Identifying the risks in LSF structures (designing, implementation, construction and operation)

Abstract

Light Steel Frame System that is briefly called LSF is a building system which is used for implying of short-rise and mid-rise buildings (up to 5 floors). It’s a desirable building system for civil engineers (in terms of gravity and lateral load) in developed countries. This system gets significant benefits, although in our country it’s not much used due to the reasons such as: opposite with people’s culture, higher price in, lack of specialists, executive problems and etc. it’s been also felt to change the attitude in construction industry because of the economic problems, optimum use of building materials and proper construction techniques. In this article, we try to study LSF structures from the design and implementation stage to the operation one and identify its risks exactly and finally offer a solution for each risk.

Keywords: Lsf structures; risk management; identifying risk; classifying risk.