Light Gauge Metal Framing Wall Type Advantages And Disadvantages

Steel framing produces far less on site waste than wood framing making debris removal less costly.

Light gauge metal framing wall type advantages and disadvantages.

While it will maintain structural integrity metal. What are the disadvantages. Metal framing is not as strong as wood another drawback when framing with metal is the overall strength of light gauge galvanized steel. Also since it goes to recycling facilities the waste can even produce some income to offset project costs.

Steel framing is often seen as a way of saving our forests but it also contains a lot of virgin material. It offers several advantages such as buildability strength design flexibility sustainability and light in weight which makes it easy to handle and hence increase speed. On the other hand new wood framing materials are mostly engineered products made with agricultural and wood wastes. And wood may come from sustainable harvested forests fsc certified while steel production is very energy intensive.

Environmental advantages and disadvantages steel studs are 100 recyclable and light gauge steel framing has about 20 25 recycled content. Adequate fire protection must be used. And quality of construction. Light gauge steel frame construction is an innovative and reliable construction method which is broadly used in the world and has surpassed wood frame construction in many design and construction aspects.

In buildings finished in and furnished with combustible materials cladding must be with class a fire rated materials. Light gauge steel will lose strength in the advent of fire.