Author: Rural Builder Staff

Lightweight and versatile, cold-formed metal buildings require less substantial foundations than conventional red iron buildings and serve as excellent outbuildings for equipment storage, small manufacturing, machine shops, and...

Home improvement contractors who sell specialty services, such as siding and roofing replacements, need to generate lots of leads to make a sale. The same is true with contractors who sell and install garages, sheds, and...

Any building project that involves metal components will at some point require that metal to be manipulated. That’s where rollforming and metal forming come into place. Whether it’s being done on an industrial-grade machine on a...

In research released last Fall, the Metal Roofing Alliance reported that the housing market slowdown in 2023 caused a decline in the metal roofing market. That slight decline coincided, though, with an increase in the share of...

The post-frame construction market is primarily centered in rural America, which also means that companies engaged in post-frame construction are also likely taking on other building types. Rural builders need to be flexible....

Companies serving the rural construction market fill a unique niche in the construction industry. Agricultural buildings – often the mainstay of the rural  builder – are different from commercial or other buildings....