Timber steel & glass
Wood clearly dominates the self-build and kit home consciousness over here at present, interesting things are beginning to happen in the fields of steel off-site manufacture in Australia and America.
Steel is gaining in favour as more than just a useful material for building frameworks for what advocates claim are largely very obvious reasons:
- It possesses the highest strength to weight ratio of any building material currently being used.
- It is none combustible
- It is none organic and thus not prone to rot or elemental distortion
- There is a factory-governed consistency of quality.
- Advocates claim that there is less waste in construction
- Once made the material retains its shape, meaning no sudden sticky door or window frames.
- Steel is surprisingly lightweight making it easier to handle
Thursday, 04 October 2007
