Salt Domes, Salt Barns & Salt Storage Buildings
GNB Global manufactures a cost-effective selection of sand and salt storage buildings, salt domes, and salt barns to help our customers get buildings in place quickly and efficiently. Our salt storage buildings, sometimes called salt storage domes, can be used for projects ranging from smaller open-end structures to massive bulk salt storage facilities with multiple loading bays and generous overhead clearances for heavy equipment. The buildings range in width from 30′ to 200′ and can be installed as either temporary or permanent structures. We have helped the local independent contractor get their first road salt storage building in place. We have also worked with various municipal Departments of Transportation (DoT) to create comprehensive road maintenance facilities.
GNB Global offers a complete range of fabric buildings, from quick-delivery standard truss buildings to complex one-of-a-kind custom structures. The benefits of our fabric buildings are quick installation, flexible foundation options, lower operational costs, energy savings, naturally bright interiors, corrosion resistance, and the ability to relocate buildings.
We manufacture our buildings utilizing galvanized carbon steel frame trusses covered with an engineered high density polyethylene membrane. Our buildings are fabricated by local labor in our United States and Canadian manufacturing facilities, using raw materials sourced in North America.
Find out how GNB Global can help you build bigger, build faster, and build smarter today. Call us today at 1-866-696-6187 for a free consultation with the industry’s most experienced fabric building specialty contractors.
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Build Bigger
GNB Global’s tension fabric buildings are the largest, most affordable clear span buildings available on the market today. Standard building widths are available up to a massive 150’ wide, with custom building widths available up to 400’ or more. The modular truss and fabric panel design of our buildings allows them to be built to accommodate any length required.
Build Faster
GNB Global fabric buildings are designed for simple and quick installation so builders can complete projects faster, and owners can occupy buildings up to 50-70% faster than conventional construction. Once a project begins, the site crew can prepare the building foundation while we simultaneously fabricate the structure at our manufacturing plant.
Build Smarter
GNB Global’s tension fabric buildings are designed for versatility. Buildings can vary from simple open-end storage structures to fully enclosed, lined, insulated, and climate-controlled buildings. Smart features like our energy-saving translucent membrane that allows filtered daylight to light the interior sets the building apart from common steel buildings.
Why Choose GNB Global?
Unparalleled Safety & Installation
Daily safety briefings. Extensive personal protective equipment. From the beginning, our goal was to provide the highest quality fabric building installation. To ensure we achieved that goal, we built our installation team around a culture of safety with unparalleled certifications. The safety certifications GNB Global maintains allow our installers to work on North America’s most rigorous construction sites. The company’s safety certifications include:
- Avetta Member
- ComplyWorks
- Certified CSA A660
- ISNetworld Certified
- COR Workplace Safety Certificate of Recognition
Our Give A Sh!t Guarantee
A warranty is only as good as the company that stands behind it. At GNB, we say as we do and do as we say. GNB’s fabric buildings are backed by our Give A Sh!t Guarantee, a comprehensive 16-year warranty, and fulfilled by our unbeatable customer service.
Our tension fabric structures are built to last – if something goes wrong, we are there to fix it right away. In addition to our 16-year warranties on each new fabric cover, our five-year Preventative Maintenance Program deal gives you rigorous annual inspections, a 25% discount, immediate repairs to anchorage and fabric issues, and increased longevity.
Made In The United States & Canada
We proudly design, engineer, and fabricate our buildings with labor local to our manufacturing facilities in the United States and Canada.
Steel
Our trusses and steel components are manufactured from steel produced in American and Canadian refineries.
Membrane
NovaShield® II, our primary HDPE membrane, is manufactured in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Steel
You won’t find cheap Chinese, mass-produced metal here. Our trusses and steel components are manufactured from American and Canadian-made, cold-formed seamless carbon steel that conforms to the ASTM A500 standard with a 50 ksi (345 MPa) minimum yield point. On average, our steel is composed of 57% post-consumer recycled content and 31% pre-consumer recycled content.
Our fabricated steel truss components can be finished in a selection of coatings, including hot dip galvanized and powder coated to meet your project specifications.
Membrane
The standard architectural membrane material GNB Global employs is NovaShield® II with ArmorKote™, a Cradle to Cradle certified product. The membrane is available in several colors with either a standard 4 mil coating or a 4 mil flame retardant coating. The NovaShield scrim is produced in a special weaving pattern to enhance thickness, flatness, abrasion resistance, and tear properties. The proprietary coating improves abrasion resistance, flex resistance, seam strength, UV resistance, and longevity.
Other membrane options like HEYtex® PVC, Sheerfill® PTFE, and Shadeshure® HDPE are available.
Foundations
A variety of tension fabric building foundation options are available to meet your specific building requirements and budget. Temporary foundations, often more cost-effective, are a good choice for situations where the building and foundation will be removed in the future, leaving no trace. Temporary foundations include Hogan stakes, duckbill anchors, helical anchors or screw piles, ballast blocks, rig mats, and shipping containers. Permanent foundation options include poured-in-place piers, grade beam, and poured slab foundations.
