{"id":424,"date":"2018-03-15T12:00:15","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T12:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bestgdl.com\/eng\/?p=424"},"modified":"2018-04-13T01:41:24","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T01:41:24","slug":"use-and-consumption-of-steel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestgdl.com\/eng\/use-and-consumption-of-steel\/","title":{"rendered":"The use and consumption of prestressing steel"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The use and consumption of prestressing steel in North America (includes Canada, the United States and Mexico)<\/h3>\n<p>A couple of graphs (extracted from the PTI Tonnage Report 2016) that show how the consumption of prestressing steel in North America is distributed.<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to popular belief, only 7% of prestressing steel was used in bridges in 2016, while buildings and floor slabs (foundations and industrial floors) accounted for 85% of total consumption. And while the use in bridges and geotechnics decreased from 2015 to 2016, in buildings it increased substantially, as well as in floor slabs.<\/p>\n<p>According to the same source, the consumption of prestressing steel in the region was:<\/p>\n<p>2014\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 164,253 tons<\/p>\n<p>2015\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 174,085 tons\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 + 5.99%<\/p>\n<p>2016\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 189,995 tons \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 + 9.14%<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1078 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/bestgdl.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-09-at-7.20.32-PM-1024x659.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"659\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bestgdl.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-09-at-7.20.32-PM-1024x659.png 1024w, https:\/\/bestgdl.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-09-at-7.20.32-PM-300x193.png 300w, https:\/\/bestgdl.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-09-at-7.20.32-PM-768x494.png 768w, https:\/\/bestgdl.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-09-at-7.20.32-PM.png 1718w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1079 size-large aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/bestgdl.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-09-at-7.20.42-PM-1024x786.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"786\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bestgdl.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-09-at-7.20.42-PM-1024x786.png 1024w, https:\/\/bestgdl.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-09-at-7.20.42-PM-300x230.png 300w, https:\/\/bestgdl.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-09-at-7.20.42-PM-768x590.png 768w, https:\/\/bestgdl.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-09-at-7.20.42-PM.png 1672w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The use and consumption of prestressing steel in North America (includes Canada, the United States and Mexico). A couple of graphs (extracted from the PTI Tonnage Report 2016) that show how the consumption of prestressing steel in North America is distributed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[47,46],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestgdl.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestgdl.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestgdl.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestgdl.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestgdl.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/bestgdl.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1186,"href":"https:\/\/bestgdl.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions\/1186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestgdl.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestgdl.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestgdl.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestgdl.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}