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Publication Review

Title: Field Evaluations and Recommendations for Steel Framed Homes
Author: HUD, 1996
File: Free Technical Guide, PDF 207 KB, 36 pages
Audience: Written for builders and designers with prior knowledge of framing.

Review
Evaluation of cold formed steel framing focusing on the practical installation problems builders encounter. Improve cost effectiveness of cold formed steel framing for residential construction is another goal of this guide.

Issues covered include:

• Design and planning issues
• Fastening problems
• Cutting steel on the jobsite problems
• Trusses and roof construction
• Other problems: sharp edges, flimsy, heavy, tolerances
• Manufacter involvement
• Thermal workshop, insulation, foam board issues
• Fastener workshop
• Concusions
• Steel framing fact sheets, insulating steel homes
• Steel framing fact sheet, tools and fasteners
  

Detail drawings include:

• photo of steel framing

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