Galvanized Steel and Sustainable Construction

Solutions for a circular economy

Galvanized steel can provide innovative solutions that optimise durability and facilitate circularity of steel structures and components. These solutions can be easily implemented using this well-established and simple method of protecting steel.

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Make

Use

Reuse

Remake

Recycle

Make

Galvanizing is an efficient dip process – giving the highest level of protection for steel. Galvanizing of steel products maximises their durability, reuse and recycling.

Use

Galvanized steel is completely covered with a durable coating that can last the lifetime of the component – avoiding resource use for replacement or maintenance.

Reuse

Galvanized steel is robust and easily dismantled for reuse in multiple life cycles. The coating stays with the steel component in its next life cycle.

Remake

Galvanized steel products can be regalvanized and put back into service – avoiding production of new steel. Repurposing of galvanized steel products is often possible without regalvanizing.

Recycle

Steel and zinc are recycled together – without loss of properties – if the long life of galvanized steel eventually ends.

This guide explains how the galvanizing industry is moving forwards - keeping galvanized steel at the forefront of solutions for tackling climate change and delivering the circular economy that is now firmly established in both policy and practice.

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Case studies

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Thinking Ahead – Repurposing of galvanized steel

Galvanized steel components are standard solutions in a wide range of applications. In this innovative example, BeL - Sozietät für Architektur anticipated a viable next use phase by selecting components from a modular galvanized steel formwork system that would otherwise be used during concrete construction.

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Designed for deconstruction - Fraunhofer IWKS

The Fraunhofer IWKS (Institute for Materials Recycling and Resource Strategies) is at the forefront of research into the responsible use of natural resources – based on the principle that resources should be used but not consumed.

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Garsington Opera – Demountable pavilion

Garsington Opera’s move to Wormsley, a lush English pastoral estate between London and Oxford, has significantly upgraded their facilities in line with the expectations of 21st Century opera goers. The new pavilion offers superb acoustics and a perfect setting in which to experience opera performances of the very highest quality.

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