Haz-Safe hazardous material buildings by design for strongest explosion proof, fire rated & high-security structures typical for Chemical, Pharmaceutical, Petroleum, Food and Defense Industries:

What Does Haz-Safe Buildings have to offer?

In simple terms, Haz-Safe Buildings are the sum of its basic component, which is tubular steel. Haz-Safe Buildings' exclusive use of hollow structural sections (HSS) or "box" tube steel for fabrication is stronger (higher-strength-to-weight-ratio) than any other building component. Its strength is uniformly consistent along its entire length because it is formed four-sided, not like two-sided angles or three-sided common wall studs. Horizontal and vertical tube steel structural members are continuously welded where joined. For example, in the roof/wall corners where two horizontal 4" x 4" roof tubes come together at the right angle and connect on top of a 2" x 4" corner vertical wall tube, there are 20 continuous inches of weld! Tube steel's surface is smoother than channel or angle steel, therefore cleaner and easier to finish and its radius edges are architecturally friendly and aesthetically appealing.

Broadly speaking, one can design a building to meet the necessary technical disciplines for being blast rated, or to make a building fire rated or sound rated or super insulated. By themselves, all of these disciplines have to be carefully thought out. But, combine some or all these disciplines into one and the same structure, and it becomes harder. Haz-Safe Buildings easily accomplishes this without compromising the safety of the workers using the building. Look at this another way. It is relatively easy to make a building as just a hazmat-or as just a refrigerator or freezer-or hot box-or an engine test cell, but the real trick is to combine hazmat disciplines with any other discipline. Now, add into this a mix a requirement for any or all of the above to be pre-manufactured and to be in multiple modules to be shipped in separate shrink-wrapped units and reassembled outside or inplant at the user's site anywhere in the world. Haz-Safe Buildings does all of that and more, utilizing high quality materials, the latest components and patented features.

Haz-Safe Buildings by Design prefabricates Factory Mutual (FM) Approved liftable steel buildings and design/build solutions to help clients' architects and engineers achieve compliance with complex safety and environmental regulations as they isolate and contain chemical threats from spills and releases during processing, testing, mixing, dispensing, storage, and enclosing manufacturing areas utilizing hazardous materials. Haz-Safe designs fully custom enclosures functionally easy to use while providing secondary containment for ground water protection, safeguarding workers, meeting fire and safety codes, complying with all regulations, and minimizing liabilities. Given that governments impose increasingly harsh penalties due to release of hazardous materials, a strategy demonstrating active compliance is isolation in Haz-Safe buildings.

Haz-Safe has many more innovative features:

1. The strongest enclosures that meet the most stringent structural requirements to create mission-specific “high performance” space ready to “plug in” to your available real estate and existing utility connections.
   
   
2. Designed-in, time saving, productivity conscious material handling hardware and systems.
   
   
3. A modular building system so as your business grows, your Haz-Safe building space expands to what you make it to be.

Haz-Safe buildings exceed all federal, state, and local regulations and codes, utilizing appropriate sections of the requirements of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Building Officials & Code Admin. (BOCA), National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), Standard Building and Fire Prevention Codes (SBFPC), Uniform Building Code (UBC), Uniform Fire Code (UFC), and the National Electrical Codes (NEC). Manufacturing exceeds ASTM, AWS, and AISI standards, while every building receives a certification from the Atlantic Inland Electrical Inspection Agency and is Factory Mutual Approved for Class Number 6049 per NFPA 30.

Haz-Safe clients include industrial, institutional, government, and military. These clients prefer prompt order processing, administration, delivery, and savings in the initial investment compared to loss of time and inconvenience with conventional construction. Major on-site revamps can incur unforeseen construction costs, large staging areas, waste, tool and material theft, interruptions, and delays. Haphazard “as needed” additions result in overall poor utilization of space, shaky structural integrity, and questionable compliance with the law of the land.