New Building Techniques

The Structural Building Components Association (SBCA) recently announced the results of the 2015 Framing the United states Dream (craze) research. What the researchers found will come as a surprise.

Last year, SBCA built two identical 2, 900-square-foot homes—one utilizing standard stick-built construction, plus one using building components—to compare the amount of labor hours, board feet utilized, and waste accumulated (in cubic yards) for each house.

In this situation study, and in initial one, that has been conducted two decades ago, the building component home ended up being considerably better in all three categories. Now, the analysis showed that:

• It can take 75percent even more lumber wood item to stick framework a construction than to frame it with components.
• A stick-framed home produces nearly 30 times even more jobsite waste than a component-framed residence.

“Without a doubt, Framing the United states fantasy ended up being perhaps one of the most beneficial things SBCA features ever before done, ” said Jason Blenker, president of Blenker Building techniques and a previous seat of the NAHB Building techniques Councils. “The method by which this study was undertaken should open the eyes of builders to the value of taking component framing for their specific task.”