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See How Pole Barn Design Uses Custom Ventilation to help you Avoid Air-Quality Mistakes

Think healthy and choose an outbuilding with pole barn design and customized ventilation system. When planning to build a pole building, you can incorporate several activities. For example, keep livestock or horses, work on your car or tractor, and invite friends over for a game of pool – all under one roof.

You will want both people and animals to be able to breathe fresh, clean air – even as you avoid common mistakes associated with barn air quality. In “Avoid Stuffy Stables with Proper Ventilation” published by Lester Buildings, the manufacturer revealed basic principles affecting air quality. They referred to the work of Eileen Fabian Wheeler, Ph.D., professor of agricultural and biological engineering at Penn State.

How Pole Buildings Improve Ventilation

Wheeler’s article, “Horse Stable Ventilation,” still rings true. Barns must circulate fresh air. Owners need to remove heat in summer and moisture in winter. This takes some engineering knowhow. That’s why owners need to hire a builder who knows barn ventilation. Sapphire Construction, Inc. partners with Lester Buildings, making them experts in this area. The architects will:

1. Bring fresh air into the building
2. Enhance natural ventilation
3. Mix outside and inside air
4. Remove heat, moisture, pathogens
5. Lower levels for temperature, humidity, and contamination
6. Exhaust moist, contaminated air and odors
7. Design proper drainage
8. Design for best building site and posture

To carry out these goals, our designers encourage buyers to look at appropriate roof slopes such as vented ridge system or overhangs. We site the buildings after studying the prevailing winds and snow and sun impacts. They may recommend wall systems, extra overhead or Dutch doors, large windows or shutters, and scientifically selected, top-quality insulation. The goal is to create a comfortable and dry stable or open space.

Air Quality Problems

Horses do come with a set of variables but so do other hobbies like automotive tasks and woodworking. Chemicals, water, and germs, dust, and dander can be mitigated. Following are some of the common poisons found inside buildings. Some people are more susceptible to allergic reactions and illness than others, granted.

However, some of these substances are deadly over the long term or within hours, like Carbon monoxide poisoning. But we also want to stay away from many more substances: Asbestos, Mold, UV light, Radon, Moisture problems, Dust mites, Animal dander, Bacteria and viruses, Formaldehyde, Nitrogen oxides, Organic chemicals, solvents, pesticides, Ozone from soldering or welding, Particulate matter, Phthalates, Polybrominated diphenyl ethers, etc.

Colorado Builders Specializing in Outbuildings

For information about pole barn design for Equestrian, Storage, Hobbies, Farm & Ranch, Livestock, and Commercial uses, contact Sapphire Construction, Inc. at (303) 619-7213. We custom design each building using high-quality, engineer-tested materials from Lester Buildings.