Advantages of Steel

• 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, swell or squeak 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.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Value: The price of steel is more stable than wood allowing the use of steel to be cost-effective in the residential construction market.
  
  
• Home Value: Owning a steel home will give you a higher re sell value to your home.
  
  
• Home Insurance: Owning a steel home will reduce the owners insurance cost.
  
  
• Air Quality: Steel frame does not emit volatile organ compounds (VOC’s) into indoor air plus Steel does not sustain mould growth as wood products do, thus promoting better indoor air quality.
  
  
• Easier Remodeling: Steel framing also provides you with a structure that can easily adapt to a family’s changing needs. Additions or renovations are simpler since you can unscrew rather than rip apart walls. Steel framed homes may be finished in stucco, wood, brick, siding or any other material you can name. Plus steel framing allows greater flexibility during design, construction and remodeling including more open spaces and larger rooms.