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A modern metal storage building with two roll-up doors on a dirt lot under a clear blue sky.

Orion Metal Buildings is a Tucson-based company. Founded by Elizabeth Tipton, with nearly 20 years of experience specializing in the metal building market, Orion MB is bringing Cold-Formed to Southern Arizona as the solution for fast, affordable, quality, small sized steel buildings.

Elizabeth has worked on over 300 metal building projects, from airplane hangars to custom homes, beer garden canopies to RV storage, and private schools to space exploration campuses. Orion leverages this experience to help our customers identify the solution to their particular project needs.

That is what makes this locally fabricated, Cold-Form Solution so exciting for Arizona. For years, the choices for small sized metal buildings for workshops, garages, small businesses, and vehicle protection were either too expensive, took too long to fabricate, or required nearly as much concrete as they did steel.

Cold-Form addresses these challenges. You receive a quality, engineered, building kit. The steel, panels, fasteners and bolts are all the same as what the bigger Commercial and Industrial clients receive. This is not a thin-tin sheeted building that will fly away in the first heavy monsoon winds, but a quality, long-life structure that requires zero paint, termite treatments, sealing, staining or other maintenance associated with wood, stucco or block construction.

Cold-Formed can be used to build canopies, porches, workshops, garages, or add mezzanines for extra storage or living space—all with durable, commercial-grade steel. Most buildings can be assembled with common DIY tools, and local equipment rentals are available for larger projects.

Stop dreaming and start designing your steel oasis today.

Want turnkey service? Have some fun in the Orion Designer to create the conceptual building of your dreams, and then our sister company, North of Orion, LLC., can handle everything from permitting and site work to concrete, shell construction, and complete build-outs.

These structures aren’t just for Residential uses either - we already have saved several area commercial business time and money, substituting a Cold Formed structure for standard steel or metal building on their project sites. So have an idea for your office, shop or maintenance bay? Need a Wash Bay Canopy for storm water pollution? Contact Orion today.