Consider using the products below to take advantage of their potential to provide one or more of the following in the homes you build: Affordability, Energy Efficiency, Quality & Durability, Environmental Performance, and Safety.
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Cold-Formed Steel Back-To-Back Header Assembly Tests
These tests investigated the structural capacity and performance of built-up header assembly configurations typically used in cold-formed steel framing.
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Combined Axial and Bending Load Tests of Fully-Sheathed Cold-Formed Steel Wall Assemblies
The purpose of this test program was to investigate the structural capacity and performance of fully-sheathed load bearing walls of cold-formed steel framing.
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Economical ICF to Cold-Formed Steel Floor Connections
This project identified and tested two fastening methods in the interest of optimizing economical connections of cold-formed steel floor systems to Insulated Concrete Form (ICF) walls.
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Innovative Residential Floor Construction: Structural Evaluation of Steel Joists with Pre-Formed Web Openings
Cold-formed steel framing (CFS) is particularly suitable for residential floor systems, because thermal issues are minimal and most floors are currently constructed of more expensive, older growth lumber to meet the loading requirements.
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Monotonic Tests of Cold-Formed Steel Shear Walls with Openings
This document presents the results of monotonic tests of 40-foot long cold-formed steel shear walls with openings
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Steel Framing Prototype Development: Final Report
The research effort described in this report explores the potential of steel framing for the construction of factory built homes that conform to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) code, or the International Residential Code (IRC), with the goal of developing technologies that are competitive with wood framing.
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Steel vs. Wood Cost Comparison: Beaufort Demonstration Homes
This report evaluates a cost comparison of steel vs. wood framing in two demonstration homes in Beaufort, South Carolina.
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Steel vs. Wood: Cost and Short Term Energy Comparison - Valparaiso Demonstration Homes
Study evaluated the cost and short-term energy comparison of steel and wood construction in the Valparaiso demonstration homes.
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TechPractices: Baycliffs, Johnson's Island, Lake Erie, OH
How can you keep homes comfortable and economical when the thermometer can plunge to -10º F in the winter and soar to100º F in the summer? The developer of the planned 375-unit development solves the problem using a steel/rigid insulation panelized system with airtight, superinsulated walls, conditioned by a highly efficient geothermal heat pump drilled into rock.
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TechPractices: Nicholas Lane Contractors, Anaheim, CA
Nicholas Lane Contractors (NLC) is a production residential and commercial framing company in southern California that specializes in both wood and steel framing.
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TechPractices: West of Pennsylvania, Brooklyn, NY
West of Pennsylvania and Spring Creek are the two neighborhoods targeted by East Brooklyn Congregations (EBC) to contain the next phase of the Nehemiah Homes Plan, which has already built more than 2,300 homes in Brooklyn.
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A Guide to Fire and Acoustic Data for Steel Floor and Wall Assemblies
Published jointly by the SFA and the Canadian Steel Construction Council, this amalgamated resource includes fire and sound data for steel floor and wall assemblies, relevant to residential and commercial construction. All fire and sound data was compiled from Underwriters’ Laboratories of Canada, National Research Council of Canada, Underwriters’ Laboratories, Gypsum Association, and Factory Mutual Research.
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AISC - American Institute of Steel Construction
The American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) is a non-profit trade association and technical institute established to serve the structural steel industry in the U.S. This site has a lot of technical information about steel and its residential uses.
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CCFSS - Center for Cold-Formed Steel Structures, University of Missouri-Rolla
The Center for Cold-Formed Steel Structures (CCFSS) brings together the technical resources of interested parties with a common goal of continued improvement of cold-formed steel design and construction. The website has plenty of technical information and resources for builders.
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Cold Formed Steel Council (CFSC)
CFSC is made up of steel component manufacturer members of WTCA who are interested in advancing the structural building component industry with a special emphasis on steel components.
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Cold-Formed Steel Engineers Institute (CFSEI)
A technical and professional resource for designers of cold-formed steel structures. If you are an engineering or design professional, the CFSEI is where you'll find the latest technical information, tips, and industry standards.
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Cold-Formed Steel Framing Standards Supplement: Prescriptive Method for One and Two Family Dwellings
Provides updates, additional design options, and information that supplement the ANSI-approved publication. Extensively updated version of previous CABO and IRC building code submittals and the Prescriptive Method 2000 Edition. Incorporates latest cost-saving developments such as the L-Header, ASCE 7-98, LRFD design, and an efficient design procedure for built-up headers.
