Built for Every Project
Every building brings unique structural, enclosure, and architectural requirements. Klover delivers prefabricated bypass framing systems designed around those demands, combining cold-formed steel framing, BIM-driven coordination, off-site manufacturing, and experienced field installation to help projects move faster with greater certainty.
Precision Built. Performance Proven.
Modern building enclosures demand more than traditional field framing. They require early planning, detailed coordination, precise fabrication, and experienced teams that understand how every component comes together from the model to the field.
Klover’s prefabricated bypass framing systems move critical exterior wall construction into a controlled manufacturing environment, improving consistency, reducing field labor, and supporting faster, more predictable installation.
From BIM coordination and prefabrication through logistics and field installation, Klover brings the people, technology, and experience together to deliver bypass framing systems with greater speed, quality, safety, and certainty.
Bypass Framing Systems
Klover Standard Frame Series
The KSF-C Series is Klover’s core prefabricated bypass framing system for non-load-bearing exterior walls. Built with precision cold-formed steel framing, it provides the structural framework for a wide range of exterior wall assemblies while serving as the foundation for Klover’s enhanced panel solutions.
Designed for efficient fabrication, sequencing, and installation, the KSF-C Series helps reduce field labor, improve coordination, and accelerate building enclosure.
BUILT FOR EFFICIENT
INSTALLATION
Prefabricated off-site and delivered ready for installation, the KSF-C Series reduces field framing requirements, improves sequencing, and helps accelerate enclosure schedules.
ENGINEERED
FOR FLEXIBILITY
Designed for non-load-bearing exterior wall applications, the system can accommodate building movement while supporting a wide range of façade materials, enclosure assemblies, and architectural finishes.
PRECISION
PREFABRICATION
Manufactured in Klover’s controlled prefabrication facility, every panel is built for dimensional accuracy, consistent quality, and reliable field performance.
THE FOUNDATION
FOR MORE
The KSF-C Series serves as the base platform for Klover’s Weather Guard, Carrier, and Façade Series wall systems, allowing project teams to add enclosure and performance components based on project requirements.
Klover Weather Guard Series
The KWG-C Series builds upon the KSF-C bypass framing platform by incorporating factory-installed environmental control layers. Exterior sheathing, air and water barriers, rigid insulation, and optional wood blocking can be installed before panels leave our facility, reducing field work and helping projects achieve enclosure faster.
With more of the exterior wall assembly completed off-site, the KWG-C Series improves consistency, reduces weather-related exposure, and provides project teams with greater schedule certainty.
FASTER BUILDING
ENCLOSURE
Factory-installed enclosure components reduce onsite installation requirements, allowing buildings to dry in sooner and helping subsequent construction activities move forward faster.
FACTORY-INSTALLED
PROTECTION
Exterior sheathing, air and water barriers, rigid insulation, and optional wood blocking are installed under controlled conditions to improve consistency and quality.
LESS WEATHER
RISK FACTOR
Completing critical enclosure work before panels arrive onsite reduces exposure to rain, wind, temperature changes, and other field conditions that can affect productivity and schedules.
BUILT FOR
PROJECT CERTAINTY
With fewer field installation steps and greater upfront coordination, the KWG-C Series helps project teams reduce labor, improve predictability, and deliver high-performance exterior wall assemblies with confidence.
FAQS
Frequently Asked Questions About Bypass Framing Wall Systems
1. What is bypass framing?
Bypass framing is a non-load-bearing exterior wall framing method in which cold-formed steel framing passes outside the edge of the building’s primary structural frame rather than being installed between structural floors. The system transfers applicable exterior wall and wind loads back to the primary structure while allowing the building structure to carry its primary floor and roof loads.
2. What are the benefits of prefabricated bypass framing?
Prefabricated bypass framing moves exterior wall construction from the jobsite into a controlled manufacturing environment. This can reduce onsite labor, improve quality and consistency, simplify coordination, reduce jobsite congestion, and accelerate building enclosure and overall construction schedules.
3. What is the difference between bypass framing and balloon framing?
The terms can overlap depending on the application. Bypass framing describes exterior wall framing that passes outside the primary structural frame, while balloon framing generally describes framing that spans vertically across multiple floor levels. A bypass framing system may therefore incorporate multi-story or balloon-framed conditions depending on the project’s structural design.
4. What’s the difference between the KSF-C and KWG-C Series?
The KSF-C Series is Klover’s standard prefabricated bypass framing system and provides the cold-formed steel framework for the exterior wall. The KWG-C Series builds upon that system by incorporating factory-installed enclosure components such as exterior sheathing, air and water barriers, rigid insulation, and optional wood blocking.
5. What types of projects use bypass framing?
Bypass framing can be used across data centers, healthcare facilities, higher education buildings, multifamily developments, pharmaceutical and biotech facilities, commercial buildings, public infrastructure, and other projects requiring efficient non-load-bearing exterior wall systems.
6. Can bypass framing be prefabricated off-site?
Yes. Bypass framing is particularly well suited to prefabrication. Through BIM and VDC coordination, wall panels can be modeled around actual structural conditions, fabricated in a controlled environment, sequenced for delivery, and installed efficiently in the field.
7. Can bypass framing span multiple floors?
Yes. Depending on engineering and project requirements, bypass framing can be designed for single-story or multi-story conditions. Multi-story configurations can create opportunities for larger prefabricated wall assemblies and further reduce the amount of framing performed onsite.
8. How does bypass framing help accelerate construction schedules?
Prefabrication allows wall panels to be manufactured while other construction activities continue onsite. Once the structure is ready, coordinated panels can be delivered in sequence and installed rapidly, helping advance the building enclosure and allowing subsequent trades to begin their work sooner.
9. Can Klover customize bypass framing systems for different building designs?
Yes. Klover works with project teams to coordinate bypass framing systems around each project’s structural, architectural, enclosure, and performance requirements. Systems can be engineered and prefabricated to accommodate different openings, connections, façade materials, building geometries, and enclosure assemblies.
10. Why choose Klover for prefabricated bypass framing?
Klover combines BIM-driven coordination, cold-formed steel expertise, off-site prefabrication, logistics, and experienced field installation into one integrated approach. By bringing more planning and construction into the prefabrication process, Klover helps project teams reduce field labor, accelerate enclosure, improve quality, and build with greater certainty.
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