Manufactured Framing Components Enable Design Flexibility, Optimize Project Schedules, and More
Building Smarter: Prefabricated Framing Components and 3D Design Drive Home Construction Efficiency
Nov. 5, 2025
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In an industry as slow to adopt new technologies as the home building industry, prefabricated framing components are quickly gaining wide acceptance. And for good reason: They improve accuracy, quality, and overall home construction efficiency.
MiTek leaders Joseph Murphy and Stephen Keller explain in this Ask the Expert how open web floor systems and other engineered building systems have revolutionized the design and construction processes for home builders, bringing benefits across designers, engineers, framers, and trades in the builder's ecosystem. Readers will learn:
Prefabricated framing components make building to design more accurate and consistent, as well as help to speed production.
Open web floor truss systems fast-track MEP integration, reduce clashes, and improve jobsite efficiency.
3D design in construction allows engineers and architects to visualize performance criteria, test design variations, and identify conflicts before reaching the jobsite.
Factory-built systems put the work in controlled environments instead of hard-to-manage job sites, which delivers improved quality control and reduced waste.
