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The efficiency of steel can, therefore, bring new and renovated constructions up to higher standards and improve economic, social, and environmental performances. Steel has all of the attributes required by the 21st century construction sector, and its inherent adaptability makes it an attractive option for an unpredictable and rapidly changing future.
At Arcelor Mittal, we are proud to serve a full range of customers, including manufacturers and contractors, who develop systems and methods for using our products and solutions to facilitate reduced impact designs.
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Make an impact with LCA
8 February 2023Join ArcelorMittal in Venice on 14 February for ‘Make an impact with LCA’.This free seminar will explore the application of Life Cycle Assessment and its potential effect on the design, construction, and management of buildings and cities.Frederic Delcuve, R&D Portfolio Director at ArcelorMittal, will present ‘Building Life Cycle Assessment of a multi-story office building considering different structural materials.’ Other presentations and discussions will cover topics such as EPDs in decision making, the pros and cons of LCA, and integrating embodied carbon assessment into the structural design of tall buildings.Details: Date & time: Tuesday 14 February 2023 from 9-13 CET Location: IUAV University of Venice (Palazzo Badoer) The seminar will be held in English Click here to reserve your free spot.
Event newsNew SiCA lectures: Composite beams - Shear connection
14 December 2022The newest SiCA: Steel in Construction Academy lectures – Composite beams: Shear connection I, II, and III – are available now!These three new lectures cover topics such as: the types and behaviour of shear connectors load transfer the behaviour of partial shear connection in composite beams practical methods used for design at the ultimate and serviceability limit states the design of shear connection in continuous composite beams hogging moment regions
Website newsPLGBC Green Building Summit: XCarb® low-carbon steel wins ‘Sustainable product of the year’
21 October 2022The 12th edition of the Polish Green Building Council (PLGBC) Green Building Summit took place in Warsaw from 6-7 October 2022 with ArcelorMittal Steligence® as a partner of the event.ArcelorMittal was awarded ‘Sustainable product of the year’ for its XCarb® recycled and renewably produced low-carbon steel.The PLGBC Green Building Summit – a symbol of green progress – is a conference for the Polish real estate, construction, and architecture industries. The theme of this year’s event was 'Time to (re)think'. This cyclical event is dedicated to everyone interested in climate issues, sustainable construction, and sustainable development goals (SDGs), including: investors, developers, tenants, architects, designers, engineers, manufacturers, financial institutions, local governments, top management, municipal activists, NGOs, students, university professors, and the media.
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Make an impact with LCA
Published: 8 February 2023
Join ArcelorMittal in Venice on 14 February for ‘Make an impact with LCA’.
This free seminar will explore the application of Life Cycle Assessment and its potential effect on the design, construction, and management of buildings and cities.
Frederic Delcuve, R&D Portfolio Director at ArcelorMittal, will present ‘Building Life Cycle Assessment of a multi-story office building considering different structural materials.’ Other presentations and discussions will cover topics such as EPDs in decision making, the pros and cons of LCA, and integrating embodied carbon assessment into the structural design of tall buildings.
Details:
- Date & time: Tuesday 14 February 2023 from 9-13 CET
- Location: IUAV University of Venice (Palazzo Badoer)
- The seminar will be held in English
Click here to reserve your free spot.
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New SiCA lectures: Composite beams - Shear connection
Published: 14 December 2022
The newest SiCA: Steel in Construction Academy lectures – Composite beams: Shear connection I, II, and III – are available now!
These three new lectures cover topics such as:
- the types and behaviour of shear connectors
- load transfer
- the behaviour of partial shear connection in composite beams
- practical methods used for design at the ultimate and serviceability limit states
- the design of shear connection in continuous composite beams
- hogging moment regions
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Constructalia
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PLGBC Green Building Summit: XCarb® low-carbon steel wins ‘Sustainable product of the year’
The 12th edition of the Polish Green Building Council (PLGBC) Green Building Summit took place in Warsaw from 6-7 October 2022 with ArcelorMittal Steligence® as a partner of the event.
