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    Structural steel has several advantages for construction projects including faster construction speeds, lower costs, greater design flexibility, and sustainability. Steel construction allows for tight tolerances, off-site fabrication, and use of building information modeling software to speed up the design and erection process. It also tends to have lower project costs than competing materials like concrete. Steel is fully recyclable, uses recycled content in its production, and steel buildings can be adaptively reused or modified over time. However, steel does require maintenance like painting to prevent corrosion and fireproofing to maintain strength at high temperatures. It is also susceptible to buckling if used in compression and has higher initial costs in some areas where steel supply is limited.

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    Structural steel has several advantages for construction projects including faster construction speeds, lower costs, greater design flexibility, and sustainability. Steel construction allows for tight tolerances, off-site fabrication, and use of building information modeling software to speed up the design and erection process. It also tends to have lower project costs than competing materials like concrete. Steel is fully recyclable, uses recycled content in its production, and steel buildings can be adaptively reused or modified over time. However, steel does require maintenance like painting to prevent corrosion and fireproofing to maintain strength at high temperatures. It is also susceptible to buckling if used in compression and has higher initial costs in some areas where steel supply is limited.

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    Structural steel has several advantages for construction projects including faster construction speeds, lower costs, greater design flexibility, and sustainability. Steel construction allows for tight tolerances, off-site fabrication, and use of building information modeling software to speed up the design and erection process. It also tends to have lower project costs than competing materials like concrete. Steel is fully recyclable, uses recycled content in its production, and steel buildings can be adaptively reused or modified over time. However, steel does require maintenance like painting to prevent corrosion and fireproofing to maintain strength at high temperatures. It is also susceptible to buckling if used in compression and has higher initial costs in some areas where steel supply is limited.

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    Structural steel has several advantages for construction projects including faster construction speeds, lower costs, greater design flexibility, and sustainability. Steel construction allows for tight tolerances, off-site fabrication, and use of building information modeling software to speed up the design and erection process. It also tends to have lower project costs than competing materials like concrete. Steel is fully recyclable, uses recycled content in its production, and steel buildings can be adaptively reused or modified over time. However, steel does require maintenance like painting to prevent corrosion and fireproofing to maintain strength at high temperatures. It is also susceptible to buckling if used in compression and has higher initial costs in some areas where steel supply is limited.

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    ADVANTAGES OF STEEL

    Speed of Construction
    Structural steel enhances construction productivity because of its shop fabrication while
    maintaining tight construction tolerances. Field placed material will always lag behind...
    3-D interoperability and Building Information Modeling allows the close cooperation
    between designers and steel specialty contractors in the design, fabrication and
    erection of building structures. This technology allows designs to save both time and
    dollars in the construction process.
    Rapid erection in all seasons with close tolerances being maintained for integration with
    other building systems and minimal construction site waste is achievable only with
    structural steel.
    Lower Project Costs
    Today, when competing framing systems are evaluated for projects using comparable,
    current cost data, structural steel remains the cost leader for the majority of construction
    projects. Comparative studies indicate that a structural steel framing system including
    decking and fire protection will typically cost 5% to 7% less than a concrete framing
    system on a national basis.
    Aesthetic Appeal
    Architects praise the natural beauty of steel and are excited about exposing it in the
    design of their structures to emphasize grace, slenderness, strength and transparency
    of frame.
    Structural steel allows the project architect a greater degree of expression and creativity
    in their design than any other construction material.
    Structural steel sections can be bent and rolled to create non-linear members to further
    enhance the aesthetic appeal of the structure.

    High Strength
    All other materials talk about high strength, but their strength is still less than that of
    structural steel even when enhanced by steel reinforcing. In fact, the increase in the
    standard strength of steel used in buildings today compared to 10 years ago is greater
    than the total strength of competing high strength materials. Structural steel is typically
    50 ksi material indicating that the steel has a yield stress of 50,000 pounds per square
    inch in both compression and tension.
    Sustainable
    Sustainability is structural steels middle name. Structural steel is the most recycled
    material on our planet todays structural steel is made of 88% recycled product, is fully
    recyclable in the future and can be reused without further processing.
    The recycling rate of structural steel and automobiles at the end of their life is greater
    than 100%. Rather than utilizing land for quarrying operations to provide aggregates or
    as landfills for construction material waste, structural steel is emptying salvage yards
    allowing that land to be used for other purposes.
    Today demolitions are often paying for the opportunity to demolish and scrap a
    structural steel framed building because of the value of the structural steel. By contrast
    buildings using other materials cost between $3 and $10 per square foot to demolish,
    scrap and landfill.
    Innovative
    New systems such as Girder-Slab, Conxtech and Side-Plate have recently entered the
    market in response to designer demands for new approaches to projects. They join
    ongoing innovations addressing issues such as long-span deck systems, fire protection,
    connection optimization, coating systems and progressive collapse!

