SBCA Builds House on National Mall in 12 Hours
Thank you for exploring the many advantages manufactured components offer - we hope you've learned more about the best way to frame.
Timelapse Video
This house was fully framed in less than twelve hours using the most cost-efficient, high-quality and labor-saving framing method. Manufactured components are specifically designed and efficiently produced for each and every house – enabling endless layout possibilities only limited by your budget.
When you’re ready to embrace a more material-, cost-, and time-efficient framing solution, component manufacturers are ready to work with you.
Stick Framing vs. Component Framing
Framing this house with manufactured components enables significant cost savings to the home builder over traditional framing methods.
Total Savings: $20,495
Savings that can be passed on to the home buyer!
| Stick Framing | Component Framing | |
| Framing Materials | $18,694 | $15,908 |
| Hardware | $1,294 | $1,294 |
| Windows & Doors | $2,387 | $2,387 |
| Framing Labor | $29,684 | $11,975 |
| Total | $52,059 | $31,564 |
Advantages to Components
Overcome Material & Labor Shortages
Material availability and cost, and onsite labor shortages, continue to challenge builders. Manufactured components address both challenges, because advanced offsite production uses less people and materials to build more resilient, energy-efficient and affordable houses.
This framing methodology is available to you today. Component manufacturers service 100% of the US – anyone can leverage the benefits of offsite manufacturing right now.
No matter your lifestyle, desired square footage, or preferred options – manufactured components can frame any floor plan.
Build More Resilient Structures
Manufactured components do more than speed up construction cycle time. They’re designed specifically to exceed load requirements, resulting in higher-quality and more resilient structures. They can also be designed to better accommodate today’s advanced insulative materials for a more energy-efficient structure.
Adapt to Building Code Changes Quickly
Any force you need to resist can be designed into the components and manufactured exactly to that plan. Manufactured components offer a better-performing structure – with no shortcuts. Because manufactured components are individually designed and fabricated framing solutions, they’re adaptable to changes in building codes to achieve the resiliency, sustainability and performance required – anywhere in the country. Thanks to today’s advanced design software and manufacturing techniques, framing components can incorporate everything from pre-installed doors and windows to electrical conduit, plumbing fixtures, and air ducts, further increasing jobsite cycle times.
When you’re ready to embrace a more material-, cost-, and time-efficient framing solution, component manufacturers are ready to work with you.
Thank you to the SBCA & NFC members that made this showcase exhibit possible:
Components
- Shelter Systems Limited
- Annandale Millwork & Allied Systems
Windows, Doors, Hardware, and Material
- 84 Lumber
- Builders FirstSource
- Simpson Strong-Tie
- Huber Engineered Wood
- LMC
- Modu-Tech
- Morse Lumber Company
- SENCO
- US LBM
Framing Labor
- Ace Carpentry
- Nomad Framing
Plans
- Apex
- Belit
- True Design Studios
Marketing Support
- MiTek
Financial Support
- American Truss
- Dynamic Construction
- Dixie Component Systems
- Louws Truss
- TrussWorks LLC
- Whelan Advisory
