STEEL – ITS SUSTAINABILITY

 STEEL – ITS SUSTAINABILITY

Steel being the most used in the recent times in the construction industry  has many well known factors to be rightfully called a SUSTAINABLE MATERIAL.

The major factors contributing to its sustainability are

·        Can be recycled to a greater extent

·        Energy efficient to its maximum

·        Long life span to be noted

·        Generates by-products that are reusable.

·        Totally environment friendly owing to the reduced CO2 emissions and diminished dust dispersions in a larger quantity

·        A lightweight material

·        On site construction friendly

·        Easy maintenance

·        Extremely durable

·        Short period of time needed for construction and installation

The use of steel has eventually reduced the greenhouse gas and the overall emissions at a range of 36%. The water recycling rate of the steel production has also been increased to 95%.

Structural steel has been considered the green construction material and  is most of the time related to environmental concerns due to the above mentioned factors as well as many other contributions of steel.

In order to meet the criteria of sustainable design, Steel has been vastly used in the structural framing systems.

It is said that 98% of all structural steel is recycled back into new steel products with no real loss of its physical properties.

As a matter of fact, steel is not only recycled but multi cycled in many ways and can also be recycled all over again and again which means that there’s no greater loss of the material.

It’s high tensile strength and durability makes it flexible in nature and it’s able to adapt easily in any form of work.

 

Steel having these many advantages also has few disadvantages such as corrosion, expansion, bulking and high maintenance cost to name a few.

But most of the best of it has already been contributed but a little effort from the human’s side on taking care of it would change a lot of things for a better world.

 

-Aafiyah Muskaan

Word count: 323

Reference: https://www.aisc.org/why-steel/sustainability/#:~:text=Structural%20steel%20is%20the%20premier,of%20any%20other%20construction%20material.&text=At%20the%20end%20of%20a,loss%20of%20its%20physical

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