Light Steel Frame News

Leeds based offsite specialists Sigmat have announced the appointment of two new directors to further strengthen their innovative leadership team. Internationally renowned offsite innovator and sustainability veteran Nick Milestone joins the...

PMJ Risk Solutions are delighted to now be a full consultant member of the Light steel frame association and the go to Insurance Broker for any member requiring assistance with their contractors insurance. PMJ bring with them over 50 years’...

Rarely does an event get such overwhelmingly positive feedback in its launch year but Offsite Expo certainly exceeded expectations. The commendations for this event were universal – visitors, sponsors, speakers and exhibitors all...

Utilising light steel frame as the principle structural component in a building creates many design opportunities. To help understand this better, the Light Steel Frame Association (LSFA) has launched a new Specification &...

Mark Lawson and Andrew Way of the Steel Construction Institute (SCI) discuss issues related to fire resistance of buildings and introduce upcoming new SCI guidance on the fire resistance of light steel framing. Since the Grenfell...

Frank and forthright discussions were the order of the day at a recent Focus on Framing virtual roundtable, seeking to identify many of the key drivers for the specification and sustainability of light steel frame within the offsite...

London’s tower builders have been put on notice after British Land submitted long-awaited proposals for a 37-storey office tower at its Broadgate development in the Square Mile designed by Danish architect 3XN. Sir Robert McAlpine has been...

Light steel structures fully comply with the requirements of the Building Regulations and leading warranty providers. Performance covers structural, fire, acoustics, thermal, airtightness, weathertightness, shrinkage, programme and accuracy. Here...

A DUDLEY business which has been growing strongly despite the pandemic decided it should ‘give something back’ – so it signed up to pay the Real Living Wage to staff. Frameclad, based on the Pensnett Trading Estate in Kingswinford, aims...

Henley Construct, a division of the Henley Homes Group, has completed the transformation of a former council office site in Wembley, building 248 new apartments and retail space using offsite construction. The new apartments and 560m2 of retail...

An in-depth new NHBC Foundation report on how the role of Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) has evolved within the house-building industry has just been released. Prefabricated homes have been long-heralded as the future of house building;...

LSFA members Sigmat and McCarthy & Stone have entered into a major partnership to deliver new retirement communities using Sigmat’s Light Gauge Steel Framing (LGSF) offsite structural solution. Following a detailed selection process, Sigmat...

Essex based firm Vega Construction Group has launched a “factory in a can” to manufacture steel frames on site, installing a Framecad light gauge steel frame roll forming machine into a shipping container. It means the system can...

Utilising light steel frame as the principle structural component in a building creates many design opportunities. Engaging the manufacturer's design team early ensures that their knowledge and expertise in the use of the system permeates...