The New York City Buildings Department now recognizes structural designs using high strength Grade 100 concrete reinforcing steels. Through issuance of Buildings Bulletin 2015-036, Irvine, Calif.-based MMFX Steel Corp. of America notes, the city accepts designs employing the 100,000-psi yield strength of ASTM A1035/A1035M-15 rebar. The document clears the way for MMFX high strength ChrõmX rebar in a market ushering a wave of active or proposed tower projects whose slender profiles invite reinforced concrete design—owing especially to stiffness characteristics tempering sway.
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