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- Michael First
- 2005
- 2006
- Brooklyn
- Williamsburg
- Condo
- physician
- Male
- 50
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August 30, 2007
Merits of steel frame construction vs. poured concrete
With all of the recent talk about shoddy construction, I wanted to post a question that reflects me total ignorance about new building construction. Observing all of the next construction, especially in Williamsburg, it seems that approximately half of new buildings are steel frame girder construction and the other half poured concrete. Why does a developer (or is it the architect?) choose one method over the other? Is one method typically cheaper? Lower quality? Given the propensity for cheap construction nowadays, one would think that which ever method was cheaper will be the clearly preferred one.