ArcelorMittal was awarded ‘Sustainable product of the year’ for its XCarb® recycled and renewably produced low-carbon steel.
The PLGBC Green Building Summit – a symbol of green progress – is a conference for the Polish real estate, construction, and architecture industries. The theme of this year’s event was 'Time to (re)think'.
This cyclical event is dedicated to everyone interested in climate issues, sustainable construction, and sustainable development goals (SDGs), including: investors, developers, tenants, architects, designers, engineers, manufacturers, financial institutions, local governments, top management, municipal activists, NGOs, students, university professors, and the media.
Event overview & the decarbonisation of construction
This international event was held in a hybrid format. The programme included talks, panels, and presentations. This year, there were two days of activities: the first was a day-long conference, culminating in the presentation of the PLGBC Green Building Awards. The second day was dedicated to the decarbonisation of construction as part of the #BuildingLife project.
ArcelorMittal won the PLGBC Green Building Award for its recently launched XCarb® recycled and renewably produced low-carbon steel in the ‘Sustainable product of the year’ category.
On the second day, dedicated to the decarbonisation of construction, Maciej Chrzanowski (PhD Eng), Steligence® structural engineer in Poland, gave a presentation on 'The role of materials in reducing a building's carbon footprint'.
Steel as we know it is undergoing a major transformation. Modern, sustainable construction requires building products and materials to have a minimal or zero embedded carbon footprint.
ArcelorMittal has shown that steel can be produced responsibly, respecting both human rights and the environment. The steel solutions are lightweight, strong, and highly reliable, but they are also circular and environmentally friendly. ArcelorMittal is not only a leader in the production of steel products, but also in innovation.
The use of low-carbon steel alone has a definite positive impact on reducing the embedded carbon footprint of planned buildings, but the key is to take the right approach to the building under consideration and to its design by optimising solutions, especially in terms of the embedded carbon footprint. As such, preceding the low-carbon steel itself, ArcelorMittal has introduced Steligence® to the construction market.
About the Polish Green Building Council (PLGBC)
The Polish Green Building Council (PLGBC) is a non-governmental organisation. Since 2008, it has been working towards the transformation of buildings, cities, and their surroundings in such a way that they are planned, designed, constructed, used, modernised, demolished, and processed as sustainably as possible.
The organisation supports the creation of sustainable buildings for all by:
- working to halt climate change and adapt to new conditions
- applying the principles of circular economy
- bettering the well-being, quality of life, and health of society
- enhancing biodiversity
The Polish Green Building Council is part of a global community of more than 70 green building organisations brought together under the World Green Building Council.
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Steel in construction
The modern high-performance construction sector is under increasing pressure to reduce waste and increase recycling by choosing the best products and technologies currently available. With steel products and technologies being inherently low waste through all stages of their life cycle, steel has its ever-increasing significance in today’s construction sector, driven by market demand for sustainable materials and procedures of the 21st century.
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Mainly, but not limited to, the major environmental benefits of steel include:
- 100% recyclability
- Minimum on-site waste due to high quality shop prefabrication
- Life cycle energy savings due to insulation and air tightness of the envelope
- A long-lasting structure that reduces the need for future building resources (zero depletion of iron resources)
A similar review of progress made in steel buildings demonstrated that:
- Steel construction is efficient, competitive, and makes a significant contribution to society.
- Construction can be quickly assembled using high-quality, nearly defect-free steel components that are efficiently manufactured off-site.
- Steel framing and envelope systems allow, together with other materials, for building design with low overall environmental impacts.
- Steel-based construction systems provide flexible spaces that have the potential to be easily modified and adapted so that the building’s life can be extended by accommodating changes in use, layout, and size.
- At the end of a building's life, steel components can be dismantled, reused, or recycled without degradation of properties.