Hot-rolled steel purlins predate modern metal building systems by decades. A multitude of industrial buildings constructed since the beginning of the twentieth century utilized hot-rolled channel and ...

1 to B.4), courtesy of Star Building Systems and Ceco Building Systems, includes section properties of cold-formed sections produced by those companies and by some other major metal building ...

Industry's move to electric arc furnaces and architects' specification of light gauge framing systems are helping to improve the sustainability of building projects ...