We are reinventing reinforcing steel with our new range of ECO-REO™ products. These are products that can provide a more sustainable use of materials in structures and carry the additional branding of ECO-REO™, ECO-BAR™ or ECO-MESH™.
We are reinventing reinforcing steel with our new range of ECO-REO™ products. These are products that can provide a more sustainable use of materials in structures and carry the additional branding of ECO-REO™, ECO-BAR™ or ECO-MESH™.
Supporting information on environmental claims for specific OneSteel Reinforcing
ECO-REO™ products is given below:
ECONOMICAL - The products can give more cost-efficient cover and economy in the number of sheets or bars, or the volumes of steel needed to efficiently reinforce the structure and meet the design intent of the project.
ENVIRONMENTAL - OneSteel’s manufacturing of reinforcing steel utilises energy reducing polymer injection technology and recycled steel scrap content.
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ECO-BAR™ products include 500PLUS® BAMTEC®
and 500PLUS® PREFAB
BAMTEC® engineered reinforcing bar carpets can allow the size and positioning of reinforcing steel to be optimised with variable diameters and spacings.
Prefabricated Reinforcement is a more efficient process that can be designed to generates less waste and scrap on site.
ECO-MESH™ products include ONEMESH®, and UTEMESH®
Customised special run ONEMESH® can minimise duplication of reinforcing steel and scrap losses that result from excess lapping and trimming of mesh sheets. Engineered and tailored mesh solutions can include variable wire spacing and wire diameters and optimised mesh size (length and width).
Examples are the new UTEMESH® and the extra large (up to 9 m x 3 m) ONEMESH® Made to Size sheets which give more cost efficient cover and economy in the number of sheets used on projects.
ECO-REO™ products include TRUSSDEK®
Like reinforcing bar carpets and special meshes, TRUSSDEK® panels can reduce lapping and steel intensity.
• TRUSSDEK® serves as a permanent formwork system, therefore eliminating other formwork.
• Spacing between TRUSSDEK® panels can be optimised to reduce material, and concrete savings due to voiding of TRUSSDEK® panels can be significant.
• The volume of the steel reinforcing bars or mesh in a TRUSSDEK® slab can be up to 60% of that used in a conventional one-way reinforced-concrete slab.
• TRUSSDEK® panels can span up to 8.5 metres, which in steel-framed buildings can potentially lead to the complete elimination of the secondary steel beams
What OneSteel Reinforcing can offer customers
• If the customer talks to us in the early stages of the project we can suggest ways of designing the reinforcing such as spacing and diameters to optimise material use.
• This can improve the sustainability credentials of the project allowing the awarding of Green Star® steel credit points where appropriate as well as potentially reducing the costs of reinforcing steel in the project.
• OneSteel Reinforcing can encourage the practice of moving product off site into prefabrication which fulfils the intent to reduce waste on site, and provides the opportunity for dematerialisation and potentially speeding up construction.
• OneSteel Reinforcing is keen to assist customers in making progress towards adopting more sustainable practices.
• Case studies and videos detail examples of specific projects and customer testimonials where OneSteel Reinforcing has added value and assisted in saving time, cost and steel using our products and services on construction projects.
• Case studies are available at
www.reinforcing.com and Videos are available at
www.reinforcing.tv