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Legacy - Tension Fabric Cladding Structure
Properly engineered and constructed, fabric cladding has an extended life span in contrast to metal cladding. The proper steel finishes can continue to extend the life of your investment, but it’s more than just longevity the material’s properties bring to each project it influences.
Earth’s oldest energy source—the sun—is leveraged just right. White fabric cladding has natural translucency of up to 12%, allowing sunlight to flood into your structure. Using natural light has several advantages in fabric buildings over trying to brighten a dark building with artificial lighting, the most desirable being cost savings as fewer lights are needed in the building.
Fabric also has non-conductive properties, meaning it doesn’t transfer heat or cold like other materials, such as steel or concrete. The inside of a tension fabric building, even an uninsulated one, feels cooler on hot days and warmer on cold days.
Fabric is naturally inert to corrosion. This makes these buildings especially popular for customers storing corrosive materials, including salt, fertilizer, and mining chemicals. Steel frames need to be protected when storing materials that have corrosive properties, and Legacy’s epoxy-coated steel offers better corrosion protection than hot-dipped galvanizing.
Strength & Resilience
The proprietary fabric we use, ExxoTec™, is so tough, we can install our structures in Florida, the Andes Mountains, and northern Alberta. It’s more resistant to sun over the long run and much stronger than polyethylene. In fact, it’s so tough, we offer warranties on all our fabric cladding.