Home | Beginnings | Flood | Foundation pour | Blocks & tanks | Cistern
Stacking| Prep for wall pour | Wall pour | Floor beams | Floor pan | Floor pour
Stacking II | Interior walls | Moving up | Decks | Upstairs | Roof | Roof II
Dogrun | Roof III | Sticks 'n stones | Decks II | Floors & windows | Sheetrock & stairs
Railing & siding | Texture & metal | Exterior | Cabinets & floors | Counters & such
Rainwater system | Dogrun II | Final stuff

Green Building | Technologies | Credits
Spaceframe side trip

A side trip...

We've been impressed with both the quality and installation speed of the Spaceframe system being used for many of our walls, ceilings and floors. When the opportunity arose to visit the Berridge facility in Seguin, we jumped at the chance.

CADD/CAM software is first used to create a 3D model of a building which is then imported into special software that converts the 3D model into precisely detailed frame components. The software then drives a roll former that fabricates the frame components from rolled steel.

Photo - 3/04/03
The computer-driven roll steel former is capable
of producing over 1000 linear feet
of steel framing members per hour.


Photo - 3/04/03
A roll of steel feeds the roll former...

Photo - 3/04/03
...which shapes the framing member...

Photo - 3/04/03
...punches holes and cuts the member
to length. Each component is marked
with an identifying code.


Photo - 3/04/03
Framing members are assembled by hand...

Photo - 3/04/03
...and then riveted together,
in this case to form a wall section.


Photo - 3/04/03
Talk about a "hands-on" owner!



Home | Beginnings | Flood | Foundation pour | Blocks & tanks | Cistern
Stacking| Prep for wall pour | Wall pour | Floor beams | Floor pan | Floor pour
Stacking II | Interior walls | Moving up | Decks | Upstairs | Roof | Roof II
Dogrun | Roof III | Sticks 'n stones | Decks II | Floors & windows | Sheetrock & stairs
Railing & siding | Texture & metal | Exterior | Cabinets & floors | Counters & such
Rainwater system | Dogrun II | Final stuff

Green Building | Technologies | Credits
Spaceframe side trip




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