FASTER     

FASTER PERMIT APPROVALS                                          
     Building with steel is much faster then building with wood starting at the very beginning. Designing the home can take weeks to months to complete. In most cases it takes several months for an  architect to draft a set of plans for a wood frame home. The engineering can take a few more months, and before you know it your six months down the road. Now your  ready to deal with the local building department that can take several more months to approve you project and were now a year older and haven't broke ground yet. Once our customer has approved the design of the home, our steel framed homes come with certified structural plans & engineering included. This takes weeks not months, and now where ready for submittal to the building department. Our last wood framed home took a year and three months to have permits approved through the local building department, however we just had a 3000 SF. steel framed home approved in twenty three days. There are several different reasons this happens. First when you submit plans for a wood frame home to the building department you have an engineer checking the plans for approval. They are facing off against the engineer who engineered the plans which results in corrections to be made. This is not because something was wrong ,but only because you have to different engineering opinions of how something is to be done. Unfortunately this takes a lot of time, thus causing delays.  Our steel homes are designed and certified to the criteria of the MBMA building standards which are much tougher standards then the local building department standards. The building departments recognize the certified engineering as superior process the plans very quickly. Combined with our high efficiency green building status we appreciate an accelerated permit approval process.                         

FASTER BUILDING PROCESS                                                                                     
    When building with wood every piece has to be checked as even cut lumber is inaccurately cut. This is a waste of time and resources. Steel on the other hand is absolute in it's manufacturing. Every piece is the exact size every time which yields a faster building process. Our homes are considered modular in the since that the structural framing is cut and fabricated in the factory and sent to the job site for assembly. This makes for a much quicker building process. In the steel building process we do not have to wait for set and settling factors like wood framed homes as the steel stays right where we set it and never moves. that means we can keep moving undelayed.  Steel framing comes with pre-drilled holes and cutouts which allows much quicker installation of  electrical, plumbing etc.