The Cleveland Directory of Green Building Resources Green Building Materials Metals Steel is increasingly being used for residential structures. Steel framing can be used as wall, floor, and roof structural members. Due to rising wood prices, declining quality of wood, and increasing recycled metal content, steel is becoming more cost-effective and environmental.
Steel has a number of advantages over wood.
Various sources agree that steel framing is highly durable, impervious to insect attack, its non-flammable, will not rot, and is recyclable.