Decking is made by forming and coating sheet steel.
Steel bar joist roof.
Typically used in non residential construction steel joists and joist girders provide an economical system for supporting floors and roofs.
For floors concrete is typically poured over the decking.
K joists are used typically where shorter span conditions are required.
Steel joists handle loads and span conditions that a tradition wood system cannot typically handle.
Joist girders serve as primary framing members with simple spans to support concentrated loads for a roof or floor system.
Open web steel joists are an engineered truss like construction component used to support loads over short and long spans alike.
Bar joist buildings are often times insulated on the underside of the roof deck to increase the building s energy efficiency.
It is installed above the joists to serve as a base of support for either a roof or a floor.
New millennium produces roof form and composite floor decking as well as specialty profiles dovetail deep deck and bridge deck.
Metal bar joists vary in depths and shapes therefore attaching the insulation to the bar joist building can prove to be limited in comparison to a common metal building.