Consumer Benefits

Steel provides a number of benefits to the consumer including:

• High strength results in safer structures, less maintenance and slower aging of structure
• Fire safety
• Not vulnerable to termites
• No additional preservative chemicals are required over and above the galvanising process to treat steel, unlike the treatment of timber
• Not vulnerable to any type of fungi or organism
• Less probability of foundation problems - 5 times lighter than wood which results in less movement
• Less probability of damage in an earthquake - lighter structure with stronger connections results in less seismic force
• Less probability of damage in high winds - stronger connections, rivetted and screwed versus nailed