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Publication Review

Title: Steel Framed Residential Construction: Demonstration Homes
Author: HUD, 1995
File: Free Technical Guide, PDF 1.07 MB, 56 pages
Audience: Written for builders and designers with prior knowledge of framing.

Review
Fairly extensive evaluation of light-guage steel framed residential construction through 2 demonstration homes. Home #1 is a large 7,500 sf custom home. Home #2 is a small 720 sf production type home.

Issues covered include:

• Description of each project
• Planning and materials
• Tools
• Floor framing
• Wall framing
• Roof framing
• Utility Installation
• Architectural details, barrel vault framing, coved ceilings, arches
• Builder's perpeptions, advantages and disadvantages of steel framing
• Conclusions
  

Detail drawings include:

• floor plans of each project
• exterior photos of each project
• Photos of different phases of projects
• framing details for openings

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