Platform Framing is also known as which framing style?

• A. Eastern Framing
• B. Northern Framing
• C. Western Framing
• D. Southern Framing

Answer: (C)

Platform framing is the modern method where each story is built on a completed floor platform, with walls erected story by story on that platform. This approach makes construction simpler and safer, since workers aren’t lifting long studs through multiple levels and it’s easier to insulate and run services between floors. It became the standard practice in the western United States, leading to the name Western framing. Ballon framing, the older method, uses long continuous studs from the foundation up through several stories and is more associated with earlier Eastern practice. So platform framing is known as Western framing.