From production to end-of-life, steel construction products offer builders sustainability advantages over alternative materials like wood. A new document from the Steel Market Development Institute has been developed to examine the...
Article originally posted on Architectural Record on February 18, 2019.
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has announced the release of an update to LEED, the world’s most widely used sustainability rating system. Version 4.1 for...
Steel provides versatility and design freedom for architects and designers, but it also provides contractors and trades with a highly engineered, high-quality and consistent building material to make construction easier and more...
Article originally published on Metal Architecture's website on November 28, 2018.
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from production of Chinese steel are substantially greater than emissions from production of comparable steel in North...
Article originally posted on Blue and Green Tomorrow on June 12, 2018.
As the demand for green buildings rises, businesses are looking for the best materials to use. Surprisingly, steel can be one of the best green building materials...
Lorsque l’entreprise québécoise Les Maisons Alouette a conçu une maison autonome pour l’Initiative de démonstration de maisons durables EQuilibriumMC de la Société canadienne d’hypothèques et de logement (SCHL), elle a choisi...
When Quebec-based Les Maisons Alouette designed a zero-energy home for the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) EQuilibrium Sustainable Housing Demonstration Initiative, it chose a combination of solar power, passive solar...
Steel-intensive resilient buildings can play a major role in ensuring communities are prepared, and resilience is increasingly being considered as an important design requirement by owners and builders. Resilient building design goes...
A key factor in steel’s sustainability is its ability to be recycled again and again without losing quality. All North American steel products contain a significant amount of recycled content, including some products consisting of more...
For decades, most discussions about steel’s role in sustainable construction focused on its recycled content and end-of-life recyclability. But as the “green building” movement matured and the science behind sustainability became...
