Wall Bearing Steel Framing

Load bearing wall construction by marty williams with an introduction and conclusion by bill soldano the nineties will witness a marked increase in the demand for steel framed load bearing systems.

Wall bearing steel framing.

Wall tech is a cfs enclosure contractor. If you can t find steel studs at your home center or lumberyard check with suppliers that cater to builders look in the yellow pages under dry wall equipment and supplies. We take an integrated system approach to load bearing cold metal framing for wall panels floors and roof systems. Our work typically includes the entire enclosure structure above the foundation or podium except for concrete stair and.

The depletion of our forests lumber shortages and price increases will make steel framing more appealing. Structural walls the structural design of the building should ensure adequate resistance to loadings including dead loads imposed loads wind loads and snow loads in accordance with. The framework is usually of steel or reinforced concrete but in small usually single storey structures they may be of timber or even aluminium. Clarkdietrich cold formed c studs produced to astm c955 standards for axial load bearing and curtain wall framing are pre punched with knockouts at regular intervals specifically designed to allow for rapid installation of pipes electrical conduit and wall bridging.

All of these c studs and tracks are manufactured from the highest quality g40 hot dipped galvanized steel ranging in thicknesses from 15 mils up to 33 mils. Fast and accurate wall framing in this video pro builder mike norton teaches fast and accurate wall framing and shares time saving tips for laying out assembling and raising walls. These load bearing walls are usually built in masonry but they can be of reinforced concrete too. Guidance can be found in section 6 3 of sci publication p402 light steel framing in residential construction.

Wall bearing steel framing system. Item 61149 model 226707. The answer is load bearing cold formed steel framing cfs. The future of framing is here we re extremely efficient at framing houses nowadays but the way we frame them is extremely inefficient.

Wall bearing should be adequately strong to not only be able to carry vertical reactions but also to resist any imposed horizontal loads. These lightweight studs are designed for stud wall framing interior nonweight bearing walls walls that don t support floors or the roof. In the load bearing structure the wall itself is load bearing.