My huge blog on prefabricated steel buildings
The design of these Quonset huts, as they came to be called, was modeled after and modified from the semi cylindrical design of the British Nissen hut into an insulated building with wooden linings and floorings. These metal buildings were initially used for troop and equipment housing, but vertical sidewalls were eventually added to the structures to increase the amount of usable space for more diverse purposes such as bakeries, isolation wards, dental offices and showers. They became so popular with the troops that some of them even purchased the surplus metal buildings for their personal housing after the war. Todays metal buildings come in several different design kits. Each kit comes with a user friendly assembly manual that even the most mechanically challenged of us can follow.