FORTEK® -A STEEL HOMES LGSF SYSTEM
BENEFITS OF FORTEK®
We provide bespoke solutions
- Our design solutions are unique to your project requirements
- We streamline the design process to create efficiencies and add value
Flexible design solutions
- Multistorey Buildings
- Student Accommodation
- Hotels
- Houses
- Garden Rooms
- Granny Annexes
- Domestic Home Extensions
- Loft Conversions
3 levels of corrosion prevention
- Prevention: Warm frame construction
- Protection: Steel is galvanized with zinc (Z275). Predicted life expectancy is to be more than 250 years
- Sacrificial layer: Zinc galvanizing will corrode before the main steel structure
Reduced carbon footprint
- Considerable reduction in onsite waste material, and up to 20% reduction in embodied carbon in building fabric.
- Steel is wholly recyclable
Weather resilience
- Installation unaffected by weather
- Properties of steel unaffected when wet unlike timber or masonry
- LGSF structure can be made weatherproof very quickly
- Optimum building performance with LGSF construction
- 30% project programme efficiency resulting in a reduction of site resources
- LGSF construction provides a simple foundation solution, therefore, less material-intensive
- Offsite manufacture enables quicker site installation
- Removes external envelope from the critical path
- Reduces trade numbers on site
- Reduces interface issues
Approximately 20% cost saving when all of the following is considered:
- Structural frame
- External envelope fill
- Internal wall studs
- Quicker return on investment
- Steel does not shrink, warp or change shape
- There are no differential settlement issues using LGSF structures
- Design life for steel frame in a warm environment is in excess of 250 years
- LGSF construction can be used for walls, floors, roofs, suspended ground floors
- Steel is non-combustible
- LGSF structure does not add to fire load
- Steel maintains its 50% strength at 500 degrees
- Can be installed in restricted working conditions
- Not dependant on cranes
- Does not require a highly skilled labour force to install
- Simplifies foundations
- Council of mortgage lenders recognise LGSF as a construction technology to build homes.
- LGSF is considered a Modern Method of Construction that is wholly encouraged by the government to build new homes.