structural steel
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- The building was constructed using high-quality structural steel that ensured its durability and strength.
- fabricated structural steel
- structural steel industry
Examples
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And so you you see this as as the structural steel being exposed.
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Structural steel for the catwalks, railings, roof supports, and the clarifier was also corroded.
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I do not see that in the fabricated structural steel business.
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Building demolitions also produce structural steel for recycling.
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The U.S. structural steel industry fabricates approximately five million tons of steel each year.
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The average U.S. structural steel fabricator employs about fifty people.
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In the general building material category, some of the principal items include flooring, timbers, and structural steel.
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We are concerned that, for example, a geographical area may become the focus of imported fabricated structural steel due to construction activity in the area.
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The structural steel fabrication generally sells to one customer at one time, and usually the sale is not repeated.
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On a project as complex as Greenfield South, we had to find a better way to develop every facet of the plant, from the structural steel to the piping systems to the turbines.
Academic text (2010)
Synonyms
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A strong hard metal used to build things like bridges and buildings
Steel parts of a building that form its frame and supports
How Strong
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun phrase's meaning is directly and transparently derived from 'structural' (related to the load-bearing/physical structure) + 'steel' (the metal), so a learner who knows both words can infer it refers to steel used for building/structural purposes. Although slightly technical, the composition follows a standard adjective + noun pattern and is cross-linguistically predictable, so a B1 learner would readily understand it.
Etymology
Structural steel refers to steel shaped into beams and columns to make a building's frame. The word structural shows it is part of the structure, so the phrase means 'steel made to support and hold up buildings'.