create a continuous attachment zone for the dock shelter contractor. We went that route because dock shelter manufacturers often can't provide exact bolt locations in advance — giving them a full field to attach to is simply the more practical solution. It worked well, and the building is now properly set up for the dock equipment. The bigger takeaway is that when this kind of coordination happens during design, the framing goes in with the building and there's nothing to retrofit.
Reich Construction - Metal Building Dock Shelter Retrofit in Charlottesville, VA
This week Bruno is at EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin — one of the world's largest airshows — meeting with clients looking to build aircraft hangars. Hangars are straightforward metal buildings in most respects, but the doors are an engineering category of their own. After evaluating the options, we've zeroed in on Powerlift Hydraulic Doors as the manufacturer we're confident can handle roughly 90% of the hangar projects we encounter nationwide. Their doors are self-supporting, integrate cleanly into a metal building frame, and come in under most competing systems on both first cost and long-term maintenance. The standard frame for doors up to 20 feet tall and 60 feet wide uses 5x3 rectangular tube steel posts — wall thickness scaled to whatever the existing jamb condition can handle, from ¼" where we can weld to a heavy I-beam, up to ⅜" where the jamb has little inherent strength. The header is a 5" square tube tied into drop columns or channel iron across the top of the opening. On T-hangar applications where the door frame is doing structural work, a truss is built on top of the header to carry roof purlins directly. The pivot points run bronze bushings, greased once at assembly and never again — Bruno ran an accelerated wear test on a lathe at 17 RPM for a week and calculated the equivalent of opening and closing the door once a day for over 2,300 years before measurable wear. Zero maintenance is not a marketing claim here. It's math.
Reich Construction - Metal Building Hangars in Oshkosh, WI
This week we're wrapping up a 30x40 light gauge steel utility building on a small farm in Mount Airy. The structure is built entirely from roll-formed shapes: 14" wide, 11-gauge roll-form channels at the door openings and corners, doubled up to form the main frame columns, with matching roll-form beams and knee braces at the ceiling. Wall girts are 4" roll-formed Z-sections, which is notably shallower than the 8" girts you'd find on a conventional PEMB, while the roof purlins run the standard 8" depth you'd expect for a building this size. Rounding it out is a simple mezzanine framed from 6" Z-shaped roll-form purlins with a ¾" CDX plywood deck on top — an inexpensive way to pick up usable storage without a complicated structure. Roll-formed shapes come off a single machine in the factory, making them faster and less expensive to produce than the welded plate assemblies used in conventional pre-engineered steel. A standard PEMB column is built up from a web and two flanges made of quarter to half-inch plate steel, continuously welded and tapered to match the load diagram. Light gauge skips all of that. For a building in the 1,000 to 3,000 square foot range, that tradeoff makes sense. For anything approaching 10,000 square feet or more, we'd steer you toward a conventional PEMB due to the demand on the loads and spans.
Reich Construction - Cold Formed Metal Building Erection in Mount Airy MD
This week we're out in Union Bridge, Maryland working on an old Butler Farmstead building from the 1960s. It's a 40x36 structure with a 12-foot eave, about as elemental as a pre-engineered steel building gets: a main frame every 12 feet, roll-formed Z-shaped purlins at 5-foot spacing, and Butler's signature rib panel on the outside. Sixty-plus years later, the structure is sound. The panel held up. And with a re-roof and new insulation, this building is looking at another 50 to 60 years of service life. The re-roof spec starts with WMP-50 vinyl-faced fiberglass insulation going in over the existing framing, followed by new Galvalume panels on the roof. Galvalume costs significantly less than painted panel, lasts just as long, and on a roof where no one sees it, the tradeoff is straightforward. The existing wall panels are staying, and Butler still manufactures that same rib profile today, now with a Kynar 500 / Hylar 5000 PVDF finish that resists chalking, fading, cracking, and splitting and carries a 25-year warranty. In practice, you'll get closer to 50. These buildings were built to last, and with the right maintenance and re-cladding, they do exactly that.
