Steel Building Industry Glossary
Normally, if you're not living and working in the steel building industry all the time, it can be difficult to understand many of the big words, acronyms, and abbreviations. Unfortunately, this can also make it difficult to understand what the manufacturer needs to know and what exactly it is you're paying for.
We help you translate this sometimes seemingly foreign language with our easy to use steel building industry glossary. To find the right definition, just click the letters below!
Listings starting with the letter 'A'.
| Accessories | Steel building products that are not included as part of the basic steel building system. |
| ACI | American Concrete Institute |
| Agricultural Building | A building used for the storing of farm equipment, livestock or other agricultural items. |
| AISC | American Institute of Steel Construction |
| AISI | American Iron and Steel Institute |
| Aluminum Coated Steel | Steel coated with aluminum to help prevent corrosion. |
| Anchor Bolt Plan | A drawing showing the diameter, location and projection of all anchor bolts for the components of a building. |
| Anchor Bolts | Steel bolts that are used to anchor members of a steel building system to the foundation or other support. |
| ANSI | American National Standards Institute. |
| Approval Documents | Approval documents include plans, design calculations, and other specified information. |
| Architectural Drawing | A technical drawing of a building. |
| ASCE | American Society of Civil Engineering |
| ASD | Allowable Stress Design. |
| Assembly | The group of mutually dependent and compatible components or sub-assemblies of steel building components. |
| Astragal | A closure between the two leaves of a double swing or double slide door. |
| Automatic Crane | A crane system which automatically operates through a preset series of cycles when activated. |
| Automatic Welding | A welding operation performed by a machine in order to make a continuous, unbroken weld. |
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