Panelized Wall Framing

All shop drawings and panel connections are engineered and approved by the project architect prior to the start of panel fabrication.

Panelized wall framing.

If the home has a concrete foundation it is installed prior to the delivery of the amwood framing package. Substantially less time is required to assemble prefabricated construction projects minimizing all those extra costs associated with site management maintenance and insurance. Generally approximately 50 of the walls in a building will be load bearing metal stud panels with the other 50 being non bearing stick built metal stud partitions. Discover our high quality panelized homes.

Today s panelized home building systems retain the best aspects of stick frame construction. Wall panels prefabricated wall panels provide an excellent alternative to traditional stick framing. The wall panels are pre fabricated off site in a panelization plant in advance and delivered to the job site when needed. In my opinion wall panels aren t used more frequently for the exact reason that roof trusses are used.

Within a wall panel steel framing members are attached to each other and to the foam with adhesives applied to the interior surfaces of the framing members. Wall panels improve efficiency reduce waste and increase structural integrity. Complete framing solutions for residential and multi family home builders. Great rooms serve many purposes in a timber frame home.

A key ingredient in the success of the infinity structural system is the pre panelized load bearing metal stud walls. The typical crew has the skills to build walls from plans and they re compensated accordingly while they typically don t have the skills to hand frame the complex roofs of today s homes and again are compensated accordingly. Our prefab walls speed up construction on site and drastically minimizes waste. There are 3 major components delivered to the job site.

Our framing systems consist of. Polystyrene foam with density ranging between 1 0 and 1 5 lbs ft3 provides insulation and some structural function. They are easy to install and can be engineered for a variety of wall applications and heights. Pre panelized load bearing metal stud walls.

Engineered floor system interior exterior walls and the roof trusses. The only difference between them is the house on the left was stick framed on site while the house on the right was framed using floor trusses wall panels and roof trusses. The video provides clear proof that structural components are the better way to frame. Framing crews are set up to site build the walls i e.

Through our panelized framing construction services we offer multiple solutions for builders like you your trade partners and your home buyers. Panelization is the prefabrication of exterior or interior wall assemblies manufactured in a controlled environment using conventional building components. Panelized wall systems are ideal for minimizing workforce requirements reducing workforce overheads or when larger crews are not available. In markets where labor is neither cheap nor plentiful there is heavy wall panelization.

Interior and exterior wall panels.