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At 4–5 stories, wood and cold-formed steel (CFS) can both work for multifamily. Above that, light wood framing mostly runs out of room under the.

Data center schedules do not leave much room for figuring it out in the field. Structural steel, busway, cable tray, ductwork, and rated walls all.

For decades, wood framing has been the default choice for mid-rise multifamily construction. It is familiar, widely available, and perceived as the.

When a GC or developer hears “prefab,” a few assumptions still walk into the first meeting. Cookie-cutter. Expensive. Rigid. Only for warehouses..

Walk a half-empty downtown office plate and you can feel why owners keep asking about apartments. National office vacancy has been hovering near.

Open a mid-rise apartment model and the stud line is rarely the line that kills the deal. Interest does. General conditions do. The month both the.

On most mid-rise multifamily jobs, insurance sits in the developer’s or owner’s bucket. Framing gets priced in the GC’s. Those costs almost never.

People still ask me where prefab will be in ten years. I would rather talk about the next deal on your desk. Mid-rise multifamily is already running.

When CFS lands on a developer’s short list for a mid-rise multifamily job, it rarely starts with “we love steel.” It starts with “wood caps us a.