| Most people know that wood is not really a | | | | losing their structural properties. With the help of |
| recyclable building material except for grinding it up | | | | the roll forming process metals are now taking on |
| and using it for other uses not necessarily related | | | | a new role in the construction industry. It is much |
| to the building industry. Its ground up products can | | | | easier to prefabricate materials like roofing, |
| be used for mulches, surfacing materials for | | | | structural supports, and beams that can be used |
| pathways and bedding products. It can be | | | | in both residential and commercial buildings. |
| pressed into boards but it will never be used for | | | | A lot of people are not familiar with roll formed |
| structural purposes after being recycled. Unlike | | | | products, at least when that is the name used. |
| wood, metal can and is recycled into structural | | | | Most people have seen a sheet metal roof with |
| building materials and can be done again and again. | | | | its scalloped appearance but didn't refer to it as |
| It is part of a category of division five | | | | roll formed. As the use of metal becomes more |
| construction materials in the greening of the | | | | prevalent in the industry, descriptors like roll form |
| construction industry. This division includes | | | | channels will be used more and more in the |
| structural steel, metal deck, cold-formed metal | | | | vocabulary of construction workers and the |
| framing (steel studs), railings, sheet metal | | | | general public. |
| fabrications, castings and ornamental metals. | | | | In order for metals to become part of the |
| These categories can be made from a variety of | | | | greening of the construction industry, people need |
| different metals including steel, galvanized steel, | | | | to have a mindset change in the way they look |
| stainless steel, aluminum, copper, bronze and | | | | at metals. Metals are not typically looked at as |
| brass. For those who are looking for recycled | | | | environmentally friendly materials. The cost of |
| products, and who isn't these days, steel, | | | | mining, manufacturing and transportation of metals |
| aluminum and copper have the ability to easily be | | | | are some of the highest in the construction |
| recycled. Actually all of the metals presented here | | | | material world and it's going up as speculators |
| and including some not presented here have the | | | | raise the prices. This, however, doesn't take away |
| ability to be recycled. When it comes to building | | | | the positives like recycling, strength, durability and |
| materials, metals are unique since they can be | | | | very little out-gassing, putting them into |
| re-manufactured or recycled indefinitely without | | | | environmentally friendly materials. |