Space-Savvy Structures

The second problem was that the structural columns had to fit within the 6 inch steel stud exterior walls.  A normal steel column would be an “I” shape piece 10 to 12 inches wide, so that was not an option.

Since we had less than 6 inches of exterior stud depth our solution was to use a larger number of 4 and 5 inch square steel tube columns.  This meant over 204 column locations around the exterior walls, in addition to “X” bracing any section of the exterior wall that did not have window openings.