A company’s customer service record should be a core consideration when making any buying decision. This especially applies to buying a pre-engineered building. Each metal building should be designed and built to order. Nowadays the building department scrutinizes each detail of a design before granting their approval.
Rapidset Metal Buildings started life from SteelBuildingSupplier.com Inc. which was born out of a commercial construction company, Plumbline Commercial Builders. Created by three general contractors, Plumbline handled a lot of the major contracts around Colorado Springs. 
However, with Plumbline’s rapid growth, managing the company became increasingly difficult. Plumbline erected pre-engineered buildings and found it was quick, relatively easy and usually required fewer trades to manage than conventional commercial building. From there Plumbline acquired a steel building dealership. Our first purchase was Butler, then Whirlwind and some others. We discovered, however, that success was dictated by two things. The first was a price point that we were unable to hit as a dealer. The second was customer service which was difficult to handle along with managing a successful commercial construction company. So we needed to devise a better solution.
The answer we found was to design, detail, and engineer our own brand “Rapidset Metal Buildings”. So, we purchased MBS (Metal Building Software), the same software that steel factories use, to design and detail our buildings. Dealers and resellers often have a “dealer version” of MBS for quoting jobs supplied by factories in their offices, but we needed to design and detail all the way down to the shop drawings so we could eliminate a lot of the trouble we had become so familiar with when working with other manufacturing companies.
When we first purchased MBS the configuration was a nightmare. We joked about anchor bolts hanging out of the roof. We began logging each customer service issue and used it to refine MBS and our internal processes. There are thousands of settings within MBS to dictate how the factory manufactures a building. Sometimes we change a setting and it never happens again; sometimes it is a detail check; sometimes it is a change to our assembly manual. The result is an increasingly cleaner building for our clients. After years of refining, the majority of our buildings designed, need no adjustments or changes through detailing and engineering. Today, we can design buildings in minutes including the software input for some of the manufacturing machines on the shop floor.
At Rapidset Metal Buildings we felt that we could better manage customer service as well as designing, detailing, and engineering metal buildings more effectively, than we could a construction company that consisted of so many moving parts to bring a job in on time and within budget all while maintaining quality. So today we are only Rapidset and it’s a pleasure to continue to refine our process.
Choosing a specific market has also vastly improved our customer service. We focus primarily on Builders, Erectors, and Resellers, although buying a building does not require a dealership or license. Today most of the buildings sold do not generate a single customer service call.
When customer service is needed we first discern the source of the error. Because our buildings are completely engineered in house, we simply pull up the shop drawings and ship list from the server or we pull the job folder to ensure the factory manufactured to our specifications and that our design does not require further attention. From there we devise a solution using the MBMA manual. If the time comes that you need customer service, you’ll work with a single person in our office to reach a solution.
We at Rapidset Metal Buildings understand that a happy client is a returning client. Our clients are based around the world which has given us a chance to travel, often just to make sure shipping, delivery, and construction goes smoothly. Our clients return to us for all of their buildings because they know that Rapidset Metal Buildings provides an unparalleled product and unsurpassed customer service.
We do refer work, but experience has taught us to work mostly from established relationships. If Rapidset Metal Buildings refers a client to you this means that you’ve purchased a number of buildings from us, that you know our system, and we’re confident in you as a builder, erector, or reseller. Working by this philosophy has greatly reduced the number of calls from buyers who are dissatisfied with their builder.
This is why we say “come for the price, stay for the service”.