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It’s hard to imagine while standing in a building or driving through a parking structure that facilities like these have to support enormous weight loads, and that the most important engineering elements in concrete are largely left unseen. Enter Barton Supply. 

According to Tekla, of the $3.5 trillion spent worldwide on commercial construction, 20 percent goes to waste. That’s $700 billion flushed due to preventable design inaccuracies. Even with computers to work out...

Once you’ve won the construction project, completed the back-slapping, fist bumps and high fives with your team, it’s time to get down to business. You know your final victory lap won’t happen until you’ve completed the project...

Should you care if your construction steel supplier goes to the heavy expense and trouble to become AISC certified? That depends. Do you want your job to proceed efficiently and safely? 

When designing with structural steel, does it have to be all straight runs, angles and joints?

When pondering natural hazard in Colorado, we might think of lightning strikes, violent hailstorms, wind, blizzards, flash floods, meteorites and maybe even Bigfoot. But the number one natural hazard, according to the Colorado Geological Survey, actually comes from the ground. 

Few things cause as much excitement and anxiety as planning a new home from the ground up. It's your chance to create the perfect living space according to your dreams and budget.