Bethlehem Steel Corp.’s Sparrows Point plant stands to benefit from a new joint venture with a Florida building-materials company to expand the use of steel in homes and commercial buildings ...

Hot-dip galvanized substrate is produced on continuous zinc coating lines from either cold-rolled (thickness range 0.27 mm to < 2.0 mm) or hot-rolled (thickness 2.01 mm to 3.0 mm) steel substrate ...

Light steel framing uses thin sheets of steel, often called light gauge steel. This approach creates a structure that’s both ...

But the sheer size of the largest of the trusses — two stories tall and made of more than 180 tons of steel — made it impossible to move to the site economically.

Need to store a tractor, four-wheel or other outdoor country gear? Perhaps your boat, RV or snowmobiles needs an off-season home? How about a spacious workshop? Something generically called fabric ...

Steel Insight Article 3 analysed two typical commercial buildings to provide cost and programme guidance when considering the options available during the design and selection of a structural frame.

Steel trusses are constructed similarily to wooden trusses in that they have a top chord, bottom chord which are connected by a web. The thickness and height, of the truss is governed, by the ...

As early as 1889 the pioneering Jenny had decided that the frame should be clearly expressed. In his Second Leiter Building, Chicago (now Sears Roebuck) of 1889-90, the elevations read clearly as a ...