Post-Frame Construction
Pole Buildings in Delaware & Maryland
Shops, garages, farm buildings and commercial space built post-frame across Sussex, Kent and New Castle County and the Eastern Shore. Stamped drawings, 28-gauge steel, and site work priced on the same sheet as the building.
What is a pole building?
A pole building — post-frame construction — carries the roof on laminated columns set on engineered footings instead of a foundation wall and stud walls. The columns run from footing to truss, so the trusses can span 40, 60, even 80 feet with no interior posts in the way.
That is the whole reason people build this way: clear span, faster erection, and a lower cost per square foot than stick-frame or pre-engineered steel for the same footprint. "Pole barn," "pole building" and "post-frame building" all describe the same system — the farm term just stuck.
Clear span
Up to 80 ft
No interior posts to work around
Sidewalls
10 – 20 ft
Set before we pour, not after
Foundation
Footings
No continuous foundation wall required
What people build
Detached garages, woodshops, car lifts and hobby space beside the house. Shell or fully finished.
Horse barns, hay and equipment storage, livestock housing on Delmarva farms.
Warehouses, contractor yards, auto shops and lease space with clear spans.
Tall sidewalls and wide overhead doors sized to the boat or coach you actually own.
Post-frame homes and shouses, shell or turnkey, when you want to live in it too.
How we build them
- Frame
- Laminated columns on engineered footings, sized to Delaware and Maryland wind loads
- Roof & siding
- 28-gauge painted steel standard, 40-year coating warranty
- Trusses
- Engineered and stamped for your county's snow and wind load
- Doors
- Overhead, sliders and walk doors sized during design, not after
- Sidewalls
- 10 ft to 20 ft — pick the height before we pour, you can't add it later
- Site work
- Clearing, fill, stone and slab quoted on paper with the building
Not sure on size? The pole building size guide walks through spans, door widths and sidewall height.
Want the engineering side? See how post-frame construction works and how post frame compares to a pole barn and stick-frame.
Popular pole building sizes
These are the footprints we build most across Delaware and the Eastern Shore. Each page lists what comes standard, what people usually add, and what the size is actually good for.
Two-Car Garage
24x24
576 sq ft. Two bays, one overhead door or two, standard 10 ft sidewall.
See this sizePole Barn
30x40
1,200 sq ft. The size we quote most — shop, equipment barn or garage.
See this sizeWorkshop
40x60
2,400 sq ft clear span. Room for a lift, a shop bench and truck parking.
See this sizePole Building
40x80
3,200 sq ft. Farm equipment, contractor storage or split shop and storage.
See this sizeCommercial Flex
50x100
5,000 sq ft. Warehouse, lease bays and contractor yards with tall doors.
See this sizeBoat & RV Barn
RV
16 to 20 ft sidewalls sized to the coach or boat you actually own.
See this sizeWhere we build
We work out of Dover and build across the whole peninsula — every Delaware county and every Maryland Eastern Shore county below. Same crews, same specs, permits pulled locally.
Delaware: Sussex, Kent, New Castle. Maryland: Queen Anne's, Talbot, Caroline, Dorchester, Wicomico, Worcester, Somerset, Cecil, Kent.
Common questions
Send us the size and the address
We walk the site, price the site work with the building, and give you a number you can hold us to.