BARTLETT, Tenn., September 21, 2006 - Mike Malena started his career as a dairyman in 1971 with only a few cows and long-term ambitions. Today, the dairy farm in Leigh, Neb., called Holsteins Unlimited, has grown into an 800-cow business. The farm expanded its operations last year when the family’s second generation decided to join the father's business. 
Heartland Builders, Columbus, Neb., was selected as the design/build contractor. The project significantly increased the confinement dairy's complex by adding a milking parlor, 43,000-sq.-ft.and 41,000-sq.-ft. free stall barns, and 8200-sq.-ft. and 18,000-sq.-ft. isolation barns for newborn calves and recovering cows. Liberty Building Systems (www.LibertyBuildings.com) supplied the project with 4:12”, double-slope rigid-frame structural framing with interior columns establishing a central drive lane for access down the full length of the structure during feed deliveries. Liberty also supplied 26-gauge PBR roof and wall panels in a Polar White FreedomCote™ finish to complete the primary materials.
Liberty Building Systems, Inc., operates nationwide from headquarters and engineering offices in Bartlett, Tenn. The company has an AISC-certified manufacturing facility in Selmer, Tenn., and is as a wholly owned subsidiary of Butler Manufacturing Company, a BlueScope Steel Company.
