Prefabricated Cold-Formed Steel Panels Cut Costs, Speed Construction of 7-Story Tucson Apartments
Popular - Structural | 02 - 11 - 2025
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FRAMECAD Explains Shift from Traditional Design to DfMA with Cold-Formed Steel Framing
Popular - Prefabrication - 02 - 11 - 2025
Steel Framing Industry Association (SFIA) member FRAMECAD explains why Design for Manufacture and Assembly paired with cold-formed steel framing reduces risk and improves building outcomes. For decades, construction teams...
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Prefabricated Cold-Formed Steel Panels Cut Costs, Speed Construction of 7-Story Tucson Apartments
Popular - Structural - 02/11/2025
Just-in-time CFS panelization helps overcome site constraints to deliver the framing of the West Point Apartments II faster and...
R.A. Smith Wins CFSEI Award for Hybrid Steel Design at Luxury Chicago Apartment Building
Structural - 02/11/2025
R.A. Smith received the CFSEI 2023 second place award, residential/hospitality category, for its hybrid cold-formed steel (CFS) framing and...
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How Blast Testing Advances Cold-Formed Steel Design: New ASCE Research Released
Popular - Roof Trusses - 02/11/2025
A new ASCE technical paper presents the measured responses of components of an instrumented, full-scale, cold-formed steel (CFS) framed building subjected to open-arena blast testing. The American Society of Civil Engineers’ Journal of Structural Engineering has published a new technical paper,...
Conversion to Steel: ADTEK Wins SFIA Award for Wagner College Locker Rooms
Popular - Roof Trusses - 02/11/2025
ADTEK Engineers earned the 2024 SFIA Award for Wagner College’s new locker rooms, a conversion from wood to steel framing, showcasing the strength, efficiency and light weight nature of cold-formed steel (CFS). Featured image: The locker rooms at Wagner...
Steel Framed Home Built in 3 Days Serves as Prototype for Humanitarian Relief in Armenia
Roof Trusses - 02/11/2025
LA firm Form Found Design delivers hope to Armenian families by using cold-formed steel (CFS) framing and FRAMECAD design and construction technology to build a durable custom home prototype in just 3 days. Photo Credits: Form Found Design Los Angeles-based...
CFS Trusses by MiTek® Steel Framing Accelerate Construction Schedules
Popular - Roof Trusses - 02/11/2025
SFIA member MiTek® Steel Framing recently completed two multi-million dollar projects in Arizona and Alabama, installing cold-formed steel (CFS) roof trusses in record time, while obtaining a perfect safety record. Photo of Great Wolf Lodge in Scottsdale, courtesy of...
Prefabricated Steel Panels Boost Quality and Construction Speed for Church and Retirement Community Projects
Roof Trusses - 02/11/2025
Two projects, a Latter-day Saints church in Australia and a retirement community in Canada, show how prefabricated cold-formed steel (CFS) wall and roof truss systems help ensure straight and accurate construction and improved construction schedules versus wood framing and...
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Light Yet Mighty: Steel’s Strength-to-Weight Surpasses Wood and Concrete
Popular - Structural - 02/11/2025
Cold-formed steel (CFS) framing’s strength-to-weight ratio surpasses traditional materials like wood and concrete, enabling efficient construction, reduced costs and...
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