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  • Composite Floor Systems and Stiffened Plate Floor Decks Win Multi-Story Residential Competition
    News - 15 Apr 2004
    A proposal for developing a composite floor system incorporating structural steel and aerated concrete earned a $10,000 prize from the American Institute of Steel Construction, Inc. in a recent...
  • Outside the box thinkers put shipping containers to another use
    News - 12 Apr 2004
    Many North Americans are learning what ocean freight insiders, and port city dwellers have long known; cargo boxes make great low cost buildings. Paul Sawyers, author of "Intermodal Shipping...
  • RS Building Kit System
    News - 29 Mar 2004
    A completely new Building Kit System is now available from Machine Building Systems Ltd. It uses stainless steel tubing, intelligent fasteners and fastening elements for panels of all kinds for...
  • PATH Top 10 Building Technologies for 2004
    News - 7 Mar 2004
    The Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing (PATH) has released their "Top 10" building technologies for 2004. The Top 10 are practical, easy-to-use building technologies that are...
  • Promoting recycled cellulose fibre insulation in steel buildings
    News - 29 Feb 2004
    A seminar to promote the use of recycled cellulose paper fibre as insulation in steel building systems is being held on 22nd March in Banbury. The event marks the conclusion of a successful...
  • Steel versus concrete and wood for new homes
    News - 10 Feb 2004
    The Honolulu Advertiser has published an article questioning the environmental credentials of steel framed buildings as steel frames are rapidly becoming the most popular option for new homes. The...
  • Free steel frame cost estimator
    News - 8 Feb 2004
    A new spreadsheet program that helps steel fabricators, contractors, and designers quickly approximate the structural framing cost for a steel building is now available at no charge from the American...
  • Water cooling for steel framed buildings
    News - 14 Jan 2004
    The SCI and Oxford Brookes University have recently completed a Partners in Innovation project with Corus and Warmafloor to investigate the use of water cooled slabs in steel framed buildings. The...
  • US$10000 for innovative steel construction ideas
    News - 11 Dec 2003
    The American Institute of Steel Construction’s inaugural Multi-Story Residential Design Competition is offering a $10000 first prize for new and innovative solutions for structural steel and...
  • Architectural Flat Glass Recycling
    News - 29 Oct 2003
    In a Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) initiative the Steel Construction Institute (SCI) and the Centre for Window and Cladding Technology (CWCT) have teamed to put together a project to...
Reducing Embodied Carbon Through Design

Reducing Embodied Carbon Through Design

With an increase in the pressure to decarbonize the built environment and build more carbon-neutral buildings, the reduction of embodied carbon has become of great importance.

Calcium Carbonate Concrete: Building on Recycling

Calcium Carbonate Concrete: Building on Recycling

AZoBuild talks to Professors Noguchi and Maruyama about their research and development of Calcium Carbonate Concrete (CCC), a new material that has the potential to cause a sustainable revolution in the construction industry.