How is pole house construction different from conventional housing construction methods?
Pole house construction uses a totally integrated engineering style not normally found in conventional house building. In a pole house, the skeletal structure carries the entire loading of the suspended floors and roof. The skeletal structure is engineered to be independent of wall placement, allowing all of the interior and exterior walls of the pole house to be completely non-load bearing. How is a pole house different from the pier and piling buildings she sees at the seashore? A pier and piling building is usually nothing more than a pole platform base on which a conventional building is placed. The pier and piling poles do not penetrate above floor level. In our pole houses, large diameter wood poles are bolted atop reinforced concrete footings and rise vertically through the entire structure to carry the suspended floor girder beams, floor joists, and the tension ring beam and roofing rafters. The entire engineered skeletal structure becomes an incredibly strong integrated frame.
