Prefabricated steel framing outperforms wood along every dimension – reliability, cost, strength, resilience, constructability, and safety. Light-gauge steel framing furthermore enables off-site construction where in a controlled factory environment building framing can be manufactured with industrial precision and with much greater efficiency. In fact, light-gauge steel framing is the only viable off-site construction methodology given favorable strength-to-weight ratio of cold-formed steel relative to any competing alternative. For a variety of reasons, homebuilders can from time to time elect to only partially replace wood with steel framing. These may be predicated on the existing inventory of wood material, particular contractual obligations to a supplier, etc. When that is the case, Scotpanel steel framing machine offers a powerful and adaptable software-driven solution. Learn more from this video depicting an actual homebuilding project, including how to anchor a steel framed wall panel to a slab, how to connect the wood truss to an LGS wall panel, and more.
