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3 Design Trends Being Shaped by Social Distancing
Image Credits: Metreau Apartments, Green Bay, WI; this multi-family structure features cold-formed steel (CFS) framing, which supports a variety of balcony options and inset terraces. COVID-19 has brought changes to everything, and single-family homes, apartments, and...
3 Reasons Why Cold-Formed Steel is Ideal for Urban Infill Projects
Across the globe, people are migrating to cities to live and work. The United Nations says 3.9 billion people — 54 percent of the world — live in metropolitan areas. By 2050, 66 percent of all people will be city dwellers, which means an extra 2.5 billion people will...
Urban Infill Project Saves 1.7 Million with Steel Framing
A standout apartment building lies in the busy 14th St. NW corridor of Washington, D.C. The area is being renewed through a District Department of Transportation beautification project. It’s the place to be for up-and-coming artists and professionals. Here, Ellisdale...
A Quality Hotel Built for Less
Jerry Baxter, an owner of the Holiday Inn Express in Hearne, Texas, attests to the benefits of cold-form steel framing. He’s saved money in the hotel’s construction, insurance costs and ongoing maintenance needs. “After building our first hotel using wood for...
Steel Helps Fulfill Hospital Demands for Advanced Construction Technologies
Prefabrication and modular construction are among the most cited advanced construction technologies being used for hospital design and construction, show the findings from the 2020 Hospital Construction Survey conducted by Health Facilities Management, a publication...
Family Handyman Provides the Basics of Framing with Steel Studs
Photo Credit: The Family Handyman The do-it-yourself experts of Family Handyman say you will like cold-formed steel (CFS) framing. Steel studs are perfectly straight and won’t shrink or split. They’re light, easy to store and resist fire, insects and rot. And,...
Sky-High Lumber Prices Leave Builders Scrambling; CFS to the Rescue
It has now been approximately six months since the global coronavirus pandemic started wreaking havoc on the United States. While many raw materials have seen little fluctuation in price throughout the pandemic, the same cannot be said for the cost of wood. Not only...
Average New Home Price Now $14,000 Higher Due to Lumber
Picture provided by buildsteel.org. According to the National Association of Home Builders’s (NAHB) standard estimates of lumber used to build the average home, the recent spike in softwood lumber prices has caused the price of an average new single-family home to...
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