Pooler sits where Interstate 95 crosses Interstate 16, a few minutes from Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport and a short drive from the Georgia Ports Authority’s Port of Savannah. That crossroads is where Yogesh Patel built his retail space with us: a 76 by 163 foot pre-engineered building, 15 feet high, under a 0.5:12 low-slope roof. Do the arithmetic and that is roughly 12,400 square feet of open floor for a retail tenant to lay out however the business needs. Patel’s own account sums up how it went. He wrote that Burt made the process a breeze, that Joe walked him through every step of the engineering and fabrication, and that the building arrived on time, went up smoothly, and turned out exactly as he had hoped. For a coastal county, the engineering side matters as much as the floor plan. Chatham County faces the Atlantic, so every frame we design here is sized to the design wind speed and exposure at its own address rather than an inland assumption, and the drawings carry the load calculations your building department will ask to see. The same approach applies a short drive away in Effingham County around Rincon and in Bryan County around Richmond Hill. Pooler is our featured metro Savannah project today; elsewhere in Georgia, owners in Commerce and Baxley have added commercial and storage buildings on the same engineered frame. Retail, office, and warehouse buyers should start with our commercial metal buildings page, and the Georgia steel building hub collects every project in the state.
What the Pooler retail project shows about building steel between the I-95 corridor and the Atlantic.
The Pooler building measures 76 feet wide by 163 feet long, about 12,400 square feet under one roof. Door placement, storefront openings, and roof slope were settled during design, so the shell fits the business rather than the other way around.
Chatham County is coastal, and tropical storms and hurricanes reach this stretch of Georgia. Each frame is engineered to the wind speed and exposure category for its address, with the calculations included in the drawing set for permit review.
Yogesh Patel named his salesperson and his engineer in his testimonial: Burt kept the process easy, and Joe explained the engineering and fabrication step by step.
Pooler sits where I-95 meets I-16, so a building bound for Chatham, Effingham, or Bryan County rides interstate most of the way. Every MBMI quote includes freight direct from the factory to your job site.
Retail leads the published record in Pooler, and every MBMI category ships to Chatham, Effingham, Bryan, and the surrounding coastal counties.
The 76 by 163 Pooler retail building is the local model: a 15-foot-high shell on a 0.5:12 roof, ready for storefront glass, signage, and an interior fit-out by the tenant.
Two-car garages and contractor shops for homes in Pooler, Rincon, and Richmond Hill, with roll-up doors and walk doors placed where the driveway and the work actually go.
Tall, deep bays keep center-console boats and travel trailers out of the coastal sun and salt air between trips to Tybee Island, Skidaway, or the Ogeechee River.
Clear-span assembly halls give a congregation one open room for worship, fellowship, and events, engineered for coastal wind like every other frame we send to Chatham County.
Equipment sheds and hay barns for the farm ground inland in Effingham and Bryan Counties, sized to the equipment and finished with a coating backed by a 40-year paint warranty.
Covered arenas let coastal riders school through summer heat and afternoon storms, with stall barns or lean-tos added to the same engineered drawing set.
Building near the coast? Our guide to how steel buildings stand up to hurricanes explains what wind engineering covers.
The Pooler retail building is our featured metro Savannah project. Two more Georgia commercial and storage projects show the same frame at work elsewhere in the state.
The same four steps took the Pooler retail building from a first call to a finished shell.
Share the footprint, height, doors, and use. MBMI quotes are written to be easy to understand, include freight to your Chatham County site, and include every accessory you request.
Our in-house engineers size the frame to the wind loads at your address, then deliver detailed drawings, load calculations, and a fully itemized list of parts and accessories.
Parts are manufactured at IAS-certified facilities to MBMA standards, labeled to match the erection drawings, and trucked to the site. Patel’s building arrived on time.
The owner arranges the foundation and erection, guided by the drawings and labeled parts. In Patel’s words, the building went up smoothly and turned out exactly as he hoped.
Published project pages across Georgia. Statewide coverage applies to every county, from the coast to the Atlanta metro and the Blue Ridge.
“I recently got a metal building from MBMI for a retail space and I cannot say enough about how much Burt made this process a breeze. Joe walked me through every step of the engineering and fabrication process. The building arrived on time, went up smoothly, and turned out exactly as I hoped.”
“We needed an addition to our two bay auto repair shop and we researched and decided to go with MBMI and we are very glad of our decision. We know we have a very solid structure. Thanks for making a good product!”
“Dealing with MBMI Metal Buildings was an absolute pleasure. I was promised a top notch building at a fair price, and that was exactly what I got.”
From a Pooler storefront to a boat barn in Bryan County, send us the size, use, and address. Your quote includes freight and the accessories you request, engineered for coastal wind and Georgia code.
MBMI Metal Buildings
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Chatham County buildings follow the state minimum codes adopted by the Georgia Department of Community Affairs, currently the 2024 IBC with Georgia Amendments.
