It doesn’t require the complexity of service-heavy follow-up trades by taking advantage of large pre-cut service and wiring openings.It allowed the team to keep the speed without sacrificing quality. This is a robust system with a simplified installation compared to steel or wood. This particular project utilized a TotalJoist system from iSpan Systems. Cold-form steel construction has been around since 1850 but has seen continuous innovation since then.Therefore, it is ideal for all kinds of soil conditions. The foundations for this building cost less than the contemporary wood or steel structure because it has less weight to hold. Use of this structural system has an indirect cost savings in foundations work as well. The weight to strength ratio allowed us to use it for five floors of structural load-bearing and non-load-bearing walls (64,000 square feet) while keeping the supporting structures light. The cold-formed panelized framing system was the perfect solution as it is pre-fabricated, versatile and durable. Summit Design + Build, alongside the development team and the project engineers were looking into the most compatible structural system to use for the 6-story residential building project at 6145 N. After Summit Design + Build’s successful completion and on-time delivery of Edge on Broadway, a 6-story residential building project in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood, it only felt right to pen down our lessons and experiences with a critical component that made an economic and on-time delivery possible – COLD FORM METAL PANELS.