ArcelorMittal - Steel in Architecture

Constructalia is ArcelorMittal Group's internet portal designed to help engineers and architects and keep them up to date with the use of steel in construction and architecture today. It offers them product assistance and solutions to typical problems.

Steel construction products e-catalogue

Constructalia features the most compact, user friendly and all-inclusive e-catalogue of construction steel products. This regional and international catalogue is sorted by application, type of building, and country where each product is available.

Applications of the steel products featured on the site include:

• Structures (beams, channels, pipes, leg angles and composite beams)
• Floors (steel decking, composite floors and floor plates)
• Roofing (insulated / sandwich panels, noise-reduction steel and weight-reduction steel)
• Facades (steel-ribbed cladding, flat cladding, insulated / sandwich panels, atmospheric corrosion-resistant steel, steel with aluminium-silicon coating, organic-coated steel, cold-rolled steel for enamelling, hot-rolled steel and stainless steel)
• Systems (combination of joists such as HE/IPE type beams, castellated ACB or asymmetrical IFB/SFB type beams with floor or facade elements)
• Civil engineering (sheet-piling, combined walls, tie-back systems, spirel pipes, rail tracks and spiral welded pipes)
• Design of interiors (ceilings, sun breakers and decorative stainless steel)
• Reinforcement (rebar, tie bars and steel fibres)

Each product's data sheet is detailed and includes clear photos of the actual buildings utilising the particular product. Constructalia, in one user-friendly, centralised location, manages the technical and commercial requests about the whole range of steel products and systems sold by the ArcelorMittal group around the world.

Steel case studies

Constructalia enhances its technical offer with a 'case studies' section, where the most prestigious projects involving steel can be found. The objective is to offer 'steel in action', demonstrating its wide range of applications and uses.

Steel construction software

Constructalia offers specially designed software that is free to download, to help with the design and calculations of steel construction. This tool is highly appreciated by engineers, teachers and students.

Constructalia is the largest source of information about international and regional events, prestigious local or international competitions and the latest news from the market. The website also contains both short articles and full featured papers about interesting technical information related to steel (including fire resistance, corrosion and new technologies).

Steel architects

For those interested in knowing more about the architects and their work Constructalia presents interviews with famous architects from different countries. Users can also read about the most interesting books or films related to architecture and steel, highlighting cities and buildings in original and fascinating ways.

Monthly steel newsletter

Constructalia is available in several language versions: English, French, Spanish, German, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese and Italian. Constructalia offers a free monthly newsletter to registered users, which provides all the latest and most interesting information concerning steel construction and architecture.

Sustainability

The future global challenge for the construction industry is finding a sustainable way to meet the world’s growing needs while at the same time limiting the impact of its burdens by drastic improvement of its activities. Because of this challenge Constructalia developed a Sustainable Construction section divided in five themes to feed and improve the debate about sustainable construction and architecture, highlighting the advantages of steel.

Contact centre

In order to assist the users, Constructalia has a contact centre for each different version. The contact centre allows the users to request information, brochures, and technical datasheets for the full product range. With the contact centre, it is as well possible to request quotations for your projects or needs. It can be contacted by phone, fax or e-mail.