Sustainability is at the top of the Clement Windows agenda for product development – and steel is increasingly proving its value for meeting the challenges ahead caused by rapid global warming.

Undoubtedly, steel's reputation is making a comeback as a viable construction material for all types of fenestration. Its green credentials are second to none, and here are a number of facts that support this argument for specifying steel windows on your next project:

• Iron is the most abundant element by mass on Earth. There is about 1,920,000,000,000,000,000,000 tonnes of it beneath our feet.

• Every single year, 440 million tonnes of steel are recycled across the world. This is the equivalent of recycling 150 Eiffel Towers every day.

• All new steel is made with a significant recycled content. The modern steelmaking process requires it, and it is not possible to produce steel without it. The average recycled content of structural steel used in the UK is 60%. Clement’s steel windows are above the industry norm at 100% recycled content.

• A typical major steel producer will recycle about 3 million tonnes of steel scrap each year in the UK, saving CO2 emissions equivalent to those produced by almost a million households.

• Research with the UK demolition industry shows 99% of steel is reused or recycled at the end of the lstructure's life. This means steel specified today is very unlikely ever to become waste.

• Steel has always been manufactured offsite using standardised components. As such, it delivers the benefits of modern methods of construction such as zero waste, speed, high quality, repeatability, reduced cost and improved health and safety.

• 93% of most European steel works' waste and by-products are beneficially reused.

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