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How to Engineer Subfloors and Cold-Formed Steel Floor Joists for a Little Peace and Quiet
The occupants of a building want peace and quiet. How can you engineer subfloors and cold-formed steel (CFS) flooring joists to meet that demand? The answer involves designing CFS floors with greater mass. You must also take into account joist spacing, resilient...
‘Dormzilla’ Opens Debate on Student Housing Designs
Photo: Munger Hall at UC Santa Barbara. The exterior windows will primarily face the common areas, not the dorm rooms. Universities throughout the United States face severe student housing shortages. To solve this problem, administrators are scrambling to find...
7 Examples From General Contractors of Wins With Cold-Formed Steel Framing
It may not be the biggest secret in the world, but the “secret sauce” in building construction on many projects today is cold-formed steel (CFS) framing. “The quality is just phenomenal,” says Brandon Bergholz, project manager at Mortenson Construction, a large...
Contractors and Steel Framing Industry Prepare for Increased Workload from IIJA
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) provides an estimated $1.2 trillion in funding over ten years for a broad range of infrastructure sectors, including roads, bridges, public transit, renewable energy and green building technology. With significant...
Cold-Formed Steel Framing Solves Challenges in Utah Office Building
The Cottonwood Cornerstone Center office building complex (Utah) is located in the shadows of the Wasatch Mountains and less than 1 mile from the Wasatch Fault. The office building consists of a six-story steel structure, a three-story lobby connector steel structure...
Steel Framing Featured in New Jersey Assisted Living Center
Construction is underway on the Residence at Basking Ridge, a 90-apartment assisted living, memory care, temporary stay and respite care community in Basking Ridge, NJ. When completed, the community will feature three levels of cold-formed steel (CFS) framing and a...
592,000 Hotel Rooms in the US Pipeline
The COVID-19 pandemic put many travel plans on hiatus, especially as coronavirus variants spread across the globe. But work on hotel and resort projects certainly didn’t come to a halt during this disruption. “While many of us were stuck at home,” says the...
Steel Framing Used to Construct Energy-Efficient Senior Housing
A new 3-story, 101-suite assisted living and memory care community, Chelsea at Greenburgh, in Greenburgh, N.Y., was constructed on an abandoned retail site and opened to residents in December 2020. The 90,651-square-foot housing community was designed with sustainable...
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