    The structural steel industry continues to pioneer new innovations for both the material
    and the use of structural steel.
    The structural steel industry pioneered the movement toward open standards and
    interoperable software that has most recently resulted in the growth in popularity of
    Building Information Modeling. In 1990s the industry adopted CIS/2 as a standard data
    protocol for the exchange of information between structural design, detailing and
    manufacturing/fabrication programs. The result was that software programs from
    different vendors were suddenly able to exchange model based information beyond
    simple geometry. Projects taking advantage of this vertical integration within the
    structural steel industry were able to demonstrate cost savings of up to 20% on the
    structural package.
    Modifiable
    Structural steel buildings can be modified in the future for new applications, loading
    conditions, vertical expansions and changes in owner desires in ways that other framing
    systems can never accomplish.
    Existing steel columns and beams can be strengthened through the attachment of steel
    plate to the flanges or web of sections allowing for greater loads. New stairways can be
    added to existing steel framed buildings by removing a portion of the floor decking,
    bracing a single bay and adding the desired stair structure. These types of changes can
    be accomplished with little disruption while the building is still occupied.
    It is not unusual for a structural steel building to have additional floors added even years
    after the building was originally completed.
    Efficient
    Structural steel buildings optimize building space efficiency through the use of slender
    columns maximizing useable floor space, longer spans for open, column-free spaces
    and the integration of HVAC systems into structural spaces allowing reduction of floorto-floor heights.

    The typical steel column occupies 75% less floor space than an equivalent concrete
    column. At the same time structural steel allows longer spans that eliminate
    intermediate columns creating open floor areas ideal for todays office layouts.
    Parking structures benefit from smaller structural steel columns and longer spans as
    well.
    Reliable and Predictable
    Structural steel is manufactured and fabricated under controlled conditions using
    modern quality assurance processes. The final strength of the material is verified at the
    point of production, not after the material is already placed in the frame of the building.
    Structural steel is shop fabricated to close tolerances impossible for site cast materials.

    DISADVANTAGES OF STEEL
    High maintenance cost and more corrosion
    Most steels must be painted at regular intervals because if they are freely exposed to air
    they get corrode. This requires extra cost and special care. If we use weathering steel
    then this will eliminate this cost. If steel structures are not properly maintained then they
    can loose 1 to 1.5 mm of their thickness each year. As a result the structure will loose its
    weight up to 35% during its specified life span and can fail under external loads.
    Fireproofing costs
    Although steel members are incombustible in nature, their strength is tremendously
    reduced at temperatures prevailing in fires. At about 400 degree Celsius, creep
    becomes much more pronounced. Creep is defined as the plastic deformation under a
    constant load for a long period of time. This produces large deflections in steel
    structures. Stresses will produce in main member forcing other members to higher
    stresses or even to collapse. Steel is an excellent conductor of heat. It may transfer
    heat from a burning compartment of a building to start fire in other parts of the building.
    Extra cost is required for properly fire proof of the building.
    Susceptibility to buckling
    Steel sections usually consist of a combination of thin plates. The steel members
    dimensions are also smaller than reinforced concrete members. If these slender
    member are subjected to compression, there are greater chances of buckling.
    Steel when used for columns is not very economical because considerable material has
    to be used to stiffen the columns against buckling.
    Higher initial cost / Less availability
    In few countries, like Pakistan, steel is not available in abundance and its initial cost is
    very high as compared with the other structural materials. That is the reason why steel
    structures are not very common in these countries.

    Aesthetics
    For certain types of buildings, the steel structures are architecturally preferred.
    However, for majority of residential buildings and office buildings, steel structures are
    considered to have poor aesthetic appearance. At these places, they required false
    ceiling and cladding to improve their appearance. A good amount is required for such
    structures to improve their appearance.

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