Reich Construction - Metal Building Reroof in Union Bridge, MD
This week we're looking at a detail that doesn't get enough attention: the concrete wainscot on a 6,000 square foot shop building. Most PEMB siding — R-panel, Stylwall, FW-120 — is the right call for cost and speed, but in industrial and work environments, metal siding takes a beating at ground level. A concrete wainscot is a smart upgrade, and this one is a good example of how to do it right. The best decision made here was sizing the wainscot to match the width of the wall girts, typically 8" to 8½" depending on the manufacturer, so the concrete face sits flush with the steel framing behind it. That alignment makes insulation straightforward and eliminates the need for custom flashings. Detailing a brick veneer or oversized wainscot that projects beyond the girt line sounds minor until the concrete isn't perfectly plumb; then you're fabricating custom cap flashings to cover a wall that doesn't quite meet the steel above it. There's also a saw cut visible at one of the overhead door openings where the rough opening came in off-dimension. This is a common issue, since concrete simply doesn't hold the tolerances steel does. The one weak point on this build is the base flashing, which is already deflecting and leaving gaps at the bottom of the siding — the right flashing for this condition returns back under the siding panel and seals the joint properly.
Reich Construction - Metal Building Concrete Wainscot in Cloquet, MN
This week's footage speaks for itself. What you're watching is the payoff of a method we've been developing at our own shop: framing the entire roof assembly on the ground, then lifting it into place in a single crane pick. A rigger guides the structure as the crane moves, making fine adjustments before the roof is set onto its posts and welded permanently into position. No man lifts. No framing at height. Just a cleaner, safer, more controlled installation. This is a trial run — intentionally. We're building the process here at the shop so our crews are comfortable executing it before we bring it to client projects. The benefits carry over whether the roof is conventional steel or pre-engineered: better accuracy, lower equipment costs, and the ability to install insulation and soffit on the ground before the roof ever goes up.
Reich Construction - Modularized Roof Installation in Columbia, MD
This week we're expanding our own office, a custom steel structure framed entirely from surplus material left over from previous jobs. The main columns are 8x8x⅜" HSS tube steel, the secondary columns and floor framing are wide flange, and the floor is a poured-in-place concrete slab with Nelson studs welded to the steel framing and #5 rebar at 12" on center each way. The exterior is clad in 3" insulated metal panels, delivering roughly R-21 and going up fast, clean, and with a finished interior appearance right out of the box. One of the more distinctive choices on this build is how we're handling the roof. Rather than framing it in place at height, we built the entire roof assembly on the ground — all main framing, purlins, and sub-framing — then welded six lift lugs into the structure. A crane with two spreader bars and six chain hoists will lift it to pitch and set it directly onto the six posts below. It's safer, more precise, and doesn't require expensive elevated equipment to frame. That's the kind of thinking that comes from building the same way you'd want someone to build for you.
Reich Construction - Surplus Steel Office Expansion in Columbia, MD
This week we're back in Palm Beach Gardens. The building is nearly complete, but a rafter beam was discovered with a bent bottom flange, likely the result of an impact after installation. The owner wasn't willing to accept a partial repair, requiring the entire beam to be removed and replaced. This is a procedure we don't take lightly, and one that has to be engineered correctly from the start to avoid compromising the rest of the structure. This kind of repair is where decades of field experience matter most. Our team built a full shoring system using salvaged jobsite steel to support the purlins, designed a temporary column with blocking to carry the load while the beam is out, and deployed three telehandlers and two man lifts to maneuver the beam safely and work both ends simultaneously. We've seen other contractors attempt this kind of repair without proper engineering and end up with a sagging or collapsing roof. Knowing how steel behaves under real-world stress isn't something you learn from a manual — it's something you earn over 45 years in the field.
Reich Construction - Metal Building Beam Replacement in Palm Beach Gardens, FL
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