Friday, July 18, 2008

Benefits of Steel Framing

Steel frame buildings are considered as high-quality buildings. Steel framing material characteristics and properties, cold formed steel studs offer great advantages to home owners, builders and consumers. Steel studs and joists are strong, lightweight, and made from uniform-quality material. Steel walls are straight, with square corners, and all but eliminate pops in drywall. This virtually does away with the need for costly callbacks and adjustments. A steel-framed structure has plenty of advantages over the conventional wood-framed building

Steel framing benefits for builders includes, high quality steel buildings, greater design flexibilities, long term price stability, less wastage, dimensionally stable, assured quality, eliminate insect damage, withstands wind and seismic loads caused by hurricanes and earthquakes, no costly call back and adjustments, easy to Panelize offsite under controlled conditions, easy install and reduced risks on job site, pre assembled, and finally a cleaner jobsite.

For building owners steel framing gives the following benefits, such as, healthy durable material, healthier living, non-toxic, allergy free, no wastage, recyclable, fire safety, lower insurance premiums, fire retardant, withstands high winds, more durable in hurricanes and earthquakes.

Steel framing is very strong and will not burn. Steel framing is stronger than wood framing and more resistant to fire, earthquake and tornado damage, and can cost less to insure. Walls, floors and roofs consistently stay straight when built with steel framing. Steel frames can reduce air leakage and energy costs. Construction time is typically reduced, when comparing to the traditional structures. Precutting and prefabrication requires less skilled labor on construction site.

There are various steel framing methods avail using, heavy steel framing, and lighter gauge galvanized steel framing. The major steel-framed building manufacturers offer many standard metal building plans. They can design all the steel framing to match your architects metal building plans. Steel is a strong, durable, and economical building material. Steel framing is a wise choice for your metal building project.


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