Thinking with Galvanized Steel For Initial Architectural Concept
By incorporating galvanized steel in your architectural concept early in your design process, you can achieve innovative architectural forms that align with modern sustainability goals, ensuring your project stands the test of time—both structurally and environmentally.
Galvanized steel is the perfect material for those prioritizing sustainability and circular design. With its unbeatable durability, corrosion resistance and low maintenance requirements, galvanized steel supports long-lasting structures while reducing environmental impact. Its recyclability makes it invaluable within circular construction, allowing materials to be reused and repurposed without compromising strength or performance.
Aesthetic Versatility and Planning Support
We provide samples to help you visualize its appearance and ensure it aligns with your creative vision.
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Galvanized steel offers a distinctive aesthetic, characterized by its subtle, textured zinc finish which complements a wide range of architectural styles. If you’re unsure how galvanised steel will fit your project, we’re here to help.
Our expertise can guide you through planning approvals by showcasing the practicality, sustainability, and aesthetic value of galvanized steel to stakeholders and decision-makers.
Architectural Concept and the circular economy
The circular economy – a new way forward for Construction
A circular economy model can be used as a different way of designing and building than a traditional, linear way of construction. In place of conventional manufacture, design and fabrication, which discards materials, and which is designed from a cost driven perspective, a circular economy prioritises the idea of intelligent, reusable design.Â
A circular economy builds long term resilience and provides environmental and societal benefits.
If a material system was specially designed for the circular economy, hot dip galvanizing would be a perfect example:
- Hot Dip Galvanizing of steel products after fabrication delivers the highest levels of corrosion protection – the steel structure will often achieve its design life with no maintenance.
- The galvanized coating can follow the steel structure through multiple cycles of reuse.
- Galvanized coatings are bonded to the steel – allowing the steel product to be reused along with the original coating without need for recoating.
- Galvanized steel components that have reached the end of their design life, or are uninstalled for any other reason, can be regalvanized and returned to the original use.
- If the re-use cycles come to an end, both steel and zinc are recycled together in the well-established steel recycling processes with the zinc being returned, without loss of properties, to zinc production plants and eventually back into the galvanizing process.
Health, Safety & Planning Advice
EN ISO 1461
Basic specification for Hot Dip Galvanized coatings on Iron and Steel articles standards.
To ensure the best quality and technical backup service, it should be stated that the work be “processed by a member of the Galvanizers Association”.Â
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