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Avoid Corrosion When Using Steel and Concrete

The article discusses about usage of steel and wood in construction. If you are building a house using concrete masonry for the foundation and cold-formed steel framing for the floor, you need to be concerned with possible corrosion problems due to the direct contact between steel and concrete. Connecting conventional...

Tags: NAHB Research Center, steel, wall, technique

White papers 2004-02-01

Hybrid Wood and Steel Details - Builders Guide

Cold-formed steel has been widely used in commercial buildings, especially in non-load bearing partitions and curtain wall applications. In both commercial and residential construction, cold-formed steel sections are increasingly finding use as primary structural members, such as beams, floor joists, roof trusses, and load-bearing walls. Despite the availability of cold-formed...

Tags: Construction, NAHB Research Center, steel, residential construction, wall, barrier, performance, industry

White papers 2003-07-01

Prescriptive Method for Connecting Cold-Formed Steel Framing to Insulating Concrete Form Walls in Residential Construction

Builders who have combined insulating concrete forms and cold-formed steel framing in homes complain of a lack of information on making the connections. This publication is intended to alleviate these problems by providing construction details and schedules for the connection of cold-formed steel frame walls, floor decks, and roofs to...

Tags: Construction, home construction, residential construction, wall

White papers 2003-02-01

Residential Steel Framing: Fire and Acoustic Details

Cold-formed steel has been widely used in commercial buildings, especially in non-load bearing partitions and curtain wall applications. This report investigates regulatory requirements, available test data, and typical practices relating to acoustics and fire protection of cold-formed steel framing. This document starts by providing an overview of fire and acoustic...

Tags: acoustics, wall, performance

White papers 2002-09-01

Design for a Cold-Formed Steel Framed Manufactured Home: Technical Support Document

The use of cold-formed steel in the structural system of residential construction has taken hold in some site building markets but it potentially offers far more value to the manufactured home industry. This report documents a prototype home, consisting of a structural frame made entirely of cold-formed steel components that...

Tags: residential construction

White papers 2002-03-01

Innovative Residential Floor Construction: Horizontal Diaphragm Values for Cold-Formed Steel Framing

For centuries home builders in the United States have made wood their material of choice because of its satisfactory performance, abundant supply, and relatively low cost. However, over the past several years, lumber prices have experienced unpredictable price fluctuations that affect affordability. Builders have also voiced concerns with lumber quality....

Tags: NAHB Research Center, performance, industry

White papers 1999-03-01

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CONSTRUCTION DESIGNED TO RISE like a giant steel and glass Christmas tree from a peninsula along the Moscow River, Crystal Island, if built, would be the world's biggest building as measured in floor space-four times the size of the mammoth Pentagon. Foster + Partners, the British firm...

Articles 2008-07-01

Commercial Metals Company Closes Purchase of PHP Nike S.A

IRVING, Texas, June 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Commercial Metals Company , headquartered in Irving, Texas, announced today that its subsidiary, CMC Poland, has completed the acquisition of substantially all the outstanding shares of PHP Nike S.A. located in Dabrowa Gornicza, Poland. Established in 1997, PHP Nike S.A. is...

Articles 2008-06-05

China Pharma Holdings, Inc. Donates Medicine for Sichuan Earthquake Relief

NEW YORK and HAIKOU, China, May 16 /Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- China Pharma Holdings, Inc. ("China Pharma") (BULLETIN BOARD: CPHI) which develops, manufactures, and markets generic and brand bio-pharmaceutical products in China, announced today that it donated 2 million RMB (approximately US$285,714) worth of its products including antibiotics, anti- virus...

Articles 2008-05-16

China Precision Steel Announces Third Quarter Fiscal 2008 Results

SHANGHAI, China, May 16 /Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- China Precision Steel , a niche precision steel processing company principally engaged in producing and selling high precision cold-rolled steel products, announced today its results for the third quarter of fiscal 2008 ended March 31, 2008. 2008 Third Fiscal Quarter Highlights ...

