Building Faster Starts
with Smarter Framing.
Klover combines prefabrication and bypass framing to create high-performance exterior wall systems built for speed, quality, and certainty. By designing, coordinating, and fabricating cold-formed steel wall panels in our controlled shop environment, we move critical work off-site while helping projects reduce field labor, improve quality, accelerate enclosure, and create a more predictable construction process.
Our Approach to Prefabricated Bypass Framing
Our approach brings prefabrication and bypass framing together as one coordinated system. Through BIM and VDC coordination, cold-formed steel expertise, engineering, fabrication, logistics, and field installation, Klover transforms exterior wall framing into prefabricated assemblies designed to improve constructability, accelerate schedules, and reduce uncertainty in the field.
Prefabricated
Off-Site
Cold-formed steel bypass wall panels are assembled in our controlled prefabrication environment using coordinated models and repeatable processes. Moving work off-site helps improve consistency and quality while reducing weather exposure, material handling, and jobsite congestion.
Faster Building
Enclosure
Prefabricated bypass framing allows completed exterior wall panels to arrive ready for installation. This can accelerate enclosure, reduce sequential field activities, and help subsequent trades get to work sooner.
Less Labor.
More Certainty.
Prefabrication shifts significant framing work from the field into our controlled facility. This reduces onsite labor requirements while creating a safer, more organized, and more predictable construction process.
BIM-Driven
Coordination
Every prefabricated bypass framing system begins with detailed BIM and VDC coordination. Our team coordinates structural interfaces, openings, connections, panel dimensions, fabrication, logistics, and installation before production begins.
From the Model to the Field
Bypass framing is an essential part of Klover’s prefabrication capabilities. We bring design coordination, cold-formed steel framing, engineering, manufacturing, logistics, and field installation into one integrated process. The result is a coordinated prefabricated exterior wall system designed to reduce field work, improve quality, accelerate enclosure, and deliver greater schedule certainty from the shop to the jobsite.
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.