Why Use Steel ???

Why Steel?

Steel has many advantages and disadvantages when choosing it as a construction element over other elements such as timber. When it comes to the construction on a factory, using it in a portal frame. These advantages can include:

• The accuracy of the engineered computations in calculation sizes and lengths.
• Its recycabiltiy and life-cycle costs as most buildings are also designed for demolition.
• Unlike timber that can be whether delayed steel can be worked on under roofing.
• Steel does not creep as much as timber which can become a problem in the long run for timber construction.
• All connection of steel members can be calculated by engineers.
• It has much greater spanning capability then other elements as far as span/section depth.
• It has much better quality control where it can be produced off-site and constructed on-site.

Even though steel has many advantages over other building materials when it comes to construction of a factory. There are still disadvantages that would make people selected different materials. These can include:

· Sometimes there is limited availability of certain sections.

· With steel there are many treatments and protection that is needed if the construction is going to last such as; anti-corrosion treatment and fire protection.

· If there was a fire heavy timber section perform better then steel as it can fail under the heat.

· There is a greater level of skill required then just carpenters if timber was being used.

· Higher degree of accuracy required because errors and changers are harder to correct.

Even though steel is more recyclable there are much greater environmental damages.

Refernces:
www.steel.org.au
www.bluescopesteel.com.au
www.smogonsteel.com.au