On Mon, 04 Apr 2005 00:57:07 GMT, someone wrote:

..... having
no load bearing walls just having steel or concrete beams, columns.

For a residence, is that really the advantage that you think it is?
Most residences, the people that live in them want them divided into
rooms. (If you live alone which I expect you do, this may not have
occurred to you.)

Since they are going to have dividing walls anyway, it is killing to
birds with one stone to make some of them structural! In a
residence, it is usually not worth the extra cost to eliminate all
interior bearing walls, just for the speculation that there is a
chance one of them might "have to" be moved later.


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