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Building a high rise or any multi-level building demands the use of light-weight yet strong materials. Steel, by virtue of its high strength to weight ratio enables large spans and light weight construction. Steel structures can have a variety of structural forms like braced frames and moment resistant frames suitable to meet the specific requirements of higher buildings. Taller buildings also face higher wind loads, and hence steel being flexible, allows the building to move and deflect with the wind forces, rather than making it rigid like concrete.

Building tall with steel also allows more floors per total height of the building. This is due to the fact that the building structure in steel is lighter and more efficient, and has beams and that are not required to be as deep as those of concrete to support the floors. The ability to have lighter sections, allowing the same load bearing capacity per floor, allows space for almost 1.5 extra floors in the same overall external height of the building.

Pre-engineered steel systems, that are our specialty, allow further optimization and further efficiency in multistory steel building design. Delving into the mechanics of high rise building construction, we see that the introduction of hot rolled steel sections, using higher grade steel add more strength to the building. Better steel decking as a construction material brought about a revolution in the steel building space. Composite steel decking laid on each floor adds ability to transfer lateral loads more effectively through the structure aiding the structure to be stronger than conventional rigid materials. This added strength per floor allows the overall core steel structure to be lighter and even more efficient. High-rise frames are constructed of H-columns or box columns, (vertical-support members) and H-beams (horizontal-support members). Cross bracing or shear walls are used to provide a structural frame with greater lateral rigidity in order to withstand wind stresses.