A little blog where I explore steel building
Often since you need fewer joints and support within steel, you will need less steel to construct in proportion to what you would use with wood. You may be pleasantly surprised to know that steel buildings are environmentally sound. Since steel can weigh as little as half as much as wood needed to build a structure of equal size, it can cost less to transport or ship. The best part may be that steel is completely recyclable. More steel is recycled per year than paper, glass, aluminum and plastic put together, and amounts to approximately sixty million tons per year.