Items Tagged with 'SFIA (Steel Framing Industry Association)'

The SFIA announced its 2024 Industry Project Awards recently. The awards demonstrate excellence within the industry under many categories.

The association will be presenting an update on SFIA business, as well as a general session following the annual meeting in Charlotte during this year's BUILD25.

An early evening announcement leaves American industry scrambling to adjust.

The SDI transferred the responsibility for maintaining 12, S900 series American National Standards, formerly maintained by the American Iron and Steel Institute, to the Steel Framing Industry Association for management by the newly formed SFIA Standards Committee.

Acrisure Arena, a groundbreaking sustainability project in Palm Desert, California, features 471 tons of ClarkDietrich cold-formed steel framing. The award-winning, net-zero-pending arena overcame scorching heat and tight deadlines.

On Dec. 3, in a live ceremony held online, Don Allen, executive director of the Steel Framing Industry Association, announced the nine project winners of the 2024 SFIA Industry Project Awards.

As an accredited ANSI Standards Development Organization, the Steel Framing Industry Association invites individuals to participate in the development of standards for cold-formed steel framing. Interested individuals are required to complete a survey, which is due no later than Nov. 29.

The book Cold-Formed Steel Connections to Other Materials: A Design Guide is a comprehensive guide from ASCE, offering engineers practical examples that address the challenges of connecting cold-formed steel to other materials.

Cold-formed steel framing manufacturing rose 3.8 percent in Q3, building on previous quarterly gains. The SFIA’s latest data reflects a larger share of the CFS product market, with more manufacturers reporting, but it also shows the industry’s strength at this time.