Steel is strong and durable

• Over 50% of the steels made today didn’t exist 10 years ago. Improvements in galvanizing and coating steel have resulted in stronger, thinner, easier to shape and corrosion-resistant products. These changes have encouraged home owners to frame in steel for longer lasting dwellings.
• The longest steel bridge in the world, the Akashi-Kaikyo bridge in Japan, is almost 4000 meters long? The bridge uses 193,000 tons of steel in the towers, cables and trusses.

   Steel is affordable

• Steel’s desirable properties, and its relatively low cost, make it the main structural metal in engineering and building projects, accounting for about 90% of all metal used each year.
• You can actually save a lot more than you expect with steel building construction as compared to building construction of any other material.

• Americans throw away enough iron and steel to continuously supply the nation’s automakers.
• 64% of all steel products are recycled – that’s more than glass, paper, plastic and aluminum, combined. Almost 70 million tons of steel were recycled in the U.S. alone in 2003.
• Steel recycling saves the energy equivalent of electrical power for about one-fifth of US households (or about 18 million homes) for one year.
• 6All steel framing contains a minimum of 25% recycled steel.

• Steel is 100% recyclable, offering an environmentally sound framing alternative now and for the future.
• Debris from a typical wood-framed house takes up to 50 cubic feet of landfill waste. A steel-framed house accounts for a little more than one cubic foot of landfill waste.
• Nationwide, 10% of all multifamily residential structures built use steel studs for framing interior walls. The state of Hawaii now builds over 70 percent of new houses in steel.
• Steel from six recycled cars can frame a typical 2000-square-foot home that would otherwise require the wood from 40 to 50 trees (almost an acre’s worth).