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Cold-Formed Steel Framing Standards: General Provisions 2004 Edition
General requirements for residential and commercial construction, prescriptive and engineered design. Examples include member identification and labeling through basic tolerances such as in-line framing.
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Cold-Formed Steel Framing Standards: Lateral Design 2004 Edition
Contains design requirements for shear walls, diagonal strap bracing and diaphragms.
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Cold-Formed Steel Framing Standards: Prescriptive Method for One and Two Family Dwellings - 2001 Edi
Extensively updated version of previous CABO and IRC building code submittals and the Prescriptive Method 2000 Edition. Incorporates latest cost-saving developments such as the L-Header, ASCE 7-98, LRFD design, and an efficient design procedure for built-up headers.
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Cold-Formed Steel Framing Standards: Wall Stud Design 2004 Edition
Provides requirements for the design and installation of structural and non-structural walls in buildings.
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Cool Roof
The Metal Building Manufacturers Association (MBMA)
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Durability of Cold-Formed Steel Framing Members
The purpose of this document is to give engineers, architects,builders and homeowners a better understanding of how galvanizing (zinc and zinc-alloy coatings) provides long-term corrosion protection to cold-formed steel framing members. This document also suggests guidelines for selecting, handling and using these steels in framing applications.
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Header Design 2004 Edition
Two-part standard offers design professionals required tools to design efficient built-up and L-shaped headers.
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Light Gauge Steel Framing Publications
The Steel Framing Alliance and Cold-Formed Steel Engineers Institute offers light gauge steel framing publications for many needs and audiences including builders, general contractors, subcontractors, design professionals, homeowners, and other industry representatives, covering everything from basic steel benefits to highly technical publications required for submittal packages and design.
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Metal Building Manufacturers Association
MBMA publishes Low-Rise Building Systems Manual, offers certification programs and seminars.
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Metal Construction Publications
Find out more about metal home publications, including Metal Construction News, Metal Architecture, and Metal Home Digest.
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Resource Conservation House Video
Available at the NAHB Research Center Bookstore, this professional-quality VHS video shows the house in various phases of construction. Features shown include: cast-in-place concrete foundation forming system utilizing panels made with post-consumer polystyrene recycle; frost-protected shallow foundation under the garage slab; steel framing; wallboard containing recycled wastepaper; hard-board siding made from sawmill scrap; ceiling panels and insulation made with newsprint recycle; energy-efficient windows; earth-coupled heat pump; roof panels made from recycled computer housings; and deck materials or trim made from wood substitute products.
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Shear Wall Design Guide
Design guidelines with 1) plywood and oriented strand board (OSB) on the exterior surface, with or without gypsum wall board (GWB) on the interior wall surface, 2) GWB on both surfaces, 3) steel side, and 4) steel X-bracing on one side.
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Steel Framing Alliance
On this web site you'll find member companies of the Steel Framing Alliance that are currently working with residential steel framing - from builders, architects, engineers, and framing contractors to steel stud manufacturers, distributors, software developers, fastener manufacturers and suppliers, tool manufacturers and suppliers, and other subcontractors.
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Steel Recycling Institute
The Steel Recycling Institute (SRI), a unit of the American Iron and Steel Institute, is an industry association that promotes and sustains the recycling of all steel products. Information about construction and consumer steel recycling.
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Steel Roofing
Providing architects, contractors, and building owners with the most current information available on Galvalume Steel Roofing.
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Steel Stud Manufacturers Association
Steel Stud Manufacturers Association (SSMA)represents manufacturers, marketers, and sellers of cold-formed steel framing members to the residential and light commercial construction industry. Check our their online technical library.
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Structural Building Components Magazine
The mission of Structural Building Components Magazine is to increase the knowledge of and to promote the common interests of those engaged in manufacturing and distributing structural building components. Further, SBC strives to ensure growth, continuity and increased professionalism in our industry, and to be the information conduit by staying abreast of leading-edge issues.
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Truss Design 2004 Edition
Provides technical information and specification on cold-formed steel truss construction and applies to the design, quality assurance, installation, and testing of cold-formed steel trusses.
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