Steel for Life

Steel for Life is a new market development programme designed to ensure that steel maintains and develops its leading position as the preferred supplier of framing solutions for key sectors of the market like multi-storey buildings and single storey industrial buildings.

Steel for life’s key purpose is to communicate and disseminate the advantages that steel offers to the construction sector which make it the material of choice for a wide range of buildings, bridges and other structures.

This industry-wide approach provides significant benefits to clients, specifiers and main contractors. By working together as an integrated supply chain for the delivery of steel-framed solutions, the constructional steelwork sector will continue to innovate, educate specifiers and clients, and market the significant benefits of steel in construction.

Steel for Life was launched in 2016 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of BCSA, with funding provided by sponsors from the whole steel supply chain.

Headline Sponsors


ArcelorMittal is the world's leading steel and mining company, with a presence in 60 countries and an industrial footprint in 19 countries. Guided by a philosophy to produce safe, sustainable steel, we are the leading supplier of quality steel in the major global steel markets including automotive, construction, household appliances and packaging, with world-class research and development and outstanding distribution networks. For us, steel is the fabric of life, as it is at the heart of the modern world from railways to cars and washing machines. We are actively researching and producing steel-based technologies and solutions that make many of the products and components people use in their everyday lives more energy efficient. In 2014, ArcelorMittal had revenues of US$79.3 billion and crude steel production of 93.1 million tonnes, while own iron ore production reached 63.9 million tonnes.	Barrett Steel is the UK’s largest independent steel stockholder. The group’s four divisions: General Steels; Engineering Steel; Tubes and Energy Products operate from locations across the UK, Ireland and the US. Serving customers worldwide they strategically work together in a forward-thinking philosophy. Dedicated staff act as customers’ one point of contact, whatever the product or service. Barrett Steel continues to invest in people, plant and products to ensure our ideal placement to meet customers’ requirements. Barrett Steel holds international accreditations including ISO 9001:2008, ISO 14001:2004 and CE approvals up to Execution Class 4 in BS EN 1090-1:2009.