What Are the Benefits of Building a Steel & Concrete House?
- Concrete and metal homes are energy efficent and aesthetically pleasing.laying bricks for a new home image by Paul Hill from Fotolia.com
Building a steel and concrete home has a variety of positives. The home is aesthetically pleasing with a clean look of concrete block. The home is also stabile with its steel framework and support. Concrete is also a good protective material from high winds and the weather elements while giving houses added insulation. - Concrete serves as the foundation of the home but also as a solid structure and is continuous because wood structures combine insulation, sheet rock and wood studs. The concrete structure is made of concrete and steel reinforcement beams and poles.
- Concrete homes utilize a form that consists of concrete wall systems or panels. These forms provide a high R-value level of insulation by the thickness of the concrete that keeps the heat in and the cold out. (The higher the R-Value, the better the thermal performance of the insulation, according to Energy Star.) Some hollow masonry units allow for insulating materials to be easily placed in a space between walls to add to the insulation.
- Concrete homes protect homeowners from the weather elements. This protection avoids long-term roof and siding repairs often needed for wood and vinyl-sided homes. Concrete walls provide resistance to wind and rain of hurricanes, tornadoes and storms. Concrete homes are also resistant to earthquakes. Concrete homeowners don' t have to deal with the problems of dry rotting and termite-infested homes suffered in wood-framed houses.
- Concrete used in concrete homes is usually made of Portland cement, which contains only 10 percent concrete. The remaining materials include recyclable scrap tires, crushed stone and sand.
This mixture of products presents a strong hold while helping the environment.
