Environmental

Transcon Steel is committed to helping to reduce the environmental impact on our world by providing wood-free building materials that do not off-gas, contain no CFC's, HCFC's, nor formaldehydes. Our goal is to allow more trees to remain living to produce oxygen and remove the ever growing CO2 pollution problem. You can build a healthier, safer place for your family and employees to live and work.

Air

"Carbon Footprint" awareness is more observed than ever before. Carbon Footprint is a "measure of the impact human activities have on the environment in terms of the amount of green house gases produced, measured in units of carbon dioxide". It is meant to be useful for individuals and organizations to conceptualize their personal (or organizational) impact in contributing to global warming. Transcon Steel systems are an effective long-term solution to reducing the amount of Carbon contribution by means of reducing the energy consumption of buildings and zero-waste management.

Sound pollution is another problem that is on the increase. How many times have you been disturbed by your neighbors, be it a house, apartment, hotel, or office suite annoying you during work, sleep, or relaxation. Transcon has systems that reach a sound transmission coefficient of 70. That is equivalent to a movie theater environment. Great when privacy is of the utmost importance.

Just as important as keeping sound out, the Transcon Steel Ultra Frame panel keeps sound in. The Ultra Frame system is filled with solid mass insulation that produces reflective sound environments. It is great for theater rooms, production sets, sound rooms, and conference rooms. The Ultra Frame panel can be used for the floor, wall, and roof systems creating an effective sound barrier envelope.

Waste Reduction

Transcon Steel is a leader in waste reduction responsibility. The entire waste-management system design has been thoroughly investigated to delivery a product to market that delivers:

Zero-waste materials
Zero-waste manufacturing
Zero-waste delivery
Zero-waste jobsite assembly
Zero-waste end-of-life product recycling

Over 30% of all annual landfill waste is construction materials. Transcon Steel stands out as a leader in paving a new path of zero-waste management construction practices. Transcon Steel is able to achieve this approach by having developed a pre-engineered, pre-fabricated building system that is comprised of EPS insulation and cold formed steel. Transcon Steel generates approximately a 2% waste factor in production. The remaining EPS and steel product is 100% recycled by local recycling centers. The product is delivered to site pre-fabricated including window and door rough openings. The products have a design life of 275-1200 years and can be fully recycled into new EPS or steel products at the building’s end-of-useful life.

Water Responsibility

Transcon Steel has approached the global market with buiding materials that reduce the demands on water supplies.

Water Conservation - With a majority of construction world wide implementing the use of concrete floor, wall, and roof systems, Transcon Steel realizes that with an ever growing shortage of potable water and escilating management costs that water consumption during construction must be curbed.

With the Transcon Steel approach to construction, a Transcon Steel built structure can reduce water consumpion during construction by over 80%. This is achieved through the simple concept that with reduced building loads require reduced foundation requirements. Once the foundation is poured, no other water requirement is necessary for the remaining part of the structure.

After completion of the building, owners have a cool home or office. The requirement of sprinkling the roof with water for cooling is no longer an issue or a cost.

Transcon Steel is honored to work with visionary leaders that see the importance of increasing the regional availability of water and ways to reduce the long-term escilation of the cost of water.

EPS and Oceanic Life - Expanded polystryrene (EPS) has a unique environmental benefit over most other man made materials. For example, coal per cubic foot only produces 15,000 BTU's of energy. Compared to the inceneration of EPS, one cubic foot of EPS produces approximately 18,000 BTU's of energy for the world.

The only bi-product of the inceneration of EPS is water vapor and carbon dioxide. With carbon dioxide as one of the main ingredient that supports oceanic life, this makes Transcon Steel a global provider of environmental zero-impact, full-cycle, building materials.

Forests

Transcon Steel is the wood-free approach to construction. For every 2,000 square foot structure built with wood, one acre of timberland is devastated. With the Transcon Steel product line, approximately six (6) used cars are recycled to build the same structure.

Without change in our approach to building, it is reported by the World Resources Institute that if the current financial incentives and patterns of production are not changed, demand pressure will result in supplies being drawn from the world’s last remaining "frontier forests." The tropical forests of the Amazon and equatorial Africa and the boreal forests of Siberia and Canada will not survive in their current form.

Some of the major benefits to the wood-free approach to building include:

Emissions - reduction of CO2 during wood harvesting

Erosion - natural state growth protecting our soils and habitats

Natural Filtration - better water through undisturbed soil filtration

Land Fills - pre fabricated systems mean no jobsite waste