ADVANTAGES OF STEEL
The list below describes the advantages of using steel
in your next structure.
- Strength: Steel offers the highest strength-to-weight
ratio of any framing material.
- Safety: The strength of steel offers
greater protection to you and your family during hurricanes, tornadoes,
earthquakes, and thunderstorms.
- Energy Efficient: The fact that
steel is dimensionally stable eliminates the settling associated with
other framing products. This reduces air infiltration and lowers utility
bills.
- Environmental: Steel is 100% recyclable,
making steel the material of choice for the next generation.
- Quality: Steel will not warp, crack,
twist, bow, rot, shrink, or swell which leads to a more quality home
for years to come.
- Non-combustible: Steel will not
burn, eliminating the third leading type of house fires, those which
are started in the framing of the home. Also steel will not contribute
to a fire allowing considerably more time to escape a fire.
- Flexible: Steel can be designed
for longer spans which create more open floor plans and fewer load
bearing walls.
- Termite Proof: Steel is impervious
to termites and other wood boring insects, thus eliminating the structural
damage that can be caused by these insects.
- Mold: Steel Framing is inorganic
and therefore does not support the growth of mold.
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