About i30 Metal Buildings
i30 Metal Buildings is the metal building division of i30 Builders LLC. We are a commercial general contractor working the I-30 corridor from Fort Worth to Texarkana and East Texas out to Marshall.
How we work
We don't disappear.
One principal, start to finish
The person who quotes your building is the person who runs it. No handoff to a project manager you have never met after the contract is signed.
Written scope, lump sum
One number against a document you can read. Not cost-plus, not a pile of allowances that turn into change orders in month four.
The punch list gets finished
The last two percent of a job is where most contractors go quiet. That is the part we are known for. It is why the phone still rings.
What we build
Commercial from 1,500 SF of finished space. Homes from 2,000 SF of living area. Under that, a kit supplier will beat us on price and you should let them.
Commercial and industrial
- Warehouses and distribution
- Retail strip centers
- Multi-tenant commercial
- Industrial shops
- Flex, office in front and warehouse behind
- Self-storage
- Agricultural: hay barns, equipment storage, livestock, processing
Shell $27 - $68 per SF. Turnkey $60 - $165 per SF. The bigger the building, the lower the rate.
Barndominiums
- Shop-houses
- Garage bays and attached shops
- Open plans under high ceilings
- Covered porches
- Custom windows
Dried-in shell $62 - $78 per SF. Finished $118 - $225 per SF, set by the finish level you pick.
Specialty structures
- Churches
- Distilleries
- Event venues
- Greenhouses
- Resort pool cabanas and covered pavilions
- Aircraft hangars
- Covered riding arenas
Finished cabanas and covered pavilions $115 - $210 per SF. Every connection is out in daylight, so there is nowhere to hide bad steel.
We don't take repairs, service calls, sheds, carports or kit-only steel drops. If the steel is all you want, a supplier is the right call. If you want one contractor from the slab to the final finish, that's us.
How a job runs
From the first call to the punch list
Call
Ten minutes on the phone tells us both whether this is worth a drive. Size and county decide most of it. If the building is under our floor, we say so on that call.
Site visit
We walk the dirt. Soil, access, utilities, drainage, setbacks. Blackland clay and East Texas sand take different foundations, and that changes the number.
Written scope, lump sum
One number against a scope you can read. What is not in it is listed in writing too: land, utilities, septic, the driveway. You see it before you sign, not after.
Build and close out
Same contractor start to finish. Draws are tied to milestones, listed below. The punch list gets finished, not abandoned.
Contract terms, on every job
- Quotes are good for 30 days. Steel moves.
- Lump sum against a written scope. Not cost-plus.
- Draws at deposit, slab, steel delivered, dried in, rough-in, and substantial completion.
- Price escalation applies only above a stated steel index move, written into the contract.
Read it before you call
Every price we publish is on one page, with the exclusions listed. The cost calculator runs the same tables for your size.
If you are deciding how much of the building to hand us, read shell versus turnkey. If the site is outside city limits, read who issues the permit first. The rest are on the guides page.
On site
Buildings we have documented
These are buildings we put up. Each one has its own page with the photographs, what we did and the price range for that kind of building.
- Event venue, clear span with mezzanineSpecialty
- Retail strip centerCommercial
- Multi-tenant flex centerCommercial
- Warehouse, tall eaveIndustrial
- Industrial shopIndustrial
- Aircraft hangarsSpecialty
- Covered riding arenaSpecialty
- Self-storage facilityCommercial
- Barndominium, dark metal and timberBarndominium
- Shop-houses on acreageBarndominium
- Agricultural and equipment storageCommercial
- Resort cabanas and covered pavilionsSpecialty
- Church and distillerySpecialty
Where we build
120 towns in 35 counties
We're based in Royse City, on Interstate 30 east of Dallas. The work runs the I-30 corridor from Weatherford and Fort Worth to Texarkana, east Dallas-Fort Worth, Texoma and Northeast Texas, and East Texas out to Marshall, Carthage, Palestine and Jacksonville.
Distance is not what decides whether we take a job. Size is. Every town page says who issues the permit there and what the soil does.
Counties
Anderson, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Collin, Dallas, Delta, Denton, Ellis, Fannin, Franklin, Grayson, Gregg, Harrison, Henderson, Hopkins, Hunt, Kaufman, Lamar, Marion, Morris, Navarro, Panola, Parker, Rains, Red River, Rockwall, Rusk, Smith, Tarrant, Titus, Upshur, Van Zandt, Wood.
Insured
General liability
$1,000,000 each occurrence. $2,000,000 general aggregate. $2,000,000 products and completed operations. Umbrella at $1,000,000 each occurrence. Certificates available on request, with additional insured status by automatic endorsement.
Contact
Karson Lawrence, Principal
i30 Builders LLC
469-721-0196
sales@i30builders.com
Royse City, TX