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Building Green with an Armstrong Steel Building
Steel buildings are leading the way in the green building revolution, meeting green building design goals with innovative building design, engineering, and use of materials. Building green is seen as the sounder environmental approach to minimizing the carbon footprint of any building project to our planet.
Pre-engineered steel buildings are durable, cost effective, energy efficient, and green! Architects, builders, and developers that are planning new construction projects are seeing and thinking “green”. Steel building manufacturers and suppliers such as Armstrong Steel have been at the lead of this new movement.
Metal building construction is considered green for several reasons.
The Green Building Resource Guide defines green building materials and products as having at least one of the following characteristics: nontoxic; recycled content; resource efficient; long life cycle; or, environmentally conscious.
Armstrong Steel Buildings that are fully insulated in the roof and walls are some of the most energy efficient structures standing today.The energy efficiencies of steel construction can save resources, both power and money. Steel is more thermally conductive than wood.
Another reason is the conservation of the materials used and the resources involved. Steel is more often recycled than any other material on this planet and the structural integrity of the steel is not lost during this remanufacturing process. Steel utilized in construction has about a 70% recycled content. Pre-engineered steel construction processes result in very minimal waste.
By design, Armstrong Steel strives to minimize waste and reduce raw material use throughout the design and building process. Steel buildings have a long life cycle and the durability is second to none. Cold-formed steel used in pre-engineered steel buildings has been proven to have over a two hundred year life span and steel will not warp, crack, split, rot and is highly resistant to fire and insect infestation. In today’s environmentally conscious world, when you build an Armstrong steel building, you can rest assured that you are taking a step towards reducing your carbon footprint.
