Constructing a Perka Hybrid Building at Rugged Ridge Forest - Worcester, Vermont

We recently built a Perka Hybrid building at Rugged Ridge Forest. This building is for storing hay, firewood, and equipment.


00:00 - Intro
00:19 - Preparing Our Site
02:18 - Unloading Our Trusses
02:45 - Wall Erection
03:46 - Laying out Roof Trusses
04:35 - Crane Day
05:00 - Girts, Purlins, and Tin
06:58 - Shameless Self Promotion of Our Wood-Fired, Pure, Vermont Maple Syrup - Get yours at ruggedridgeforest.com ! We appreciate the support and know you will enjoy the syrup!



The people at Perka were wonderful to work with, and we really like this style of construction. It takes the strengths of a steel building, such as large clear spans, and pairs them with the ease, and usually cost effectiveness of working with wood. Also, their truss system allows them to be extremely cost competitive vs traditional heavy beam steel buildings. Using less steel they can make very strong structures using their truss system, saving you cost/pound of steel, which was very important in 2020.

Overall I would recommend Perka buidlings, especially in the ag sector. They are happy to work with you about insulating and finishing the interior of your structure, but the cost effectiveness and speed with which this building went up is truly impressive. It is also engineered and warrantied for our snow and wind load. Overall, I would definitely work with them again, in fact, I have a few more structures in the planning stage that might likely be Perkas.