Showing entries for category: “sustainability”

Passive House Net Zero Energy Ready Case Study

One of the biggest challenges the world faces today is how to address and minimize climate change resulting from carbon and greenhouse gas emissions. Buildings constructed using conventional methods have and continue to consume…
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Steel Sustainability in the Construction Market

As an advanced engineered material, steel is the material of choice by engineers and architects because of its strong performance characteristics, durability, reliability, versatility in design and consistency as a product.Life cycle…
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Sustainability in Steelmaking

Steel is the EnviroMetalTM. Producing a ton of steel today in North America requires less than half the energy that was needed to produce a ton of steel 40 years ago, resulting in a 50 percent reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.…
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Free E-book Discusses Recyclability of Steel

In the latest edition of a series of free, downloadable e-books, an article from the pages of The Construction Specifier explains the variety of ways steel and galvanized steel can be reused and recycled without increasing construction…
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