Other industries also would benefit. A 25-percent market share would require an additional 84,953 tons of zinc for galvanizing. One is cost. Material costs for steel framing are less than those for wood by 38 cents per square foot. But the cost of installed steel framing exceeds that of wood framing for several reasons.
Infrastructure is another barrier.
The process of engineering, estimating, ordering, producing, delivering, framing, complying with codes, and interacting with contractors is more complicated for steel framing than for wood. These are the Hawaii Steel Alliance, the Midwest Steel Framing Alliance, the Southern California Steel Framing Alliance, the Southeastern Steel Framing Alliance, and the Southern Ontario Steel Framing Alliance. Archives Return to New Steel home page.