DYERSVILLE, Iowa, Sept. 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- ClearSpan Structures is excited to announce the official launch of their Cold Formed Steel Buildings, giving them one of the most complete structural ...

Cold-formed steel (CFS) has emerged as a versatile and sustainable material in modern construction, offering considerable advantages in terms of weight, ease of fabrication and enhanced performance ...

Cold-formed steel portal frames have emerged as a versatile and efficient structural system in modern construction. Their design exploits thin-walled steel sections, which are cold-formed to yield ...

The CFS-NEES Phase 2 building was ultimately framed with nonstructural elements including exterior OSB, interior drywall, stairways, interior partition walls, and exterior weatherproofing. When ...

Structural steel is a type of construction material that is made from specific grades of steel. It is manufactured in a range of industry standard cross-sectional shapes. Structural steel grades are ...

The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) has published three new cold-formed steel framing research reports: 1) “RP15-3: Advancing Seismic Simulation of Cold-Formed Steel Framed Buildings,” 2) ...

S500MC is a high strength hot rolled structural steel used for cold formed components. As S500MC is a load bearing steel, considerations regarding suitability need to be made at the procurement stage.

This Behind the Scenes article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation. If I asked you to design a building to withstand unknown forces, what would you do? You ...

This Behind the Scenes article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation. Academia and industry are collaborating in a new effort to engineer earthquake-ready ...

A 10-story building looms above UC San Diego’s earthquake shake table near Scripps Ranch. Next week, the device will simulate an earthquake to see whether a structure made from a lightweight, recycled ...