Extend the life of your steel construction elements and reduce environmental impact with sustainable solutions from SGS.
Do you want to extend the life of your steel construction elements while protecting the environment? Our sustainable solutions for reusing steel elements can help. At SGS, we are committed to promoting circular practices and reducing environmental impact. Our team of experts is ready to guide you along the path to a more sustainable future.
The reuse of structures and building components is becoming an increasingly common trend. Steel is 100% recyclable and can be reused in various ways:
Steel is ideal for direct reuse, and from an environmental viewpoint, it is more beneficial to reuse entire structures or elements than to remelt steel from recycling scrap. Often, there is already a lot of knowledge about the original steel construction, and usually, the properties of the steel barely change during reuse.
SGS was involved in the development of the Dutch steel reuse protocol NTA 8713:2023 – Reuse of Structural Steelwork. This Dutch Technical Agreement contains guidelines for drawing up an inspection document with all the necessary information for the safe reuse of structural steel. The purpose of this NTA is to facilitate the reuse of structural steel and to reduce the environmental impact of steel structures. The NTA describes the procedure to determine the geometric and material properties of steel profiles that have been dismantled from a donor structure and reused in another structure.