Structural Steel

Structural Steel in the Residential Home

Steel allows us to transfer heavy loads from above across wide spans and taller heights than traditional framing and engineered lumber allows for. For example this can assist with creating larger spans in a living room, free of columns or visible drop beams in the ceiling.

Steel isn’t directly addressed in the prescriptive code, and thus requires a structural engineer to design and stamp the construction documents. Most jurisdictions we work in will check that an engineer approved the design. The majority of the homes we work on are have a fully engineered set of construction documents regardless of presence of steel, well feel this is the best way to deliver homes of the caliber we build.

Costs

Costs can add up quite quickly with structural steel, which is why we aim to identify the need for steel early in the design and budgeting phase. This is one of many reason to have your builder on board as early in the process as possible.

Photo above: ADG errects 4 steel columns in our 4 story project in Alpharetta. It would later get a series of large beams welded in once the 1st floor system was installed.