Structural steel's low cost, strength, durability, design flexibility, adaptability and recyclability make it the material of choice for a growing number of construction-related businesses.

• Cost efficient and quick to build
  With accurately-made steel frame components, construction is quick and doesn’t require highly skilled labour.
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• Environmentally friendly
  Steel delivers a number of unique environmental benefits such as product longevity, recyclability, easy transportation and less raw material wastage.
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• Durable and safe
  Steel won’t ignite or burn and termites can’t eat it. Steel doesn’t have to be treated with pesticides, preservatives or glues. Also, floors and walls are not susceptible to moisture build-up.
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• Design flexibility
  Steel offers architectural and design flexibility due to its inherent strength, which allows it to span greater distances than wood.
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• Steel possesses the highest strength-to-weight ratio of any building material being used today.
• Light gauge steel frames are very strong and lightweight, so housing frames require less material (compared to timber).
• A steel-framed house can be completed in about two-thirds to one-half the time of a conventional brick and mortar home.
• Light gauge steel frame components are easy to transport and work with.
• Because all the intelligence is built into the modelling and fabrication phase of the steel frame manufacturing process, unskilled labour can do the assembly.
• With steel frame building methods, it’s easier to budget accurately and there is less material wastage.
• Steel frames stay straight, unlike timber which can move and warp during and after construction.

• Much of the steel used to make light gauge steel framing is recycled.
• When a steel frame building is demolished, the steel can be recycled.
• It takes approximately one-quarter of an acre of mature trees to produce the wood framing for a typical house. The same house can be steel framed from three or four old cars.
• Steel can be recycled indefinitely without losing any of its qualities.
• When steel buildings are no longer required in their current location, they can be dismantled and re-erected elsewhere.

Energy efficiency

• Steel framed buildings can be very energy efficient. The strength of steel requires fewer wall studs, so there are fewer thermal bridges (uninsulated areas) to transmit heat.
• Steel frame buildings do not settle or warp, so they remain more airtight.
• The depth of the steel beams provides a wider space for insulation.
• The design flexibility of steel frame buildings enables architects to focus on energy-efficient housing features.

Manufacturing and construction concerns

• Almost half the world’s steel production now takes place in electric plants that operate exclusively with recycled scrap and generate no CO2 emissions.
• The by-products arising from steel production are all re-used. For example, slag is employed as a high-value mineral material for highway construction, as ballast, and for the manufacture of cement.
• Steel construction entails the assembly of semi-finished products in a factory, limiting the noise and disruption of open-air operations.
• Steel’s light weight allows smaller foundations and less excavation. In some cases, a few piles are sufficient to raise the building completely from the ground.
• Debris from a typical wood framed home account for 1.4 m3 of landfill waste, compared to only 0.1m3 from a steel framed house.