Steel Receipts

ArcelorMittal Dofasco is one step closer to manufacturing clean, net-zero steel. EPDs are there to back their claims.

The day I spoke to Stan Lipkowski, Principal Projects Manager – Sustainability, Construction and Manufacturing Products for ArcelorMittal Dofasco, was a snowy Thursday in February. That normally wouldn’t be noteworthy, except that this year, that winter storm was the only time in the entire month it snowed.Everywhere you look, you can see the growing effects of climate change: changing weather…

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Engineers and architects talk about the value of data-driven science in the built environment

It was a Tuesday morning at the Canadian Steel Conference, and most of the attendants of the panel were still holding paper cups of coffee from the hotel buffet. The session – titled CFS 12-storey building case study – took up the biggest session room at the conference, with seating for 240 people. And it was close to a packed house. The panel was just one of the many ways ArcelorMittal has…

The Development From the Future

The PS1200 Fort Worth development shows innovative use of Galvalume™

In the midst of rectangular buildings, low-rise apartments, and cookie-cutter commercial strips, the PS1200 development looks like an alien invasion in progress. The new Fort Worth, Texas project is all curved lines and shining steel, a contrast to the brick and dull-metal buildings surrounding it. It looks like something from a decades-past vision of the future: undulating arches of corrugated…

Saguenay’s Steel Soccer Stadium a Perfect Goal

New Stade de Soccer Saguenay integrates prefab panels and local flair

It’s late at night on a crisp, fall Wednesday, and a few tired parents trudge back to their minivans, their children bouncing around them in jerseys and long socks, soccer cleats hanging off their shoulders. Behind them shines the new Stade de Soccer Saguenay, a tall mixture of steel, gray metals, and glass in the middle of a Smart Centre shopping plaza. It’s a new experience for the citize…

It’s What’s on the Inside that Counts

Structural steel serves as support for Toronto’s newest skyscraper

Tim Verhey has a problem with Steel Design Magazine. “You write too much about exterior steel,” the Executive Vice President, Operations and Engineering of the Walters Group jokes, shaking my hand before sitting down for our interview. “A lot of light gauge steel stuff. It’s interesting, but what about structural steel?” What about structural steel, indeed? With all the incredible …

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