No other structural material can match steel's speed.

Supercharge your project schedule! A fabricator can work on your steel package during site preparation and foundation work, taking full advantage of controlled shop conditions to give you high-quality steel and reduce the number of onsite fixes that delay schedules.

Steel will arrive at the jobsite as soon as it’s needed, and erection takes place at lightning speed in any season without waiting for forming, shoring, or curing.

Steel feels the need--the need for speed. Learn more about how steel is leaving other materials in the dust at aisc.org/needforspeed.

Harness the Power of an Unmatched Supply Chain

Steel’s fully integrated supply chain leads the construction industry with superior availability and advanced technology.

Domestic structural steel is readily available with U.S. mills producing roughly 10 million tons, enough to meet the needs of the built environment. The country’s huge network of service centers also have an extensive inventory to meet today’s needs.

Stay on the Cutting Edge

Advanced technologies like building information modeling (BIM), computer-aided manufacturing, and robotic fabrication streamline all stages of design and construction while facilitating collaboration, reducing or eliminating errors, improving safety, and cutting project costs.

Fewer Structural Components = Faster Erection

Structural steel is the most efficient construction material out there. Longer spans (only possible with steel) mean fewer columns, and less weight means faster foundation construction.

Full Strength from the Get-Go

Cut your project schedule--unlike conventional concrete framing, a steel frame is ready to go as soon as it’s erected. This means that the construction schedule is no longer subject to the time and on-site labor costs of placing formwork and waiting for concrete to cure. In fact, the steel in the new SpeedCore system is designed to advance four stories above the surrounding structure in compliance with OSHA erection standards. With a concrete core, floor framing can lag behind the core for 8 floors or more--and there might be additional delays thanks to inaccurate embed placement. That’s a difference of 12 floors--a decent-sized office building in most of the country.

Fast-Track Projects That Became Instant Icons

Structural steel offers project teams a variety of innovative building systems and modularization options that speed up construction and erection!

200 Park Avenue, San Jose, Calif. Silicon Valley is all about the future, and this dual-core, 20-story, class-A office development--the nation’s second SpeedCore project--is a prime example. Choosing SpeedCore cut 35% off the erection schedule (that’s three months) when compared with a cast-in-place concrete core. SpeedCore is also thinner, resulting in more leasable square footage.	North Hall at Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, R.I. How do you cram without pulling an all-nighter? Use a hybrid steel/wood system to erect six stories in less than three weeks. Erectors framed the building with steel, then dropped in wooden floor panels. Students live, work, and play in an airy structure with slender steel columns and exposed wooden ceilings and floors.	Rainier Square, Seattle As the first building to implement the SpeedCore system, Rainier Square has effectively reinvented the rules of high-rise steel construction. Using SpeedCore shortened the tower's original 32-month construction schedule by ten months and allowed the construction team to erect a speedy four floors per week.
Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge, Westchester-Rockland Counties, N.Y. Opting to construct this bridge with steel allowed for the modularization of much of the superstructure construction. The relatively light superstructure allowed for large picks, which saved time, minimized the number of construction activities that needed to occur at elevation, and provided an overall safer construction process.	One Vanderbilt, New York The tower employed a steel-first erection sequence. The team designed columns, girders, and lateral bracing to stand alone in the core. Then as steel erection proceeded, concrete work followed the structural steel up the building, usually within six floors from the top. This approach allowed the team to absorb potential delays in concrete placement while maximizing the impact of speedy erection times on the overall schedule.	I-240 MemFix4, Memphis, Tenn. To avoid prolonged closures on this highly-traveled interstate, the project team turned to accelerated bridge construction (ABC): They built several bridges off-site, rolled them to the site, then used large crawler cranes to lift them into place. With these methods, the team was able to roll in the new superstructures during just a handful of short weekend interstate closures. .

Structural Steel: First in the Core, First in the Industry

New technologies allow you to design, fabricate, and construct a steel building 50% faster than you could just a few years ago.

Steel structures endure for a century or more, but the industry doesn’t stand still.

Use the new composite SpeedCore system to erect a structure in 43% less time than it would take with a traditional cast-in-place, reinforced concrete core--up to four floors in a week!

Here’s how it works: Erectors install prefabricated panels consisting of two structural steel plates held together with cross-connecting tie rods. After erection, these panels are filled with concrete, creating a unique sandwich-style structure that combines strength and stability with rapid erection. SpeedCore is a non-proprietary system, meaning many American steel fabricators can produce the panels.

SpeedCore projects are popping up across the country.