Load Bearing Wall Panels
- Ideal construction method for hotels, assisted living facilities, dormitories/student housing and multifamily structures.
- Panels are framed with structural cold-formed steel studs and additional structural supports can be included within the panel framing to include: structural steel columns/beams, strapping or sureboard sheathing to handle sheer and exterior sheathing.
- Load bearing cold-formed steel structures can support structures from 1 to 10 stories.
- If commitments are made early in the design and construction process, framing schedule has ability to be reduced by up to 75%.
- Reduces amount of jobsite manpower needed for the incorporated scopes of work by 75%.
- Panels can be engineered as a composite system to reduce material costs and installation labor.
- Generally designed in a floor-to-floor configuration.
- The prefabrication allows for better coordination and improved efficiencies with plumbing and mechanical trades.
- Incorporates and provides higher level of quality control.
- Dependent on the project, windows and exterior finishes may also be pre-installed onto panel reducing scaffold or lift requirements, as well as improving schedule.