Steel and Wood Frame Buildings

Steel and wood frame buildings from Elgin Service Center K-Buildings and Sentinel Building Systems protect your crops and equipment throughout the year.

The demands of agriculture and grain storage require tough, rugged storage facilities. Foster Equipment Sales offers strong, all-steel and wood/steel pre-engineered frame buildings by reputable, established businesses Elgin Service Center and Sentinel Building Systems. These businesses manufacture superior quality agricultural buildings that are affordable, easy to erect, engineered to meet local building codes, and structurally sound. They are also customizable based on the purchaser's needs and tastes, as well as the purchaser's specific building codes and specific wind and snow loads, no matter how demanding.

Elgin Service Center has been designing and engineering top-flight farm storage buildings for 20 years. In addition to being functional and attractive, their K-Buildings are spacious enough to accommodate machinery, livestock, grain, and hay bales. Their building specifications are as follows:

Widths: 24', 30', 40', 50', 60', 70', 80'
Lengths: 15' Bays
Sidewall heights: 2' increments, starting at 8'
Roof pitch: 3/12 Pitch
Three types of foundations to choose from: Pier foundation, monoslab foundation, and foundation wall
K-Building standard 5/8" mainframe & 1/2" endwall frame anchor bolts
Steel main and endwall frames
Steel wind bracing rods
2' X 6' X 16' #1 yellow pine purlins located 2' on center
2' X 6' X 16' #1 yellow pine girts located 41-1/2' on center
29 Gauge ASTM-A792 Galvalume steel covering with 95,000 PSI yield-minimum
Covering painted with a baked, siliconized polyester paint
Three types of doors: Single and double sliding doors, overhead doors, and bi-fold doors
Custom building sizes available

For further customization, Foster Equipment Sales has a number of additional K-Building options available, including:

Walkdoors
Windows
Cupolas
Gable vents
Ridge lite
Insulation
Interior liner
Porches
Lean-to
Overhang
Screw package
Wainscot
Translucent panels
Offset ridge
Vapor barrier
Lofts

Like Elgin Service Center, Sentinel Building Systems has recently celebrated its 20th anniversary, and it still continues to grow. Foster Equipment Sales is proud to represent a company with customer service and workmanship that can best be described as superb. Sentinel steel frame agricultural buildings boast the following features:

All steel construction, with steel weight calculated by Sentinel engineers
Painted walls and trim
Galvalume roof sheets
Hemmed edge building trim
Several types and weights of insulation available
Fitted foam closures at the eave and base on all Sentinel buildings
Engineered for specific building codes and specific wind and snow loads
A choice of 20 wall colors and 20 trim colors backed by a 25-year warranty
All buildings can be customized to include doors, windows, ceiling lights, and more

Because Sentinel Buildings does not provide foundations, Foster Equipment Sales is happy to assist customers with finding a foundation engineer able to complete certified foundation plans based on local water table considerations and soil quality and type.