Metal Building with Stucco?

[WNYflyer]

Did the metal building company say stucco of any kind would be ok? Riverside can experience serious earthquakes and metal buildings are often designed to have huge deflections under seismic loads, as much as 1:40. So the two concerns with stucco would be 1) how will all of that weight impact the seismic design of the structure, and 2) how will the stucco remain attached and unbroken during a quake?

Just considering wind loading I believe pre-engineered metal buildings (PEMB's) often have a greater allowable deflection of components (i.e. girts) than the allowable deflection of facing materials such as EIFS's (such as "Dryvit" which is a trade name") or brick and the like. Probably additional cost to the steel building to get the allowable building deflections down to the allowable that can be handled by the those types of facing materials.

 

[readhead]

When I have done metal buildings with stucco I order the building with girts at 24" on center and apply OSB. Stucco is then applied like any other building. The closer spaced girts also give you the ability to install drywall or other material without additional framing on the interior.

 

[varia]

Hello,

So I've been dealing with the city about an all metal building in my backyard due to zoning. I'd like to do an all metal building but they don't want the "metal look"......They mentioned if it was covered in stucco it would pass the planning department.....Does anyone know if this can be done or if its worth the hassle? The metal building a 1/4 the price of having a stick building done; in the same dimensions 25x30x12.

Thank you in advance.... I'll attach the type of building I'm looking to do.

so what did you do?
im in the similar boat.