Exterior bearing
Load-bearing perimeter walls carrying roof and floor loads, with openings, headers and hold-down locations built in.
Wall panels
Structural wall panels
Bearing walls built flat on jigged tables under cover, with every opening, header and brace already in them, then delivered in the order your crew sets them.
Why panelize
A week of framing, delivered on a truck
A framer cutting walls on a slab is working off a tape, in the weather, on ground that is rarely flat. The same walls built on a jigged table come out square every time, because the table is square and the stops do not move.
The gain is not only speed. It is that the walls arrive right, so the trusses sit where the drawings said they would, and the whole package behind them stays on schedule.
- Walls go up in days instead of weeks
- Square and plumb, because they were built on a flat table
- Offcuts stay at the plant, not in a skip on your site
- Rain stops a framing crew; it does not stop a covered plant
- Fewer trades standing around waiting for the frame
What we build
Panel types
Every panel is built to your plan. These are the categories, not a catalogue.
Interior bearing
Internal walls picking up girder trusses and floor loads, framed and marked to the placement plan.
Partitions
Non-bearing interior walls. Fast, cheap to panelize in volume, and they take the layout guesswork out of the second fix.
Shear walls
Built to the engineer’s shear schedule — nailing pattern, sheathing grade and hold-downs per the detail, not per the memory of whoever is on the gun.
Gable and rake walls
Raked top plates cut to the roof pitch at the plant, so nobody is scribing a gable end on a ladder.
Tall walls
Great rooms and two-storey entries framed as single panels where transport allows, instead of stacked and spliced on site.
Specification
How they are built
| Element | Standard | Options |
|---|---|---|
| Studs | 2x4 or 2x6 at 16″ o.c. | 24″ o.c. where the design allows; 2x8 for deep walls |
| Plates | Single bottom, double top | Treated bottom plate at slab contact |
| Wall height | 8′, 9′ and 10′ | Taller as a single panel where transport allows |
| Panel length | To about 24′ | Longer runs split on a stud line, marked to match |
| Openings | Headers, king, jack and cripple studs built in | Rough openings to your window and door schedule |
| Bracing | Per the structural drawings | Let-in, metal strap or structural sheathing |
| Sheathing | Supplied open | OSB or plywood applied and nailed at the plant |
| Marking | Every panel numbered to the placement plan | Bundled in erection sequence |
Anything on this table can change to suit the engineer of record. The sealed drawings for your job govern, not this page.
What we need
To quote a panel package
- Floor plans, dimensioned, with wall types marked
- Elevations and wall sections
- Window and door schedule with rough opening sizes
- Structural notes, and the shear wall schedule if there is one
- Stud size, spacing and wall heights, if they are not on the plans
- Whether you want panels sheathed or open
- Site address, delivery date and what offload equipment you have
On site
What arrives
Panels come banded in erection sequence with a numbered placement plan, so your crew sets them in order rather than sorting a stack in the mud.
Bring a machine. A sheathed 24-foot bearing wall is heavy, and the fastest way to lose the time panelizing saved you is to stand a crew around a truck with no way to lift what is on it.
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