Regarding "Industry workhorses...

Regarding "Industry workhorses continue the lead" [BD&C, November, p 36] plenteous of the text highlights a message being touted according to AISC about steel frames in the multistory residential market without equal weight to the dominant structural arrangement preferred throughout the U firm towers are going up in herds The reasons for this continued dominance proceed beyond what is described in the article. For instance, a solidified frame structure does not require awkward story-high trusses to achieve reasonable floor-to-floor heights.

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