Design Assist
Collaborate with an architect-led team early to refine multifamily building layouts, framing strategies, engineering feasibility, and prefabrication opportunities before documents are finalized.
Frame X Systems helps multifamily developers, architects, and contractors move from early planning to installation-ready cold-formed steel framing with greater confidence. Our architect-led team coordinates design, engineering, BIM, manufacturing, and sequenced delivery to reduce field conflicts, labor demands, and costly change orders. Build with precise components, clearer documentation, and a framing strategy designed to keep your project advancing.

Coordinated cold-formed steel services that support multifamily projects from feasibility review through installation-ready delivery.
Collaborate with an architect-led team early to refine multifamily building layouts, framing strategies, engineering feasibility, and prefabrication opportunities before documents are finalized.
Identify design conflicts, improve framing efficiency, and resolve coordination issues before construction, helping reduce change orders, field adjustments, and schedule-disrupting RFIs.
Coordinate cold-formed steel framing in a 3D BIM model alongside architectural, structural, and MEP systems to uncover clashes and improve installation accuracy.
Receive code-compliant cold-formed steel framing design, structural documentation, shop drawings, and engineered solutions for load-bearing walls, floors, and roof systems.
Factory-built cold-formed steel wall panels, trusses, and components are manufactured from coordinated models for exact fit, reduced waste, and less on-site labor.
Installation-ready framing components arrive in a planned sequence, helping crews limit site congestion, reduce handling, and maintain momentum during multifamily construction.
Frame X Systems brings multifamily teams a coordinated path from plans to installation-ready cold-formed steel framing. Instead of treating framing as a material purchase, we align design assist, engineering, BIM coordination, precision manufacturing, and delivery around your project’s requirements. That early collaboration helps reduce RFIs, limit field modifications, control material waste, and support more predictable schedules across apartment, mixed-use, and other multifamily developments nationwide.

See how coordinated framing helps project teams build with fewer field surprises.
A collaborative framing partner built to solve issues before they reach the field.
An architect-led approach resolves multifamily constructability concerns while design decisions are still practical to change.
BIM coordination helps nationwide project teams identify clashes early and reduce avoidable field RFIs.
Design, engineering, manufacturing, and sequenced shipping work together through one accountable framing partner.
Over 28 years of construction experience informs efficient, installation-ready solutions for complex multifamily scopes.
Architect-driven expertise for better coordinated multifamily framing.

Principal Owner / Architect
Stephen Baker is the Principal Owner and Architect of Frame X Systems, bringing over 28 years of construction and architectural experience to the company he founded. As principal of both Frame X Systems and Baker Architects / Baker Studios, Stephen pioneered the architect-led approach to cold-formed steel framing, built on the belief that constructability challenges should be resolved before construction begins rather than during it. He leads the company's design philosophy, integrating BIM coordination and precision manufacturing to deliver installation-ready framing systems nationwide. Stephen is also a prolific educator, producing video content on construction cost savings, insulation techniques, risk management, and framing package specifications for architects, contractors, and developers. His vision continues to drive FrameX's mission of faster, cleaner, and more efficient construction outcomes for clients across the country.
Frame X Systems supports multifamily projects with architect-led design assist, constructability review, cold-formed steel framing engineering, BIM coordination, precision manufacturing, budget pricing, and sequenced delivery. The result is a coordinated, installation-ready framing package rather than disconnected material and design services. Scope is tailored to the submitted plans, building requirements, and construction schedule.
Speak with our team about plans, coordination, and framing requirements.
Coordinated framing support and installation-ready delivery for multifamily teams across the United States.
Nationwide
Delivery Reach
3+ Areas
Key Markets
Plan-Based
Project Support
Share your plans to discuss framing support and delivery.
Design expertise guiding framing decisions
Models included with every project
Domestic precision-manufactured framing components
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