The cost of a steel house is not really expensive

Steel structure houses have incomparable advantages in terms of construction and comprehensive benefits. Despite the many benefits of steel structure houses, people still stay away from steel structure houses with “high cost and high cost”. In fact, the cost of steel structure houses is almost the same as that of traditional steel mixed structure houses.

The construction of a house is a systematic project that includes a number of components, such as design, manufacture, transportation, installation, maintenance and management, all of which will add to the cost of building a house. Therefore, costs, including hidden costs, should be viewed in a comprehensive manner and should not be focused solely on the use of a few extra kilograms of steel.

For a high-rise building project, the proportion of structural costs accounted for less than 30% of the project cost. Structural cost is divided into the cost of the superstructure and the cost of the foundation, the steel structure of the total investment in the project accounts for only 10%. In addition, the construction period of steel structure houses is shorter, and the transportation cost of relatively small steel structure parts is also much lower. Overall, the cost of steel structure house is about the same as the cost of traditional steel mixed structure house.

Some experts say that the civil construction cost of steel structure houses is 10-20% higher than that of reinforced concrete houses, but steel structure houses can save 30% of the funds in the foundation cost, in addition, the short construction period of steel structure houses can save a lot of expenses. Considering the above factors, the cost of steel structure houses can be roughly equal to that of reinforced concrete houses, especially with the increase of the number of floors, steel structure houses have more cost advantages. With the increase of steel production, price reduction, the cost of steel structure houses will also have a substantial reduction.

Although China’s steel structure houses have been developed, compared with the countries with more mature steel structure technology, there are still some gaps. There are still many problems to be solved for the rapid development of steel structure houses in China. But with the development of the economy and the continuous improvement of the construction level, steel structure houses have been widely used in public buildings, rural self-built houses, shantytown renovation, tourism, pension real estate and other projects, the development prospect is broad.