Category: Metal framing
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Why Is Brad Cooper Becoming Southern Arizona’s Go-To Builder for Cold-Formed Steel?
Learn how Brad Cooper’s decades of custom homebuilding experience and firsthand work with cold-formed steel help Southern Arizona builders shorten the learning curve when adopting steel framing.
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Why Does a General Contractor Care About a BIM-Generated Material List?
General Contractor Brad Cooper of MC² Homes explains why a BIM-generated material list from FrameUpNow gives builders better information before construction begins.
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What Did 20+ Years of Homebuilding Teach Brad Cooper About Building Better Homes?
Brad Cooper has been building custom homes since 1997. Here are five lessons decades of homebuilding taught him about framing, predictability, BIM, and building better homes.
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Steel Framing From a Builder’s Perspective
Brad Cooper of MC² Homes explains what homeowners should ask about engineering, BIM, manufacturing, delivery, assembly, field coordination, and quality control before choosing a cold-formed steel framing system.
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What Can an Experienced General Contractor Teach Homeowners About Choosing a House Frame?
Learn which questions homeowners should ask about engineering, accuracy, material quantities, revisions, and builder experience before choosing a house framing system.
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What Are the Hidden Costs of Traditional Wood Framing?
Brad Cooper of MC² Homes explains why wood framing should be evaluated beyond its material price, including labor, waste, field adjustments, schedule pressure, accuracy, and rework.
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Why Does a General Contractor Care About a BIM-Generated Material List?
Brad Cooper of MC² Homes explains how a BIM-generated material list gives a General Contractor project-specific information for purchasing, scheduling, waste, budgeting, coordination, and change management.
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Why General Contractors Choose Cold-Formed Steel Over Wood Framing
For most homeowners, the choice between wood framing and cold-formed steel can seem like a technical decision. For an experienced general contractor, it is much more than that — it affects the way a house is built, the predictability of the construction process, the materials that arrive at the jobsite, the amount of waste and…
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What Does a General Contractor See in Cold-Formed Steel That Homeowners Don’t?
A homeowner sees a beautiful finished house. A general contractor sees the thousands of decisions, measurements, materials, and construction steps that had to come together to create it — and that difference matters when evaluating a framing system. Homeowners naturally focus on what they can see: the floor plan, the windows, the finishes, the kitchen,…
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What Happens When a Builder Knows the Frame Is Right Before Construction Begins?
Why engineering, digital coordination, and material clarity can change the starting point of a project Cold-formed steel framing at the jobsite: the physical frame is where the digital design becomes real. Construction uncertainty is expensive. Every unanswered question that survives into the construction phase has the potential to become a field decision. And field decisions…