Lightweight steel framed housing began to develop in the United States during the 1970's in response to a similar range of issues as those currently effecting South Africa - productivity, quality control and availability of skilled trade labour. The concept is soundly based on an established system of building utilising studwork frames for the load-bearing elements of the structure, which has been in use since before the end of the Second World War. Lightweight framing techniques have since evolved to be by far the dominant means of construction for domestic housing in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and elsewhere, delivering tens of millions of completed quality homes.
Over the past ten years the processor power behind Impacts' advanced CAD (Computer Aided Design) and CAM (Computer Aided Manufacturing) systems has progressed to the stage where we can now offer the Client complete design flexibility, to enable the efficient manufacture of individual structural frames in a controlled factory environment, regardless of your unique design and architectural preferences.