Why a Steel Frame Home?
Steel Frame Homes provide exceptional advantages to builders, designers and ultimately to the homeowner.
These include the speed of construction, versatility in design, and accuracy in construction. All of these add up to cost advantages to the homeowner.
Design Flexibility
Each structural member is designed to perform a specific design purpose, this allows our designers and architects greater creativity.
You are no longer limited to the physical span of a piece of timber.
Strength of Steel
A home with "heart" of steel is designed to stand the test of time, even in extreme weather climates.
The inherent strength and durability of steel provide structural integrity in all types of environments and conditions - from cyclone and Hurricane regions in the US and Australia to Earthquake and seismic regions in New Zealand and Japan. A steel-framed home can be designed to withstand all that the weather can throw at it.
The walls of each home are its backbone and strength, they are designed to withhold the vertical dead and live loads of the roof and above floors, but they perform equally as well at the same time in securing the holding down of the above floors and roof in the event of severe high winds.
This advantage is often overlooked, but each stud of a steel frame home acts equally in holding up the home as it does holding down the home. Other construction methods create this artificially, adding to the cost and complexity of the construction process.
Termite Proof
Steel Frame Homes provide the owner with a 100% insect proof home. They are completely termite resistant, meaning the homeowner benefits from not needing any chemical or barrier proofing to be added to the structure both during or after construction.
This contributes to the cost-saving advantages of Steel Frame Home construction, its environmentally friendly nature and sustainability.
Non-Combustible
Steel Frame Homes are non-combustible and when combined with non-combustible fire claddings, such as aerated concrete panels, provide a superior fire protective form of construction.
Recycled Materials
Steel frames can be made from recyclable steel coils.
Steel is one of the most recycled materials on the planet.
Precision off-site manufacturing
Precision manufacturing occurs off site in a controlled environment, ensuring quality production.
Unnecessary transport to site and logistic costs are minimised.
Speed of Construction
One of the greatest advantages of steel framing is the ability to be erected by a local workforce.
This is another cost-saving, especially in remote or regional locations.