Advantages of Steel Framing
Sustainable Building Solutions
Discover how sustainable building practices can transform construction. With steel framing, you’re choosing a material that is recyclable and one of the most reused across the globe. Steel offers unmatched strength and durability, making it a smart choice for eco-conscious builders looking to minimize their carbon footprint.
Eco-friendly Options
Our eco-friendly options prioritize sustainability. These solutions help reduce waste and energy consumption, reinforcing your vision for a greener future.
Energy Efficiency
This service focuses on boosting energy efficiency in your projects. By using advanced materials and techniques, we help lower operational costs and improve performance.
Durability and Strength
Our solutions emphasize the strength of steel framing, ensuring that your structures remain safe and resilient over time, minimizing maintenance needs.
Recyclability Benefits
We highlight the recyclability of steel, allowing projects to contribute to a circular economy. This choice not only benefits the environment but also signifies your commitment to sustainability.
Low Carbon Footprint
This service focuses on reducing the overall carbon footprint through sustainable practices. By using less energy and materials, we ensure that every project is an opportunity to care for our planet.
Innovation in Design
Our innovative design approaches leverage sustainable materials and methods. This not only elevates the aesthetic of your project but also aligns with environmentally responsible practices.
Member length
Steel joists can be manufactured to any practical length, thereby enabling the entire width of the typical residential building to the spanned continuously. This eliminates the need for interior lap joints, thus speeding up construction and reducing potential for cracking or roughness in floor finishes over interior supports. Member length is limited only by shipping and transportation restrictions.
High strength to weight ratio
LSF members are lighter per unit length than traditional framing members. LSF is easier for framers to lift on the job site. This may lead to faster and less costly building construction with fewer lifting-related injuries.
Member thickness
The inherent strength of cold formed steel provides a great deal of flexibility in the layout of framing members. Due to the low self-weight per unit length and the strength of steel, steel joists can span longer distances than traditional framing materials of the same depth and width. By increasing the base steel thickness, the strength and therefore the design span of the framing member is increased. In some cases these longer spans allow the designer to eliminate interior supporting beams or walls.
This means more open and unobstructed interior spaces for the end user and potentially lower construction costs for the builder.
Moisture-related problems
Steel does not absorb water, so the moisture-related problems of warping, shrinking and twisting that are common to more traditional framing products are not a problem with LSF. The use of LSF can drastically reduce or eliminate the incidence of squeaking subfloors, warped walls, nail pops and cracked drywall since these problems are generally caused by the moisture- related movement of the framing.
Member thickness
The inherent strength of cold formed steel provides a great deal of flexibility in the layout of framing members. Due to the low self-weight per unit length and the strength of steel, steel joists can span longer distances than traditional framing materials of the same depth and width. By increasing the base steel thickness, the strength and therefore the design span of the framing member is increased. In some cases these longer spans allow the designer to eliminate interior supporting beams or walls.
This means more open and unobstructed interior spaces for the end user and potentially lower construction costs for the builder.
Moisture-related problems
Steel doesn’t absorb water, so LSF (Light Steel Framing) avoids common moisture-related issues like warping, shrinking, and twisting found in traditional framing. This means fewer problems like squeaky subfloors, warped walls, nail pops, and cracked drywall. Repairing these issues post-construction is costly, making LSF construction a cost-saving option. Additionally, steel’s resistance to moisture means LSF members arrive straight and true, eliminating the need to sort and crown traditional framing members.
Vermin and rot resistance
Steel framing immune to termite attack or damage from insects, rodents, or other vermin. As well, since steel framing does not absorb moisture, it does not support the growth of destructive, parasitic and biohazardous moulds and fungi.
Electrical and plumbing friendly
Steel framing comes with pre-punched holes in floor joists and wall studs, making electrical and plumbing installation quick and easy. Plastic grommets approved by the Canadian Standards Association (CSA) snap into these holes, allowing the use of standard plastic-coated wiring instead of costlier metal-armored cable. Grommets also insulate plumbing from steel framing, preventing chafing, vibration, or electrolytic action between the LSF and pipes.
