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STEEL FRAME HOME PACKAGESMany are the Steel home and steel frame homes for steel home ways |
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| Area Covered: USA, including Alaska & Hawaii | ||||||
| Brand Names: | 10 |  |
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| Product Lines: | 7 | Floor plans: | 17 | |||
| Models: | 42 | Specifications: | 1 | |||
| No. of US Manufacturers: | 10 | No. of US Vendors: | 7 | |||
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Description: This method is an equivalent to conventional stick frame or post & beam home design where the structural lumber is replaced by steel studs and trusses or steel posts and beams.
Light-Gauge Framing System features screw-together, galvanized stud-and-truss, grid-type construction system built on 4-foot center. Greater strength of steel frame provides additional security and safety against earthquakes, high winds, heavy snow loads, termites, storms or other natural disasters that can damage and destroy conventional wood framed housing. Also, non-flammable steel frame is substantially more resistant to the fire than wood framed prefabricated home.
Red-Iron Metal Post & Beam System features bolt-together, pre-engineered post-and-beam-type framing system that uses the red-iron steel "C" beams on 8-foot center. The prefabricated home built with this method can be single-story, two-story, and even tri-level home.Unlike conventional wood framed home that requires interior walls to support the roof, the higher strength-to-weight ratio of steel house allows to span greater distances with less material and fewer supports. The result is higher floor layout and interior design flexibility. Unlike wood, steel won't shrink, rot, warp, buckle, split, or be attacked by insects. This results in greater durability, lower long-term maintenance, higher energy efficiency and overall greater quality of this prefabricated home.
 Although steel frame is methodically very similar to wood frame method of the construction, the vast difference in construction material require builders specialized in metal construction.
American Iron & Steel Institute Steel-Frame Home Vendors by State
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