ABSTRACT
A sustainable steel building is a building designed for adaptation by making new loose fit or more flexible to allow for easier reuse. Sustainable design can be defined as a set of processes aimed at delivering efficiently built assets in the long term. Sustainable or green building must combine environmental and commercial benefits. The primary goals of designing sustainable steel buildings are to: enhance the quality of life for users and to cause minimum or no damage to the natural and social environments; and reduce the energy required to make, adapt or use a building. Building adaptation is an area where proven technologies using steel elements/framing have been shown to result in considerable reduction in energy use the potential for future improvements exists. Heat loss from the building is partly through warming up the fresh air that is replacing exhausted and polluted indoor air, and partly by heat flowing out through the structure.
