Eagle Span structures spreads wings

Unique product offering brings booming market

With age comes knowledge. But all the knowledge in the world won’t quell Jerry Curtis’ curiosity. And as the years tick on, Curtis, 57, sits at his desk, researching and planning, carefully crafting his new company’s next move.

Loveland-based Eagle Span Steel Structures Inc., the nation’s only manufacturer of folded-web steel beams for metal building construction, is Curtis’ brainchild. But company president and CEO Curtis isn’t a construction-industry veteran or even an engineer. His tryst with Eagle Span’s unique folded steel design came by chance, out of curiosity.

For 24 years Curtis toiled in the banking industry.…