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Environmentally Friendly
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Develop a profitable, environmentally friendly business niche and participate in the sustainability trend by using steel.
- Steel possesses the highest strength-to-weight ratio of any building material (including timber and block) meaning less wastage placed into landfills.
- Much of the steel used to make light steel framing is recycled.
- When a steel frame building is demolished, the steel can be recycled.
- It takes approximately a quarter 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 with no negative effect on the building.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- Debris from a typical wood framed home accounts for 1.4 m3 of landfill waste, compared to only 0.1m3 from a steel framed house.
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