Why Build with Light Gauge Steel? Lower Environmental Impact

Lower environmental impacts by using LGS

The environmental impacts of using steel are significantly lower than using timber in construction.

It has been proven that material waste is reduced when using modern forms of building compared to traditional methods1 With roll-forming technology our offsite manufacturing approach leads to less material waste as our processes are designed to minimise defects and unused materials are recycled for the next project.

A 168m2 house uses 40 to 50 or more trees - approximately 1 acre of trees.  However if the same house is built with steel, it is equivalent to around 6 scrapped cars.

 

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