Key Reasons to Choose a Steel Structure for Your Construction ...

A Steel Structure Offers Resilience, Structural Integrity

Initiating a building project requires major decisions, including the choice of material for the structure. A steel structure offers a variety of important benefits that include resilience, wind and earthquake resistance and structural integrity. The choice of a steel structure is always economical, so take a look at the other reasons to use steel:

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Resilience: Your steel structure will not crack, split, rot or warp and it will perform consistently over time. It does not expand or contract, and it retains its structural integrity.

Steel is also a good choice for blast-resistant applications, widely used in buildings that require special security or physical protection. A building using a steel frame is also resistant to progressive collapse.

Wind and Earthquake Resistance: Steel structures provide increased strength and ductility when compared with other building materials, offering resistance to natural disasters like hurricanes and earthquakes. Steel structures also feature a consistent load path when designed correctly, and every steel product produced must meet standard quality requirements.

Structural Integrity: A steel structure has the ability to withstand both manmade and natural challenges without disruption to its functions or its occupants. Steel is also durable, noncombustible and strong. Its homogeneous properties make it consistent and predictable for confidence in design.

Steel’s ductility makes it possible for the redistribution of forces when accommodating displacements caused by natural disasters or a manmade event. Steel adds structural integrity and strength when used in combination with other building materials, such as being used in concrete construction or as a connection point in a wood frame.

Steel also has standard connections, creating reliable fastening options such as welding, screws and bolts. In the event of an unanticipated tension force, steel provides additional load paths to absorb pressure.

When choosing your steel structure, here are a few items to keep in mind:

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• Be sure that your steel fabricator and erector are certified by the American Institute of Steel Construction, which regulates quality, safety and skills.
• Don’t choose your steel company simply based on cost. Choosing a company that skimps on quality or rushes the job will cost you more in the long run.
• Look for a company that does both fabrication and erection in-house in order to streamline and prevent errors.

Safety 

With up to 70% labour reduction possible using a steel solution compared to alternatives, fewer people equals a safer construction site. Prefabrication and dedicated lifting points on assemblies make for defined well-controlled erection processes. Steel decking and integrated edge protection facilitate safer working platforms. 

Value for money 

Faster construction means earlier handover and tenancy. Smaller member sizing (in particular, columns) equals greater net lettable space. Longer spans equates to more flexible internal spaces. 

Robustness and ductility 

Steel is an inherently ductile material, responding to overload in a controlled fashion with managed load retention. The size and shape of steel members can be configured to provide a level of structural robustness not easily achievable with other more brittle construction materials. 

Prefabrication 

Prefabrication of structural steelwork is the ‘business as usual’ case. Prefabrication brings fabrication shop control over quality and the dimensional accuracy of computer numerical control (CNC) machinery. Precise control over quantities reduces waste and workflows incorporating seamless integration back to the 3D design models ensure errors are minimised and architectural intent preserved.

Reduced weight 

A steel structure is intrinsically lighter than an equivalent concrete structure due to the higher strength and stiffness of steel. With lightness comes reduced load on foundations, hence smaller foundations and an ability to perform better for some ground conditions. Weight reduction enables retrofitting onto existing structures for extension or refurbishment. Adding extra floors to existing structures is a common example.

Configuration adaptability 

Given steel is assembled on site, typically with bolted connections, it's easy to reconfigure steel elements to suit adaption of the building or structure to different purposes. The clear lines of load transfer allow strengthening and retrofitting with straightforward on-site welding. Reduced weight allows for additional floors or extensions on existing buildings. Large spans facilitate future repurposing of internal spaces with no or minimal structural modification. 

Sustainability

Steel framing can easily and economically deliver Green Star (or IS) points by utilising:

• steel fabrication via members of the ASI Environmental Sustainability Charter (ESC)
• the use of higher strength steel
• steels that have an Environmental Product Declaration (EPD)

All of the benefits offered by a steel solution are contained in the Environmental sustainability section.  

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