Built around your equipment list.
Fabric storage buildings for loaders, dozers, excavators and attachments — sized to your tallest boom, your widest bucket and the aisle your operators need. Installed turnkey by one Ontario team.
The equipment decides the building, not the other way around.
Every equipment shed we design starts with a walk through the fleet, not a standard bay size. We measure the tallest unit with its boom, bucket or box raised, the widest unit with mirrors, wings or attachments extended, and the turning and parking aisle your operators actually need to move between machines without a spotter. That list sets the clear span, the door height and width, and how many bays make sense.
- →Clear-span steel, no interior columns to plan around
- →Door openings sized to your tallest and widest unit plus clearance
- →Stamped engineering for your site's Ontario snow and wind loads
- →Warranty terms confirmed in the issued documents
Sized to the Real Machine
Clear span and door openings set from your tallest boom-up unit and widest wing-out unit — not a generic bay size.
Drive-Through Layouts
End-wall doors on both sides where the yard needs it, so equipment enters and exits without backing or turning inside.
Unheated or Heated Bays
Straight cold cover for most fleets, or a heated bay built into the same structure for hydraulics, thaw-out and bench work.
Galvanized, Engineered Frame
Stamped to your site's snow and wind loads, with a frame and membrane built for an open equipment yard.
What we measure before we draw anything.
Before we size a clear span or a door, we ask for the actual equipment list — makes, models and the dimensions that matter in a shed, not a brochure spec sheet:
- →Tallest unit measured with boom, bucket or box in its raised position
- →Widest unit with mirrors, wings, blades or attachments extended
- →Turning radius and parking aisle width your operators actually use
- →Number of units stored at once versus units cycling through daily
- →Attachments and small tools that need a rack, shelf or dedicated bay
- →Whether any unit needs to be worked on indoors, not just parked
Send that list and we'll come back with a building size, a door configuration and a preliminary budget range. Preliminary figures are for budgeting only — final pricing follows engineering, site conditions and the configuration you select.
Get a preliminary project budgetCover, or cover plus a shop.
Most equipment yards don't need a heated building — they need equipment out of snow load, ice and direct precipitation, and an unheated enclosed cover does that at the lowest cost per square foot. A heated bay earns its place when hydraulics need to thaw before a start-up, when a crew is doing bench work through winter, or when part of the fleet is down for service on-site. We routinely build both into one structure: an unheated storage bay alongside a heated shop bay, with the wall and door layout set to keep the two separate.
- →Gravel floor for straight cold storage on tracks and tires
- →Concrete slab where wash-down, point loads or a shop area matter
- →Grading and drainage planned with the pad, not chased after
- →Attachment racking or a dedicated bay for seasonal buckets, blades and tools
What we walk through before drawings start.
Floor type
Gravel for straight cold storage on tracks and tires, or a concrete slab where you need a clean shop area, wash-down or point-load capacity.
Drainage and grading
How meltwater and wash-down leave the pad, and how the approach is graded so equipment isn't parking in standing water or ice.
Security
Perimeter fencing, lockable equipment and personnel doors, and whether the yard is attended or needs to stand on its own overnight.
Lighting
Yard lighting for after-hours loading and interior lighting sized to the bay, specified with the building rather than added later.
Different fleets, different yards.
Construction contractors
Loaders, excavators, dozers and compactors cycling on and off active job sites, parked between projects on a yard sized for daily turnover.
Municipal and public works yards
Graders, loaders and attachments stored alongside plow and sander equipment, with room to work the yard through winter operations.
Aggregate and pit operators
Haul trucks, loaders and screening equipment kept off exposed ground between shifts, with drive-through access for a continuous production cycle.
Farm and forestry operators
Tractors, skidders, forwarders and implements stored with seasonal attachments racked separately when not in use.
Equipment dealers
New and used inventory covered and secured, with drive-through bays that keep units moving without repeated backing and staging.
Where to go next.
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What actually moves the budget on an equipment storage project.
ExploreThe complete guide to equipment storage buildings.
Building Depot is the Authorized MegaDome Dealer for Ontario and equipment storage buildings are one of the most-specified MegaDome configurations across the province. Engineered equipment storage buildings combine a hot-dip galvanized steel arch frame with a high-tenacity PVC membrane to deliver a clear-span, naturally lit, corrosion-resistant envelope that lasts decades with a fraction of the operating cost of conventional steel or wood construction.
Tractors, combines, planters, sprayers and tillage equipment that overwinter outdoors lose meaningful service life to UV, moisture and freeze-thaw cycles. A MegaDome equipment building gives an Ontario farm or contractor a clear-span, drive-through cover that protects equipment without the cost or columns of a conventional pole shed. Clear-span widths to 140 feet fit any modern combine head, sprayer boom or tillage train without folding, and full-width endwall doors mean equipment drives straight through without manoeuvring.
Building Depot equipment buildings are also widely used by municipal patrol yards, construction contractors, snow-and-ice operators and forestry crews — anyone with high-value seasonal equipment that needs to be kept under cover without the price tag of a fully insulated heated shop.
This page is the complete Ontario reference for equipment storage buildings — covering benefits, applications, construction process, engineering, foundation options, installation, warranty and ongoing maintenance. Every Building Depot project is delivered turnkey under one accountable contract: in-house engineering, stamped Ontario drawings, municipal permit management, foundation construction, fabric installation and full commissioning. One contract, one project manager, one phone number from kickoff to keys.
Headline benefits.
Where MegaDome fits.
Farm Equipment Cover
Combines, planters, sprayers and tillage equipment under one clear-span roof. Wide-open drive-through for the largest implements.
