Steel Framing

Why Steel?

That's a good question. Fortunately, the answer is even better. Residential steel framing is a solid investment because it's cost-effective, creates a safe and strong structure and is durable.

Speaking of safety, did you know that a steel home performs better and can be designed to withstand earthquakes and hurricanes?

Though they'll try their best, termites cannot infest steel. That means your steel framed home is impervious to termite damage to the frame.

What about appearance? Because of its strength, steel offers increased design flexibility, accommodating larger open spaces without interior load-bearing walls. So feel free to choose any look you like, from traditional to contemporary to avant-garde.

Interested in remodeling your steel framed home? Go for it. Non-load bearing walls can be easily removed, altered or relocated, so if you ever want to remodel, it's easy to do.

With its durability, steel framing is longer lasting. In fact, it has one of the highest strength to weight ratios of any construction material. It won't crack, warp, twist, rot, split or settle like wood framing might.

Steel framed homes can be finished in almost any kind of material, too - like stucco, wood, brick, siding or any other material you have in mind.

Recycling

There are many environmental benefits of owning a steel framed home.

Did you know steel is 100 percent recyclable? That means yesterday's scrapped car can become today's steel framed home. And it can one day become a refrigerator.

A typical 2,000-square-foot house requires about 40 to 50 trees (about an acre), while a steel framed house can be made from only eight recycled cars.

That same 2,000-square-foot steel framed house can generate as little as one cubic yard of recyclable scrap during construction, which helps to reduce costs.

In the last decade more than one trillion pounds of steel scrap have been recycled and kept out of our landfills.

Steel framing contains at least 28 percent recycled steel and is completely recyclable. Steel products can be recycled repeatedly without degradation or loss of strength.

Unlike other building materials, steel is routinely collected from construction and demolition sites and recycled into new steel products.

The overall recycling rate of the steel industry is 66%. That's the highest of any industry in North America. And it offers you an environmentally sound home framing alternative.