Articles 2008-05-16

China Precision Steel Announces Date Change for Third Quarter Earnings Conference Call

SHANGHAI, China, May 15 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- China Precision Steel , a niche precision steel processing company principally engaged in producing and selling high precision cold-rolled steel products, today announced that the date of its earnings conference call originally scheduled on Thursday, May 15, 2008 has been moved to Friday, May...

Articles 2008-05-15

China Precision Steel Announces Conference Call to Discuss Third Quarter of Fiscal Year 2008 Results

SHANGHAI, China, May 9 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- China Precision Steel , a niche precision steel processing company principally engaged in producing and selling high precision cold-rolled steel products, today announced that it will conduct a conference call at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time on Thursday, May 15, 2008 to discuss the third...

Articles 2008-05-09

Rekindling U.S. holistic power in the 21st century

Captain Charles Chao Rong Phua, Singapore Armed Forces--Secretary of Defense Robert Gates's article, "Beyond Guns and Steel" (Military Review, January-February 2008), seeks to rekindle the holistic power that the U.S. possessed and applied after World War II, but gradually forgot about after the Cold War. Gates's call for "strengthening our...

Articles 2008-05-01

Kobe Steel establishes steel processing venture in eastern China.(Metals and alloys)

Kobe Steel Ltd has established a joint venture, called Kobe Special Steel Wire Products Pinghu Co Ltd, to process special steel wire rod in Pinghu, in China's Zhejiang Province. The joint venture will turn special steel wire rod into cold heading quality CHQ...

Articles 2008-02-01

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Santa trolley at museum Saturday The fourth annual Santa trolley will be held 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Pikes Peak Trolley Museum, 2333 Steele Drive. Take a ride, visit with Santa and Mrs. Claus and take home a small...

Articles 2007-12-10

European steelmakers seeking anti-dumping action on Chinese imports

BRUSSELS AFP — European steelmakers called on Monday for EU anti-dumping action against imports from China, Taiwan and South Korea, which they claim are flooding the European market at unfair prices. The European steel and iron confederation Eurofer said it had filed two dumping complaints with the European...

Articles 2007-10-29

PTC Alliance Says Operations Continue Without Interruption at Alliance, Ohio Plant Despite Nine-Day Strike

To: BUSINESS EDITORS Contact: Jeff Lloyd or Tom Becker, both of Sitrick And Company, +1-212- 573-6100, for PTC Alliance PITTSBURGH, Oct. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- PTC Alliance Corp., a leadingmanufacturer and marketer of welded and cold drawn mechanical steeltubing, said today that manufacturing operations at its Alliance,Ohio plant have not...

Articles 2007-10-09

Esmark Incorporated and Wheeling-Pittsburgh Corporation Participate in Purchase of ArcelorMittal USA's Sparrows Point Facility

Craig T. Bouchard Named Chairman and CEO of E(2) Acquisition Corp. CHICAGO & WHEELING, W. Va. -- Esmark Incorporated and Wheeling-Pittsburgh Corporation confirmed today that a joint venture sponsored by both companies has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase substantially all of the assets of ArcelorMittal USA's...

Articles 2007-08-02

Hero emerges: Former soldier stepped up when he saw lives in danger

Eric Fullerton says he didn't feel his skin being sliced when Curtis Allgier cut his throat, but he did feel the cold steel of the serrated knife and hear his flesh ripping. Fullerton, a 59-year-old truck driver, was cut several times along the right side of his...

Articles 2007-06-27

The Hitman and hurt: Hatton promises a fight night to savour

The sound of a medicine ball thudding relentlessly into the flattened midriff of Ricky Hatton is an indication of what he knows he must endure in Las Vegas next Saturday. Pain. It is a ritual designed to steel his belly for the venomous, rib-cracking assault he knows will be coming...

Articles 2007-06-17