“Steel buildings are economical, recyclable, built strong, built to last, and can be delivered and installed at a faster pace than other materials,” says Jason Gullett, the founder and president of Prestige Steel. Steel building also has “green characteristics,” Jason adds. Not only are metal buildings recyclable and durable, but when strategically designed, they can also contribute to a building’s improved energy efficiency. In doing so, they can reduce the number of materials necessary for the building envelope, making them often more cost-effective than other non-metal construction materials. Jason was personally drawn to steel building early on his career. His father owned a larger construction company that did prefabricated buildings, and Jason started working with him at about 14-years-old. He later spent a few years working at a construction rental company, before returning to the world of prefabrication and forming Prestige Steel in 2011. From the start, Jason’s vision for Prestige was to work directly with commercial end-users. He also envisioned working with a variety of users, on projects ranging from 1,200 to 10,000 square feet. “We started off with boxes,” he recalls. “Well-insulated garages, THE CONSTRUCTION SOURCE CANADA “We started off with boxes,” he recalls. “Well-insulated garages, warehouses, workshops, truck stops. Then as we got more comfortable with that, we progressed into some more complex builds. For example, we built a luggage conveyor building at Pearson Terminal 3 – that was pretty complicated.”
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