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Un t A MB S an + ce /# Ads 3 & OPHETIC pj ht ;' P61 apimeneini it iO ids ura is 4 Anipabanes oep e 44 * 3 CiISKYS C ¢+ o oo Nesn nreumamin * Frould casily and safely be increased' to 18,000 pounds, and that through a, *| standard spcecification other apprec--| iable economiecs could be ceffected without sacrificing the smallest de--; gree of safcty, ~ _ Movement Meets Favor --~ Such a departure from the cstab~ 1 TWP AMUCHYO! APFUIHE UL CHT Not content with promulgition of Loo Lo ons eompored ol leadi2§ | the Srandard Specification, the Tabri-- United St::twamn'd k is the cators, working through their In-- t turss: M' p ._"__:~"| stitute have recently adopted the tolthc dechil .m'di al"tcd" tributic Code of Standard Pl_'m\ct, which is Sinéc Ihe } .h t expected to work still further econ-- nto W':; it m'm""' m!:xe_z_by standardizing the manoner n":n;' friener: edmthat T uctursi| in which structural stcel is bought :;l ':."w','e of do:ng nore and sold. T\'\c Code of Practice is work thin war hring wiven fln mes | af Crtaice aial ind Canl m neers* specifications, -- Investigating! ae ant ait, The possibility for effecting 'p_.'lhe rdauoubcttuo.bu)q and sell. lable tC in+ in stech con.:| * for years--and conifusion is ¢x-- struction, the Institute determined| P°N®TC in ny industry, 2s that the bakic unit Mress of 16(!)01 .!mprqvtd methods of fabrication, pounds per square inch, which was stimulation of research into the Led 'as ."mm .'"". by ihe| pbpsca!.amj chemical propertigs. of m"il:h' abgt 1887, wis entirely oo steel, scientific study of the action Tow. . It wat de.ttrn'med thit the] of stecl members under stress and old unit, adopted when stcel was | many_octher phases of the indusigy pfod\kcz by the Dessemer process,; "Tt PONF givem encotragement snd could casily and safely be increased? CORsideration by the Institute, In to 18,000 pounds, and wmh a, the final analysis the public, repré-- standard specification apprec. | senied by the--taxpayer and the own» iable economics could be el«td_::':l' t?-'bm:gw o ;:n:: struc-- j iLcing ( stee! enters, wi «& prin-- :,::':: ::;:'. the snouliont <b~] cipal benefactor of this lfitvly'pgfl _ -- b everyone who has #23y contact with Movement Meets Favor -- 'tM vast sckem*-- of making, 42bri-- l'::? &A dfvggut_g,,hom the u'-l_b' ca3ling, m:'r; or paring for struc» practice_of more than thirty tural steel will participate. ' | Wider. Use of Steel. & . Structural steel is not to be cons % 'ered as somethimg apprria:ning L _ ciy to the skrscraper. Nor is it T o8 Td § 14 V LC It, EWC ECV EC EECCIE & WR Nn ' kh ine.t,-- **2," «_' ike ts wor at at imnebuabte thitr The next ° step in residential construction may hbe steel frame throughont, wood be-- ° t the United States are today faver> whoy Peeeet Hrerd iye Seeuites-- What does this accomplishment of the Iastitute mean in dollars . and cents? -- The architect of the Cleve-- land Board of Edutation has esti-- mated that he can save the taxpayers {| of that city $125,000 annually on the single item of structural steel costs for school buildings by reason of the greater usefuiness of steel as devel-- oped--by the Specifieation. --Use of -- the Specification will 'mean_ a sav-- * wng of about $2000,000 annually on || py 3 vate copsituction in -m«hmm ho s spprome, .. * reoys.." L. .. 5 "{f third of the structural st«l tornage || the aggregate. it does poit the way, howevcr, to a means of so cont serving and intelligently using wood that there will be atways a suppiy adequate to meet every building need. 200 looked for in many of them during ing employed in the decorative por-- tions, such as inside trim, foors, doors, blinds, and outside trim, and possibly -- weatherboarding where America's skyscrapers are some-- thing more than monuments to busi-- ness and symbols of progress. They are prophets--forecasting less spec-- tacular use of steel, but uses which will be directly shared by the farmer in the remotest homsestead, the vil-- lage dweller and the owner of the palatial city or suburban residence. oq'ued construttion which the In-- stitute's Standard Specification-- as-- sured, made the hudlhf of the Specification -- comparatively -- casy, Such cities as Los Angeles, Buffalo, New Orleans, Boston, Baitimore, Detroit, St. Louis, Washington, D. C,, and many others were quick 10 see in it a logical development in steel construction, and wrote the Specification into thels building ctodes. SGome of the largest cities brick, concrete or stucco are not used. This does not mean that the use of wood is going to decline in years did not present the difficulties that its 'gtomulntm u"hxt. h':: antici Ihe new day of steel is dawning yA# --Agl bfy Th Ayiar<»*