Engineered Wall Panels
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Why Use Wall Panels?
• Quality:
•We design each building with a “real time” parametric 3-d software that
allows us to analyze the building as it is being designed.
•Savings:
•The dry-in time for a house using wall panels is significantly shorter than
stick framing. This saves money in construction costs.
•The simplicity of erecting a panelized home allows for a less experienced
construction crew, saving cost of labor and costly mistakes from field
decisions.
•Far less scrap material is generated on a jobsite using panelized walls.
This saves money in waste scrap and in dumpster rental and removal.
•Safety:
•Panelization reduces the amount of lumber being cut on a jobsite.
Thereby, reducing injuries resulting from cutting lumber.
The “real time” 3-d capabilities of our wall panel software
allows us to analyze the entire structure while we design it.
After a plan is finalized, it is sent to one of our local
manufacturing plants, for assembly.
Wall panels are built in jigs to insure squareness and
reduce racking.
Exterior sheathing is applied in the factory. This saves time
and money in the field, and reduces racking during shipping.
Wall panels are labeled,…
…stacked into bundles…
…and staged at our plant until your jobsite is ready for
delivery.
Once the foundation is completed, your site is ready to
have the panels delivered.
While your jobsite must have adequate space for staging the
wall panels, the walls are bundled in a space-saving method.
Sections of the house are bundled together to facilitate
erection.
With the foundation completed, the walls are ready to be
set. With a small crew, the panels can be moved into
location easily.
The crew lays the panels in the approximate location for
setting them.
With delivery of the wall panels, a detailed panel drawing is
provided.
The panel plan drawings make it very simple to
determine the correct location of each wall panel.
After drilling holes in the bottom plate to receive the anchors,
the crew can begin setting the wall panels upright.
The crew continues erecting adjacent wall panels, so that
they may brace one another.
If adequate information is provided, bottom plates can be
notched at the plant to accommodate plumbing drops.
With two adjacent wall panels anchored, and temporarily
braced, the crew can proceed to more panels.
The crew can now begin erecting the walls quickly. With one
team drilling bottom plates, and another team setting the
walls, erection speeds along.
Erection of the wall panels goes very quickly.
Anchoring the walls as they are erected helps to stiffen
the shell of the house.
Wing walls at garage doors can have beam pockets built
into them. This will help speed up the dry-in process.
Modular ladders are
installed at the
factory, instead of
simple tees. This
provides more
flexibility in the field
for installing interior
walls.
Provided with exact dimensions, all windows and door
rough openings are framed at the factory. Headers and
beams are sized to meet local building codes .
Interior walls are set much like exterior walls. Bracing is
used to tie the walls together during erection.
Once all load bearing walls and beams are installed, floor
trusses can be set into place and floor sheathing installed.
Upper level walls are installed in the same fashion as lower
level walls. All exterior walls are factory sheathed, with the
sheathing of the customers’ choice.
The wall package includes exterior sheathed walls and
additional sheathing, to be applied in the field, for tying upper
walls to lower walls, covering the floor system.
After all walls are erected and properly braced, the roof
trusses can be installed.
Hardware for trusses are included in the truss package.
By using roof and floor trusses in conjunction with engineered
wall panels, the dry-in time is reduced from weeks to days.
All load bearing walls, whether they are interior or exterior
walls, are designed to carry the loads imposed on them.
After all trusses are on the house, roof sheathing can be
installed.
Porch and shed roofs can be trussed as well.
In just a few days, this house has gone from a rough
slab…
…to a dried-in, fully engineered house.
The construction schedule for the house shown in the
presentation :
Monday: crew began erecting walls.
Tuesday: finish bracing/plumbing walls, add
V.T.P. to all lower level walls. Floor trusses,
for upper floor, delivered.
Wednesday: set floor trusses for upper level.
Thursday: set upper level walls, plumb all
walls. Roof trusses delivered.
Friday: add V.T.P. to upper walls, set roof
trusses.
Saturday: sheath roof
Thank you for taking the time to view this
presentation. For more information about roof or
floor trusses, and engineered wall panels please
contact your local office.
Raleigh: 1-800-473-8787
Newport News: 1-800-868-8787
Fayetteville: 1-800-537-7004
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