Most American homes are still framed with wood. More builders and homeowners are now choosing steel, especially in places that see hurricanes, termites or wildfire. Steel frame houses look like any other home from the outside. The difference is the skeleton behind the...
Exterior curtain wall framing can present unique structural challenges — especially when accommodating vertical deflection, lateral movement, and slab bypass conditions. DriftTrak systems are designed and manufactured by The Steel Network to provide engineered...
How do you ensure that your project’s cold-formed steel (CFS) framing has the right design? Answer: You follow the code requirements. For complex commercial construction, you hire a professional engineer who understands proper design. Engineers can match the strength...
BuildSteel.org has been given permission to run the following cold-formed steel (CFS) sustainability article by Weston Adwell of Intellisteel Group, LLC, and adapted for BuildSteel readers. Photo courtesy of Intellisteel of when Hurricane Dorian came ripping through...
Prefabrication, the assembly of buildings or their components at a location other than the building site. The method controls construction costs by economizing on time, wages, and materials.— Britannica, “prefabrication” I like to describe prefabrication as the...
In the U.S., 4.5 million homes were acknowledged to be at high or extreme danger of wildfire, according to “2019 Wildfire Risk Analysis” by Verisk. Firestorm devastation was initially mostly limited to the West Coast, but now it has spread across the southern portion...
Photo Credit: SBS Group In order to meet the continued worker shortage, the construction industry is in need of new building solutions that require less labor. According to new research from the Associated Builders and Contractors of America (ABC), the...
Load-bearing CFS panels can be built offsite to achieve tighter tolerances and greater assembly precision. This was the chosen method to construct the 126,000 sq. ft. Seasons Retirement Community in Cambridge, Ontario, according to Construction Canada. The building...
The Ferrell Hospital in Eldorado, Ill., recently completed a new $34 million project to expand and modernize the existing healthcare facility. The project, completed by Doster Construction, added 55,000 square feet of space to the existing 33,000-square-foot hospital,...