Construction Equipment
Skid steers, excavators, loaders and attachments. Drive-on slab or pier foundation, full sidewall and gable doors.
Municipal Fleet
Township and regional fleet storage for plows, graders, mowers and patchers. Clear-span layout with dedicated bays.
Snow & Ice Equipment
Plows, salters, blowers and attachments under cover. Co-located with salt domes for single-source winter operations.
Operators we build for across Ontario.
From contract to keys.
Every Building Depot equipment storage buildings project follows the same disciplined sequence. It starts with a site visit and a needs interview so we understand the operation, the equipment moving through the building, the access routes and any local zoning or conservation constraints. From there our in-house designer produces a stamped engineering package — building dimensions, foundation, ventilation, door layouts and any internal partitions — sized to the application and engineered to the site's snow, wind and exposure category under the Ontario Building Code.
The stamped package goes straight into the municipal permit submission. Building Depot manages the back-and-forth with the local building department and coordinates any conservation authority, site plan or zoning approvals required for the site. While the permit is in review, the foundation crew is mobilized and the steel order goes into production so the project moves the day the permit is issued.
On site, the foundation runs first — pier, slab, L-block or curb wall, depending on the configuration. Steel arches are raised next using a mobile crane and the Building Depot install crew, the fabric membrane is tensioned over the engineered ratchet system, end walls are framed and clad, and any door, lighting or ventilation systems are commissioned. The owner gets one accountable contract, one project manager and one weekly status update from contract signing through to keys.
Stamped Ontario engineering on every project.
Every MegaDome equipment storage buildings Building Depot delivers in Ontario ships with third-party engineering sealed by an Ontario P.Eng. and certified to CSA A660 — the Canadian standard for pre-engineered steel building systems. Engineering accounts for site-specific snow loads (1.6–3.5 kPa across the province), hourly wind pressures per the Ontario Building Code, unbalanced snow drift conditions and any seismic factors. Drawings include the full structural design, foundation reactions, anchor bolt schedules and ventilation specifications, and are submitted directly into the municipal permit package.
Engineering is included in every Building Depot quote — never billed separately, never outsourced to a third party the owner has to chase. The same engineering team that designs the building stands behind it through the permit process, the foundation inspection and any post-construction follow-up. That single accountable contract is why GTA developers, Northern Ontario mining operators and Eastern Ontario municipalities specify MegaDome through Building Depot as their default fabric building solution.
Engineered to your site, your budget and your soil.
Concrete Pier
Drilled or augered reinforced concrete piers. Lowest-cost option, ideal for sites without a slab requirement and for sloped or rural builds.
Reinforced Slab
Engineered reinforced concrete slab with thickened edge under the perimeter base channel. Standard for shop, warehouse, dairy and wash-down applications.
Curb Wall + Pier
Pier foundation with a 12–24" perimeter curb wall poured monolithic with the floor. Standard for clean-floor commercial and equestrian buildings.
Turnkey installation by Building Depot crews.
Building Depot maintains its own installation crews across Ontario — based in the GTA, Eastern Ontario and Northern Ontario — so we never sub-contract the install to a crew unfamiliar with MegaDome's tensioning system. A typical equipment storage buildings install runs 2–4 weeks for the steel frame and membrane portion, on top of 1–2 weeks for the foundation and 1 week for end-wall and door commissioning. Larger or column-free wide-span buildings (140'+) add an additional week for staged arch erection.
Steel arches are raised in sequence using a mobile crane sized to the arch weight. The PVC membrane is tensioned over the steel using engineered ratchet tensioners, with a 24-hour set period followed by a final tension check before sign-off. End walls are framed in galvanized steel and clad in matching membrane, insulated metal panel or owner-supplied finishes. Through the entire install, the client works with a single Building Depot project manager — no calling around for status updates, no finger-pointing between trades.
Backed for the long haul.
MegaDome equipment storage buildings carry a 25-year limited warranty on the structural steel frame and a 15-year limited warranty on the PVC membrane. Both warranties cover materials and workmanship and are honoured directly by Building Depot — Ontario's Authorized MegaDome Dealer — so warranty claims are resolved by the same team that installed the building, not bounced between a dealer, a manufacturer and a sub-contracted installer.
Hardware components — ratchet tensioners, anchor brackets, ventilation louvers and door systems — are covered under the membrane warranty. Building Depot maintains a full inventory of replacement membrane panels, brackets and hardware in Ontario, which means warranty service is typically scheduled within days, not the weeks it takes a U.S.-based supplier to ship parts across the border.
Simple, predictable upkeep.
Maintenance on a MegaDome equipment storage buildings is intentionally minimal — that's a core part of the value proposition versus conventional steel. Annual maintenance comprises a visual inspection of the membrane surface and ratchet tensioning system, a check of ridge vents and gable louvers, a tightening of anchor bolts where exposed and a wash-down of any accumulated debris. The hot-dip galvanized steel frame requires no painting, no rust treatment and no panel replacement over the building's design life, which is a meaningful operating-cost advantage over painted metal buildings that demand recoating every 10–15 years.
Building Depot offers an Ontario-wide annual inspection and re-tensioning service for operators who want a turnkey maintenance contract. A typical building requires a half-day visit once a year to remain in warranty-compliant condition. At the 5–7 year mark, our crews perform a full re-tension of the membrane to compensate for the natural relaxation that occurs in any PVC fabric structure. With that simple maintenance cycle, MegaDome buildings routinely deliver 25–30+ years of service before any fabric replacement is required.
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