Services · Film & Production
Nevada · Arizona · Southwest
Build the Future of Film Production
Drawing on more than 15 years of experience designing and supplying complex pre-engineered metal building systems, Full Metal Buildings applies proven clear-span building expertise to the specialized structural requirements of film studios, sound stages, broadcast facilities, and production campuses. Our systems are engineered for faster delivery, future expansion, and the demanding overhead load and envelope requirements this market demands.
We are prepared to bring that same engineering discipline to the entertainment industry — and we understand what the building has to do before the first structural drawing is produced.
What we provide
Built for
production
A sound stage is not a warehouse with better lighting. Every system we design for a production facility starts from what the building has to do — not from a standard template we've adapted. These are the capabilities we bring to every project.
Clear-span interiors
A column in the middle of a sound stage isn't an inconvenience — it's a production problem. Our steel moment frames deliver column-free floor plans from 40 ft to 300 ft wide, so your set designer, your DP, and your rigging crew all work with the same unobstructed canvas.
Acoustic-ready shell
We don't promise a quiet building — we engineer a shell that your acoustic contractor can actually work with. The framing is designed from the start to accept mass-loaded vinyl, resilient channel, and specialty insulation packages without structural compromise.
Overhead load capacity
A lighting grid isn't an afterthought — it's a structural load that has to be designed in from day one. We engineer roof framing for production-specific overhead loads: lighting grids, rigging points, and catwalk systems up to 50 psf and beyond.
Controlled environment
Film and broadcast production can't tolerate a building that breathes with the weather. Our tight envelope — thermal breaks, vapor barriers, and HVAC-ready penetrations — gives your mechanical engineer a building that holds its conditions.
Drive-in access
Getting a 40-foot set piece, a picture car, or a grip truck inside shouldn't require a workaround. We design oversized roll-up and bi-fold door openings — up to 40 ft wide — so the building works the way production actually works.
Permit-ready packages
Stamped engineering drawings, energy compliance documentation, and coordination with local building departments. Drawing on more than 15 years of experience supplying complex pre-engineered building systems, we know where permit processes stall on large-span structures — and how to prepare a package that moves.
Types of facilities
Every stage of production
Sound stages
The core of any production campus. We apply proven clear-span building expertise to the specific structural requirements of film, television, and streaming sound stages — column-free interiors from 5,000 to 50,000+ sq ft, with roof framing engineered for overhead production loads from day one.
Production warehouses
Every major production needs somewhere to build sets, store props, and stage equipment between shooting days. High-bay, drive-in facilities with mezzanine options — designed for the organized chaos of a working production.
Broadcast studios
News, sports, and live broadcast have different structural demands than a film stage — denser equipment loads, tighter acoustic specs, and cable management that has to be designed into the structure from the start. We engineer the building system to meet those requirements; your broadcast integrator handles the rest.
Post-production facilities
Editing suites, color grading theaters, ADR rooms, and server infrastructure all require a building that holds its temperature, controls its vibration, and never loses power. We engineer the shell; your MEP team handles the rest — on a structure that gives them room to work.
Backlot support structures
Grip and electric storage, generator enclosures, production office complexes, base camp structures — the buildings that don't make the call sheet but make the production possible. We supply the same pre-engineered steel systems for support structures as for primary stages, with the same engineering rigor.
Why pre-engineered steel
The structural
case for steel
Conventional construction wasn't designed for the way film production actually works. Pre-engineered steel was. Here's why the industry's most demanding facilities keep choosing it.
The schedule is real
Pre-engineered components are fabricated in a controlled environment and arrive ready to erect. A 20,000 sq ft sound stage shell can be weather-tight in 8–12 weeks. That's not a sales number — that's the difference between a production campus that opens on time and one that doesn't.
No column, no compromise
Steel moment frames eliminate interior columns entirely. That means your set designer gets the full floor. Your DP gets the full angle. Your rigging crew gets the full ceiling. No post in the middle of the room that everyone has to work around.
Loads designed in, not bolted on
A building not engineered for production overhead loads creates expensive problems when the rigging contractor arrives. Drawing on more than 15 years of experience with complex clear-span structures, we design roof framing for your specific production loads from the beginning — so the structure is ready when your team needs it.
The campus grows with you
Steel buildings can be extended longitudinally without demolition. The production company that starts with one stage and needs four in three years doesn't have to start over — they extend what they built.
Budget certainty
Factory-fabricated components mean your material costs are locked before the first piece of steel goes up. Faster erection schedules mean less time paying a crew to wait. Those two things together are what keep a construction budget from becoming a negotiation.
Start a conversation
Tell us about your project
Share your facility requirements — square footage, span, overhead loads, acoustic needs — and we'll come back with a preliminary scope and budget range.
(702) 281-5231