About Cold-Formed Steel

About Cold-Formed Steel Framing: Simple, Safe and Strong

Cold-formed steel framing offers architects, builders and specifiers a range of features and benefits that all contribute to shorter construction times, lower material costs, safer structures, and faster revenue generation. Steel is strong, safe, durable, versatile and cost-effective. Steel has the exceptional environmental advantage of being highly recycled and infinitely recyclable. Steel is tough and does not rot, spawl, split or absorb moisture and is resistant to pests unlike other building materials. And from an aesthetic or architectural viewpoint, steel structures can easily deliver creative design options and excellent value.

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How cold-formed steel framing is made

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Announcements

Press Release - July 23, 2024
Don Allen Ready to Lead
SFIA's new ED begins Aug. 1
Don Allen, P.E., S.E., LEED AP, is the Steel Framing Industry Association’s (SFIA) new executive director on August 1. Allen succeeds Larry Williams, who is retiring. Allen says he is "excited to work and partner with the SFIA staff and leadership team" to grow the steel framing market.

Press Release - June 1,2023
On May 1, 2023, the Cold-Formed Steel Engineers Institute (CFSEI), the steel framing industry’s leading professional design association, moved from its former home with the American Iron and Steel Institute to become part of the SFIA.

Tonnage Reports - 2022
These reports provides buyers and users of cold-formed steel framing in the United States with an industry-wide statistical summary of the volume of steel.

A Fire Service Professional’s View

The increased use of wood framing in mid-rise buildings has been accompanied by a growing incidence of major fires that have destroyed these combustible structures both during construction.

SFIA Technical Guide - Release
Technical Guide for Cold‐Formed Steel Framing Products, provides with a comprehensive tool for designing with cold‐formed steel framing members.