Yes, really. Building commercial buildings or the interior of concrete multifamily towers with galvanized steel has been around for a long time, but it has never been perfected for the single family home – Until now.

BONE Structures

The difference now is that a Canadian company has patented and perfected over the last nine years a simple concept of custom engineered homes using light gauge steel which allow for design flexibility with 25 foot open spans and lot of big window space on the exterior walls. The shell of the building goes up in less than a week, connecting with high precision and no cutting, welding or waste. (unlike a wood house that generates 2 bins of wood waste through construction).

Wood-less Custom Builds that are Quiet

A combination of rigid insulation and spray foam insulation create an airtight exterior with R26 walls that are thermally broken (no direct connection of steel from exterior to interior) making for a quieter and warmer home in the winter, or cooler home in the summer.

Popular in Quebec, designs and engineering are now underway for the first BONE Structure steel homes in the Vancouver region. For our rain forest climate, building with galvanized steel has advantages like no rot, no carpenter ants, and flexibility of design for amazing contemporary or modern west Coast designs. See more wood-less design builds here.