Designing and building a house in the traditional way seldom goes exactly to plan. It’s usually a long, drawn out process that drags on for many months.

But a team of six people has just proved that it doesn’t have to be that way. By using new FRAMECAD technology and working smarter, they were able to build a complete FRAMECAD home in only 22 hours.

The team worked two normal 8-hour shifts and finished early on the third day. So it wasn’t really a marathon effort. It was just a simple demonstration of the speed and efficiency of building in a completely new way.

Speed and precision

The 40sqm house was built at FRAMECAD’s Research and Development facility using the full suite of FRAMECAD’s new building products.

The layout of the house was optimized to minimize material and labour usage by using FRAMECAD’s integrated design and engineering software

The new FRAMECAD F300i roll-forming machine produced the framing, and the entire building was constructed with FRAMECAD materials - framing, cladding, lining, flooring, insulation, roofing and building hardware.

The all-in-one building solution

The FRAMECAD house was designed to provide affordable housing that could be built simply and cost effectively anywhere in the world, even in areas where there is a shortage of skilled labour or materials are difficult to source.

“We deliberately planned this house and construction system so that it can be replicated in virtually any location in the world”, explains Natasha Urlich, FRAMECAD Global Marketing Manager. We are already working on a large-scale project that will utilise this design and construction programme.”

FRAMECAD for the complete building envelope

To complement the FRAMECAD framing system, a suite of wall and flooring systems have been designed to suit a wide variety of building applications. We can also give specialist advice on customising systems for applications where high performance thermal, acoustic and fire ratings are required.

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