The Tool Kit

This is the main page for the Tool Kit. From here you can jump to some information pages where you can view everything from an overview of a pre-engineered steel building to graphic depictions of both primary and secondary members. This is also the portal to our Prefabricated Metal Building Erection Manual, a handy guide that may be printed from any computer that can open a PDF file.

You can also navigate to calculators and conversion tools from this page. These tools are provided to assist you with your project planning or just to provide useful information related to the prefabricated steel building industry. While we have worked hard to ensure the accuracy of our calculators and conversion tools, we encourage you to follow the old carpenter's rule -- "measure twice and cut once". Make sure that you know how to use the tool and don't be afraid to double check our results. Here are the tools:

Concrete Slab Calculator

Gauge to Decimal Inch Conversion (for sheet steel, strip and tubing, aluminum and stainless steel)

Insulation Calculator (for gabled metal buildings)

Loan Payment Calculator

Metric to Metric Conversions

Numeric Fraction to Decimal Conversion

Panel Profiles (standard steel building panels)

Panel Square Foot Calculator (for PBR, PBA and PBU panels)

Thickness and Weights for Uncoated Steel

Typical Metal Building Construction Graphic

U.S. and Metric Conversion (length)

U.S. and Metric Conversion (area)

U.S. and Metric Conversion (volume)

U.S. and Metric Conversion (weights)



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