Picture provided by buildsteel.org. According to the National Association of Home Builders’s (NAHB) standard estimates of lumber used to build the average home, the recent spike in softwood lumber prices has caused the price of an average new single-family home to...
Picture provided by buildsteel.org. Brief: The price of lumber for September delivery rose 3.1% to an all-time high of $641.60 per thousand board feet, the Wall Street Journal reported. The new high, a growth of $19 since last month, beats the previous high of $639,...
Cold-Formed Steel Cold Formed Steel is arguably one of the most sustainable and increasingly-popular contemporary building products. This material is found in the most progressive homes and buildings of modern society. But what exactly is this product that we have...
Before engineered wood joists were invented in the late 1960s, builders used dimensional lumber to support their framing operations. These were moved aside with the creation of i-joists, named for their shape, in 1970. Engineered wood joists made from plywood became...
Introduction Within the context of Cold Formed Steel, a Hybrid Connector is defined as a clip that has more than one use. There are only a handful of these versatile clips on the market, and today we are adding another one. Our original model for this clip was the...
The Steel Network, Inc. (TSN), is pleased to share that it has been recognized as a finalist for the prestigious 2019 Secretary of Defense Support Freedom Award, given by the Department of Defense. This recognition is coordinated by Employer Support of the Guard and...
Today we are releasing the newest version of our Cold Formed Steel (CFS) software. For the better part of the last 20 years, we've had a team working every day to develop SteelSmart System (SSS) and make it better. We get feedback from the market on a weekly basis,...
The Steel Network, Inc. (TSN) is pleased to announce that its manufacturing facility in Durham, NC has successfully completed the renewal of it's ISO certification and the update to the new ISO 9001:2015 standard for its quality management system effective November...
Hurricane Florence struck the east coast of North Carolina on September 9th, 2018. It proceeded to ruin thousands of homes, kill over 50 people, and cause well over 40 billion in damages. As devastating as these statistics are, they only tell part of the story. One of...