Steel is a superior construction material with many benefits that have brought it to the forefront as one of the best and most feasible building materials for both commercial and residential construction.

The immense strength of steel framing is a great advantage to buildings but one of its other very important features is its flexibility.  It can bend without cracking allowing a steel building to flex when it is pushed to one side by severe wind or even an earthquake. A further characteristic of steel is its plasticity or ductility meaning that when subjected to great force, it will not suddenly crack like glass, but slowly bend out of shape.  This property allows steel buildings to start to bend, or deform, thus giving warning to inhabitants to escape.  Failure in steel frames is not sudden – a steel structure rarely collapses and in the majority of cases performs far better in earthquake than most other materials because of all its properties.

Read more about steel framing in construction here.