January 2014
| Business World Magazine | 57
It has been said that whatever good things we build, end-up building us. For a
company based in Morton, Illinois, the building of a legacy in the construction
trade has also contributed to the advancement of a building modality that once
only familiar to farmers, but due to its energy efficiency, cost effectiveness and
convenience in design flexibility and completion time, is a style now increasingly
sought by homeowners and commercial developers too.
A
pplications in post-frame
construction have signifi-
cantly evolved over eras
which saw some byproducts of this
building process simply referred to as
“pole barns,” in fact, such references,
however misconstrued, continue to
persist. Nonetheless, benefits abound
in this building system that involves
the utilization of structural framing
around strategically placed solid-
sawn posts or laminated columns as
