The CFS-NEES Phase 2 building was ultimately framed with nonstructural elements including exterior OSB, interior drywall, stairways, interior partition walls, and exterior weatherproofing. When ...

DYERSVILLE, Iowa, Sept. 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- ClearSpan Structures is excited to announce the official launch of their Cold Formed Steel Buildings, giving them one of the most complete structural ...

This Behind the Scenes article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation. Academia and industry are collaborating in a new effort to engineer earthquake-ready ...

Recently, a major fire raced through the AvalonBay at Edgewater apartment community in New Jersey, destroying several hundred units and displacing the residents of the luxury development in the middle ...

Cold Formed Steel (CFS), also known as light gauge steel (LGS), construction is a practical, code approved solution to many of the limitations that builders face today when using traditional ...

Cold-formed steel (CFS) has emerged as a versatile and sustainable material in modern construction, offering considerable advantages in terms of weight, ease of fabrication and enhanced performance ...

This document updates the 2008 edition of “Thermal Design Guide for Exterior Walls.” It integrates the results of extensive hot box tests of cold-formed steel wall assemblies to provide up-to-date, ...

The building that partially collapsed in London in an incident that left two construction workers dead was built using cold-formed flat steel, an increasingly popular construction material for ...

The process of cold working involves the strengthening of steel material by physically manipulating the material below the recrystallization temperature. The recrystallization temperature is defined ...