Aluminum Framing

MHS Aluminum Framing™ is an equivalent to conventional post & beam home design where the structural lumber is replaced by steel posts and beams.

MHS Aluminum Framing™ Framing System features interlocking bolting system, modular grid-type construction built on 4-foot center. Aluminum column Post & Beam member’s bolt-together, while integrated with in file insulated panels for walls, roofs, and floors.

Pre-engineered MHS Aluminum Framing™ post-and-beam-could be supported with MHS tested shear wall and diaphragms. Almost any architectural design can built with this method of construction and its prefabricated components.

Home built with this method can be single-story, two-story, and even tri-level home with shear walls.Unlike conventional wood stick framed home that requires interior walls to support the roof, MHS Aluminum Framing™ house allows to modular span, more open walls with less material and save a lot of space. The result is modern floor layout and interior design flexibility.
Unlike wood, MHS Aluminum Framing™ won’t shrink, rot, warp, buckle, split, or be attacked by insects. Save a lot of trees in the planet.

MHS home with Greater durability, sustainable design, and higher energy efficiency with greater quality.

The MHS Aluminum Post and Beam Framing can be remaining exposed to the interior and exterior of the building or cover with any of enclosure building systems.
MHS Aluminum Framing™ structures exhibit a strength and aesthetic quality not found in the other conventionally framed houses. MHS Aluminum Framing™ are extruded by ASTM standards, pre-cut, and fabricated at the factory, then structural member and accessories sent to the construction site base on project shop drawings where they can be quickly assembled by a contractor’s crew, without using a heavy equipment.

A True Green architecture

The Modular Housing System (MHS) was developed by Tim Siahatgar, founder and CEO of Unique Structural Systems.
This system is composed of MHS aluminum structural members connected by a patented, quick connect bolt and clamp technology. Typically it is designed to be used with SIPs or other panels which fit within the unique channel configurations of the framing members.

Siahatgar notes that the growth of aluminum industry, advanced extrusion machinery, the characteristic and properties of aluminum as a material have led to evolutionary and innovative changes in building techniques, architectural and engineering projects.
MHS works to foster effective collaboration between all the members of the MHS design and construction teams with the goal of using this technology in a cost-effective way to meet each client’s particular needs. The MHS aluminum-based system works ideally with standard SIPs or with metal-skinned and hardwood SIPs as alternatives which require further finishing for wall covering and siding. While the twin grooves in the extruded aluminum framing members were designed to be fitted with almost any kind of panel, the strength of the SIP is preferred. Thus, walls can be assembled using a weather-resistant panel on the exterior surface side of the framing component, such as sheet metal, foamed aluminum panel or even ferro-cement panel. On the interior side the groove can be fitted with a hardwood dovetail board, cork, cloth-covered panel or simple drywall. Due to the fact that panels are set within the flanges of the channels at all four sides, issues or problems with panel connections are eliminated.
In designing a modernist, pavilion home one eliminates this issue altogether by relying on window walls for most of the exterior, with light partitions and sliding panel screens inside. The ability of the MHS system to integrate smaller-scale US Systems framing units means there is a ready method of integrating built-in furnishings, an advantage in approaching the next stage of construction.
Due to the unique properties of aluminum (among them its light weight) and the patented bolt-and-clamp connections, the MHS system offers some degree of superiority over stick framing in resisting almost every hazard or disaster scenario. Among its attributes are green, recyclable components, true modular design versatility, high earthquake resistance and open architecture

Perhaps the most innovative feature of the MHS is its reuse and re-relocatability –precisely the feature that stud frame construction is lacking. With MHS one can freely and quickly disassemble, repair or modify, and then reassemble structures without causing any damage to the components and materials using little more than a few hand tools. Combined with the virtues of modular space frame geometry, this affords the system a flexibility, capability and economy impossible with other methods of construction.