Can a steel building maintain freezer temperatures?

Yes. We design the shell to accept insulated metal panels and vapor barriers with the thermal performance your refrigeration engineer specifies.

What R-value can the walls achieve?

Insulated metal panels range from R-16 to R-48 depending on thickness and core. We coordinate the panel spec with your mechanical design.

Do you engineer for dock doors and coolers?

Yes — dock-door openings, cooler box wall ties, and refrigeration equipment loads are all part of the structural package.

Can it be installed as a kit?

Smaller cold rooms and produce coolers are often kit-built. Large frozen warehouses are usually turnkey with our crews.

Do you supply the refrigeration system?

No — we engineer the shell to accept it, and coordinate loads, penetrations and panel specs with your refrigeration engineer.

How is condensation prevented?

Vapor barrier continuity and thermal-break detailing at purlins, frames and jambs keep warm moist air out of the assembly.

Cold Storage & Refrigerated Warehouse Buildings

Name: AMF Steel Buildings
Address: 1507 Gold Hill St, Castle Rock, CO, 80109, US
Telephone: 1-800-204-7199

10,000 – 100,000+ sq ft · 20'–40' eave

Insulated refrigerated warehouses and cold-storage distribution centers engineered for temperature control, heavy roof loads, and high-traffic dock operations.

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What is a cold storage steel building?

Cold storage steel buildings are pre-engineered shells detailed for insulated metal panels, vapor barriers and thermal breaks so coolers and freezers hold temperature without condensation in the structure. Dock-door spacing, refrigeration equipment loads and slab insulation are engineered together with the frame.

What drives the price

The insulated panel and refrigeration package, not the steel, sets the cost of cold storage. Freezer temperatures, slab insulation and dock equipment step the budget up from a produce cooler.

Cold Storage at a glance

Typical size range: 12,000 – 100,000+ sq ft
Panel R-value: R-16 to R-48 insulated metal panel
Common eave height: 20' – 40'
Temperatures: Produce cooler through frozen storage
Ways to buy: Kit only, or supplied and installed

What it is

Cold Storage built in steel

Red-iron frames wrapped in insulated metal panel assemblies, with vapor barriers, cooler/freezer box integration, and dock-door layouts sized for refrigerated freight. Built to keep product cold and operations moving.

Who buys this building

Food distributors, produce processors, cold-chain 3PLs, dairy and meat operations, pharmaceutical storage, and frozen-goods warehouses.

Panels & colors

Insulated metal panel wall and roof systems in white or light-reflective finishes, with dark wainscot at dock level and standing seam roof where specified.

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How we engineer it

Insulated metal panel walls and roofs sized to the R-value your product requires
Vapor barrier and thermal-break detailing at purlins and frames
Cooler/freezer box integration with slab insulation and door jamb reinforcement
Dock-door spacing and canopy framing for refrigerated trailers
Roof load designed for refrigeration equipment, catwalks, and snow

Sizing

Common cold storage sizes

Typical cold storage dimensions, floor area and use
Width x length x eave	Floor area	Typical use
80' x 150' x 24'	12,000 sq ft	Produce cooler with two dock doors
100' x 200' x 28'	20,000 sq ft	Multi-temperature distribution
150' x 300' x 32'	45,000 sq ft	Frozen-goods warehouse
200' x 500' x 40'	100,000 sq ft	Regional cold-chain hub

Sizes are starting points. Every building is engineered to your footprint, equipment and local code before fabrication.

Cold Storage projects

Full gallery

Steel office and warehouse combination with accent facade lighting, glazing bands and drive-in doors on the shop end. — Two-story office and warehouse

Column-free bay with insulated roof liner, charcoal wainscot and high-bay lighting for equipment storage. — Clear-span warehouse interior

Wide-format commercial building with standing seam roof and painted wall panels. — Clear-span commercial building

High snow load design engineered out of our Castle Rock, CO home base. — Monument, Colorado building

Downloads

Cold Storage brochures & spec sheets

View or download materials right now — no form required. Need stamped drawings or a full submittal package? Request it and a specialist sends it over.

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Colors & finishes

Pick the cold storage color scheme

Every cold storage ships with SMP WeatherXL finishes on roof, walls, wainscot and trim. Mix and match roof, wall, wainscot and trim colors from the full AMF chart, including premium Signature Series finishes.

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Galvalume Plus
Polar White
Ash Gray
Old Town Gray
Steel Gray
Black
Burnished Slate
Koko Brown
Colonial Red
Patriot Red
Light Stone
Surfsand
Sahara Tan
Fern Green
Evergreen
Colony Green
Royal Blue
Hawaiian Blue
Cool White
Light Stone SS

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Design your cold storage in 3D, then email it for a bid

Set width, length and eave height, add framed openings, walk doors, windows and wainscoting, then paint it in real AMF colors. Export renderings, a spec sheet or a brochure PDF — or send the design straight to our estimating team.

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Three ways to get your cold storage building

We supply complete steel buildings — installed turnkey by our own crews — and we supply bolt-together metal building kits. Pick the scope that fits your crew and schedule.

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Supplied & installed

One contract: engineering, red iron, panels, freight and our installation crews on your slab.

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Buy the kit

Bolt-together kit

Stamped drawings and a complete steel package shipped to your site for your own crew.

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FAQ

Cold Storage questions

Can a steel building maintain freezer temperatures?: Yes. We design the shell to accept insulated metal panels and vapor barriers with the thermal performance your refrigeration engineer specifies.
What R-value can the walls achieve?: Insulated metal panels range from R-16 to R-48 depending on thickness and core. We coordinate the panel spec with your mechanical design.
Do you engineer for dock doors and coolers?: Yes — dock-door openings, cooler box wall ties, and refrigeration equipment loads are all part of the structural package.
Can it be installed as a kit?: Smaller cold rooms and produce coolers are often kit-built. Large frozen warehouses are usually turnkey with our crews.
Do you supply the refrigeration system?: No — we engineer the shell to accept it, and coordinate loads, penetrations and panel specs with your refrigeration engineer.
How is condensation prevented?: Vapor barrier continuity and thermal-break detailing at purlins, frames and jambs keep warm moist air out of the assembly.

Service areas

Cold Storage buildings delivered to all 50 states

We supply and install cold storage buildings nationwide — from Alabama to Wyoming — with stamped engineering for local wind, snow and seismic loads. Pick your state for lead times, code notes and local project examples.

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