When you’re pricing a prefab steel building for a commercial or industrial job in the Southeast, the schedule usually depends less on the steel than on how long you wait for drawings, for anchor bolt reactions, and for answers when something comes up in the field. Moving fast comes down to how the steel building company you pick handles engineering, what it puts in the quote, and who you can get on the phone.
Maverick Steel Buildings is a red iron pre-engineered metal building (PEMB) company in Jefferson, Georgia, and we work with general contractors and businesses building 5,000 sf and up. Maverick is a one stop shop providing engineering, detailing, manufacturing, and erection services. Below is how we handle the parts of a commercial PEMB job that tend to matter most to a GC: drawings, what’s in the quote, who you talk to, how we work with general contractors, and loads.
How Fast Can You Get Drawings for a Steel Building?
As of October 2026, our drawings typically come back in two to four weeks, depending on how complex the building is. Anchor bolt reactions usually come back in a day or two, and sometimes the same day, so the concrete crew can size the piers and footings before the final set is done. If you need foundation plans, Maverick can provide those too, typically with a one to two week turnaround.
That turnaround comes from who does the work. Our engineers and detailers are our own employees, so a request for reactions or a revision goes straight to people who work on Maverick jobs. Every building goes through three checks before you see approval drawings: the salesperson designs it, our detailers finish what the software can’t and take out as much weight as they can while keeping it strong, and our engineer reviews the connections, fasteners, splices, and anchor bolt layouts against code.
Your quote comes with a 30-40 page drawing set showing the clearance from the bottom of the beams to finished floor at each frame line, column and base plate widths, beam depths, and every wall. We also send a DWG, DXF, or CAD file so the architect or your precon team can lay it over the architecturals and check column locations instead of checking them by eye, which tends to cut down on the questions that would otherwise come back to us during bidding.
When a customer building a 10,000 sf marine shop needed permit drawings, we took the preliminary set we’d already drawn for his quote and had our engineer stamp it for permit only the same day.
What’s in a Maverick Quote?
Our quote covers the building, the engineering and detailing, insulation, roll-up and walk doors, stamped foundation plans, and erection, all from one company, and tax and freight are included in the price. If requested, we’ll also include what the job is going to need anyway, such as insulation, doors, and roof curbs, rather than quoting the bare minimum.
The foundation plans give pad, pier, and footing sizes, so you don’t have to hire a separate engineer who would also have to wait on the reactions. On commercial jobs with storefront, we frame and trim the opening so the storefront crew can measure it and set the unit without any extra construction to wait on.
Because the doors and insulation ship with the building, it’s typically weathertight once the steel is up, and the GC has one less vendor to manage.
We erect across Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina and into parts of Tennessee, Alabama, Virginia, and Kentucky, and we’ll travel farther for a job large enough to carry the cost.
Who Do I Talk to When Something Comes Up?
The person who designs and prices your building stays with you until it’s finished, is your single point of contact, and can fix most problems without handing them off. If something comes up on a drawing or on site, we work on fixing it first and sort out why it happened afterward.
That holds on complex work, too. Crane beams, steeples, towers, radius corners, heavy rooftop unit loads, and 40′ and 45′ bays all managed by through your salesperson.
You can see more on finished buildings, including a 27,600 sf crane-served marine service building and showroom, a 12,150 sf shop, warehouse, and office, and an 8,400 sf showroom and service building.
How Do You Work With General Contractors?
We sell buildings to general contractors, and the aim is to give the GC one less headache on the job. On commercial work, that means acting as a consultant on the PEMB. A job is usually 80 to 90% planned by the time it reaches us, but details like wall panel type, horizontal or trapezoidal, and roof and wall insulation are often still open, because a PEMB has its own terms and most design firms don’t work with them every day. Your salesperson helps the GC and the owner decide what the building needs instead of just pricing what’s on the drawings, and that starts with asking what the owner actually wants, since what is included in the bid will have an effect on the overall look and utility of the finished building. Pricing a standard PBR panel may not create the look the customer wants from their building. On an auto shop talking through whether there are lifts and where they’ll go can make the building more functional and easier to lease later on. If something in the architect’s drawings would make the PEMB cost more or take longer than it needs to, our salespeople are trained to help you spot it.
Can You Engineer for Snow, Wind & Seismic Loads?
We can engineer to any standard, and each building is engineered to the governing building code and the snow, wind, and seismic loads for its job and location. Meeting the code is the starting point, though. The goal is a building that’s fully up to spec without carrying steel it doesn’t need, because extra weight is extra cost for the GC and the owner.
Our detailers take out as much weight as they can while keeping the building as strong as it needs to be, and our engineers then check the connections, splices, and anchor bolt layouts against code, so the savings don’t come at the expense of the spec. Because the engineers work for Maverick, your salesperson can take a question about loads or framing straight to them while the building is still being designed.
What Helps Us Price Your Building
The more we know up front, the better the quote fits the job. These help most:
- Architectural drawings or the bid package, if there is one
- Wall panel type and roof and wall insulation, or what the owner wants the building to look like
- Door sizes and locations, since on a hangar the door specs set the building width
- Clear height needs, like vehicle and lift heights in a shop
- The site’s location, so the building is engineered to the right code and loads
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Send us your drawings or your dimensions, and we’ll come back with an all-in quote and a drawing set you can check against your plans. Use Price Your Building to get started, or give us a call at 706-979-6303. Come with questions.
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